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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Extreme climate impacts are increasing, and youth eco-anxiety is rising, while teachers who address climate change and its inequitable impacts often work in isolation. To address this need, this project will host annual, expenses-paid Climate Equity Institutes at the Schoodic Institute campus for high school teachers. Participants will explore equitable pedagogy, hear talks on the global and psychological impacts of climate change, and engage in guided field trips and independent inquiry.
SPARK is a collaborative initiative led by three mission-driven nonprofit organizations, BootUp, TERC, and Fun Zone Reading Club, working together to increase access to high-quality STEM and Computer Science education for children and families experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, California.
A design-based research project studying how best to integrate data practices into high school science, particularly biology.
This study aims to develop and refine a new data collection methodology called Contemplative CRiT Collage (CCC). Its intention is to aid in the mending of graduate students of color with disabilities who encounter negative experiences in STEM
DSAIY is engaging, fun, timely, and attainable for ALL students, including those with no coding or statistics background.
Engaging Latinx parents as research partners, to leverage informal family engineering activities that boost preschoolers’ executive function skills.
This study aims to initiate a new research agenda focused on the educational experiences of disabled undergraduate Latinxs in STEM, specifically those pursuing engineering degrees.
Doing Math with Families is a mathematics professional development program that empowers families and caregivers to support children’s math learning through games, workshops, and community leadership while building pathways into education careers.
Doing the Math with Paraeducators is developing, implementing, refining, and researching a mathematics professional development program for paraeducators, K-3.
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 “falling through the cracks”.