This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports the development of a technology-rich integrated geoscience and computer science curriculum module focused on volcanic risks and hazards in Hawaii. The key products and services to be delivered through this $999,817 award include: The co-design of a curriculum module that integrates indigenous Hawaiian oral histories and lived experiences of volcanic eruptions with...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $299,925 to Utah State University (USU) to develop integrated computational thinking and science curriculum for elementary students on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. The project involves a research-practice partnership between USU researchers and local Molokai teachers to co-design curricular units that integrate the FOSS science modules with computing and computational thinking...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $653,723 project grant under its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program to the University of Illinois. The 4-year project will develop and test a professional development model that empowers high school science teachers to adapt curriculum materials to integrate students' knowledge and community resources. Working with education researchers, teachers, scientists, and community organizations, the project teams will go through cycles of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and implementation of culturally relevant computer science (CS) education for indigenous middle school students in grades 6-8. The $300,000 award to the Tides Center, a nonprofit organization, will fund three main objectives over a two-year period from January 2025 to December 2026: (1) culturally adapting existing CS content to create a one-semester foundational course...
This $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports a research-practice partnership between New Mexico State University, the New Mexico Public Education Department, and other state-level organizations. The goal is to understand how to prepare high school teachers in rural, diverse communities to effectively teach a culturally responsive computer science curriculum that meets the...
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 $1,299,941 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the Institute for Future Intelligence (IFI) and the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR) to develop and test an integrated STEM curriculum focused on agricultural technology (agtech) in Hawaii. The project aims to connect traditional Hawaiian aquaculture practices with modern smart farming technologies and data science. Key products and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $662,973 provides funding to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to collaboratively design and implement a computer science-rich curriculum for middle school students that is grounded in sustainable food production in local community gardens. The project aims to leverage an established rural research-practice partnership to generate opportunities for students to engage in computer...
The Santa Clara County Office of Education was awarded a $924,479 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant will support the "Culturally-Responsive Teaching for Supporting Positive Computer Science Identities among Latinx Girls" project from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. Under this award, the Santa Clara County Office of Education will implement culturally responsive teaching methods to support...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $849,931, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award aims to support middle school teachers in enacting an integrated science, engineering, and computational modeling curriculum unit, and to understand how teachers customize computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned curricular materials for their specific school and classroom contexts. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program award of $1,609,724 to Teachers College Columbia University aims to co-develop and implement a locally relevant and integrated computer science curriculum that centers the lived experiences of rural Hawaiian students and communities. The project seeks to understand and engage local educational needs to create opportunities for students to learn in ways that make schooling meaningful and relevant to their experiences, culture, community, and identity. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research team will work with educators to iteratively co-design and evaluate curricular materials that support youth in developing strong connections to STEM learning and foster their future engagement and interest in STEM. The project will also develop locally responsive measures of educational success, student sense of belonging, and agency in schooling to gauge the impact of the curriculum over three years of middle school.