Current Projects
Balfour Scholars Program
The Balfour Scholars Program is a free program for high school juniors designed to help cultivate student academic and career development and minimize misperceptions that prevent students from successfully graduating from college.
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Global Education Initiatives
In collaboration with the School of Global and International Studies, we have developed programs of various length that promote global mindedness and global competencies for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, and faculty members.
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Educating for Environmental Change
This project brings together middle school and high school educators to learn data-driven classroom lessons prepared by IU faculty and participate in hands-on activities focused on climate change and its impact on their communities.
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Workplace Simulation Projects
These projects synergize collaborations between schools and industry by utilizing industry-aligned tasks and STEM professional volunteers in classrooms. WSPs actively engage students in problem-based learning and critical thinking skills and enhance student STEM content knowledge, awareness, and interest.
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iSTEAM
Sponsored by the Center for Rural Engagment, the iSTEAM (Integrating Art Into STEM) program brings together middle school art and STEM teachers to explore connections with the goal of designing and implementing hands-on, inquiry-based activities for their students.
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Indiana Effective Leaders Academy
IELA is an initiative developed to strengthen the skills and relationships of public school leaders. School principals in high performing schools and low performing schools are coming together to learn new skills geared at improving educational outcomes and sustaining high quality instruction long term.
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Natural Wonderers
Natural Wonderers is a focused effort to address the academic needs of middle schoolers, grades 4-9, in rural southern Indiana by enhancing the abilities of teachers to use educational technologies to foster scientific investigations, explanations and evidence-based argumentation in regard to Earth and life topics.
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Assessing the Structure of Knowledge in Teaching Mathematics
This project will investigate the structure of elementary teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) as it is held by novice or experienced teachers, as it is learned in the context of teacher preparation and practice, and as it is used for instruction and to support student learning.
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