This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) aims to support rural elementary teachers and administrators in incorporating locally and culturally significant, place-based phenomena into their science teaching. The $692,653 award to the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance will fund a 3-year professional learning system to build the pedagogical design capacity of 3rd-5th grade teachers from schools in Maine, Montana, and Hawaii. The project seeks to understand how rural educators use professional development to prioritize students' communities and cultures in scientific sense-making through adaptation of local phenomena. By investigating individual teacher change and the unique interactions between teachers, students, administrators, and researchers, the project team aims to uncover common mechanisms and diverse, place-specific implementation pathways for adopting phenomena-driven science teaching in rural schools.
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