Our projects and research shape the STEM education field by introducing innovative curricula and improving student access to STEM.

We support more than 60 active projects every year, and our high-quality, innovative research is based on the understanding that for STEM, real-world application matters. We inspire, motivate, and create life-long learners by helping students connect what they are taught in the classroom to the world around them.


These projects and our research are designed to encompass a wide range of subjects and disciplines within STEM education and teaching methods to expand accessibility for all eager minds.

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Doing the Math with Paraeducators: Enhancing and Expanding and Sustaining a Professional Development Model in PreK to Grade 3 Math Classrooms
Doing the Math with Paraeducators: Enhancing and Expanding and Sustaining a Professional Development Model in PreK to Grade 3 Math Classrooms

Doing the Math with Paraeducators is developing, implementing, refining, and researching a mathematics professional development program for paraeducators, K-3.

EdGE
EdGE

EdGE is a team of educators, designers, and researchers who design and study digital games and environments to learn how to engage ALL learners in STEM, especially those who are โ€œfalling through the cracksโ€.

ExIST
ExIST

The ExIST Project is a teacher professional development model that supports middle school biology teachers to adapt curriculum by integrating game design to enhance biological systems learning and skills in systems thinking from constructionist and participatory perspectives.

Exploring Data Science Through the Lens of Civics Education
Exploring Data Science Through the Lens of Civics Education

A research and development project that explores the potential for engaging students in investigations of real-world civic datasets in ways that align with and support middle school social studies content.

Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics
Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics

A place for educators to reflect on and discuss equity, access, identity, and agency in the elementary mathematics classroom.

Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy (IDATA)
Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy (IDATA)

IDATA engages middle and high school students in designing software to make astronomy accessible to people with blindness or visual impairments.

Institute for Meta-Synthesis: A Practicum through the Lens of STEM Equity and Inclusion Literature (IMS-SEIL)
Institute for Meta-Synthesis: A Practicum through the Lens of STEM Equity and Inclusion Literature (IMS-SEIL)

IMS-SEIL is an institute on qualitative meta-synthesis methods for STEM education graduate students, postdocs, early career researchers, and faculty.

Investigations Center for Curriculum and Professional Development
Investigations Center for Curriculum and Professional Development

A project that developed and now supports Investigations, a focused coherent, and rigorous K-5 mathematics curriculum that places making sense of mathematics at the heart of the work, for students and for teachers.

Investigations Professional Development
Investigations Professional Development

Professional Development that has supported more than 35,000 educators around the globe, with in-person workshops, online courses, and implementation support.

Learning from Student Thinking: Building a Dataset of Diverse Mathematical Reasoning from Additive to Multiplicative Reasoning (AMR Pilot)
Learning from Student Thinking: Building a Dataset of Diverse Mathematical Reasoning from Additive to Multiplicative Reasoning (AMR Pilot)

AMR Pilot partners with grades 3-5 educators to better understand how neurodivergent students develop and communicate mathematical reasoning in order to build a public dataset to advance research and improve support for every learner.