This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program provides $1,197,134 to the University of Massachusetts for a research-practice partnership studying the impacts of and impediments to diffusing an equity-centered computer science curriculum across 32 elementary schools in the Springfield Public School District through 2025. The University will partner with Springfield Public Schools to employ a teacher-co-designed curriculum integrating computer science...
This four-year, $1,779,377 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to scale inclusive computing pathways through a collaborative effort between Digital Promise Global and eight diverse school districts across the United States. The partnership will create a professional learning community for district administrators and instructors to develop skills and support systems for implementing cumulative, consistent, and...
This Project Grant award for $298,528 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a High School Research Practitioner Partnership (HS-RPP) between Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the New York City Public Schools (NYCPS). The goal of this 2-year project is to understand the challenges facing K-12 educators in increasing their computational expertise and to provide...
This $849,931 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to understand how middle school teachers can effectively customize integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum materials for their classrooms. The project aims to develop a better understanding of the supports teachers need to adapt STEM+CS curricular materials to different classroom, school, and community contexts. Key research objectives...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,300,000 to the University of Virginia to develop low-cost, adaptable physical computing tools such as robots to provide equitable opportunities for elementary and middle school students to learn computer science (CS) skills and concepts. The project aims to investigate how these educational robots can help students develop CS understanding and executive functioning skills, while...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $997,575 to support the development and implementation of elementary computer science (CS) pathways in rural school districts in the Pacific Northwest. The key objectives are to: (a) further develop a theory of action for elementary CS pathway development in rural communities, (b) advance progress toward locally relevant elementary CS pathways...
This Project Grant award of $943,061 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to address gender equity and diversity issues in community college computing programs. The University of Colorado Boulder, in partnership with the National Center for Women & IT and the County College of Morris, will adapt existing research-based resources, develop new resources, and facilitate professional development for faculty at nine community colleges. The goal is to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a partnership between a rural school district and two community organizations to collaboratively design an innovative middle school computer science-rich curriculum focused on sustainable food production in local community gardens. The $662,973 award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027, aims to generate opportunities for rural students to engage in computer science...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is supporting the early establishment of a Research Practice Partnership (RPP) focused on designing, developing, and piloting instructional materials that integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into PreK-8 classrooms. The $288,749 award to Katabasis, Inc., a non-profit organization, is funding the development of a game-based learning platform called "AgriCoding"...
This Project Grant of $308,277 was awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Digital Promise Global, a non-profit organization, to develop a professional development approach using a library of vetted video cases. The goal is to build elementary teachers' capacity for inclusive computational thinking (CT) integration within their core instruction in subjects like math, science, and language arts. The project will partner with urban and rural school...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will establish and study a new Research Practice Partnership (RPP) between the University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, and Aurora Public Schools. The primary goals are to: 1) foster the success of computing educators at the elementary level, enabling them to effectively teach computing concepts and practices, and 2) explore how the RPP supports the integration of computing into upper elementary classrooms. Over the 2-year, $242,667 project, the team will co-design and implement exemplar computing units using the micro:bit platform, while also collecting data on the impact on teacher capacity and sense of belonging. The project aims to produce two exemplar computing units, increase teacher leadership, and provide insights on RPP formation to the broader computing education research community.