Project Grant U411C190254

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, and Aurora Public Schools. The $238,011 project aims to establish a new Research Practice Partnership (RPP) focused on fostering the success of elementary computing educators. Over two years, the project will: Understand how the RPP influences elementary STEM teachers' capacity...

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 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 of $997,575 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a research-practice partnership to develop and implement elementary computer science (CS) education pathways in rural school districts in the Pacific Northwest. The partnership, which includes the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Bootup Professional Development, the Idaho STEM Action Center, the Oregon Department of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $889,785 to Cornell University from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023 to integrate computational thinking into English language arts and math curricula for grades K-5. The goal is to build an onramp to computer science education for younger students. Cornell will support research design, analysis, and project management. Additionally, $50,000 of the award...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $550,786 to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls to improve computer science (CS) education in high schools across Western Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota. Over three years, the project will engage 30 STEM teachers in a 7-week summer research program focused on integrating interdisciplinary CS research - including high-performance...

This $509,388 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop and study approaches for equipping 4th and 5th grade general and special education teachers with effective instructional strategies to teach computer science (CS) to a broad range of learners with disabilities. The project involves professional development cycles where teacher teams will learn about inclusive CS practices and then implement them in the...

This $564,135 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to empower middle school teachers to integrate computational thinking (CT) into science instruction. The three-year project will: Co-design and test 28 new CT-integrated science activities with teachers, and provide CT in science professional development to 84 teachers. Iteratively co-design and test an AI-powered support tool called TRACES that will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a four-year, $565,771 Project Grant under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to San Francisco State University (SFSU) and WestEd to investigate effective design and implementation strategies for computer science (CS) teacher preparation programs aimed at increasing the number of middle school CS teachers from underrepresented groups. The project will involve working with participants in SFSU's CS teacher preparation program to identify...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program (CFDA 47.076) will pilot a curriculum to prepare pre-service teachers in understanding the fundamentals of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential teaching applications. The $199,996 award to Michigan State University will examine the impact of this curriculum on developing pre-service teachers' competencies, including their...