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Join a 2025-2026 cohort of Front Range middle school science teachers to learn about innovative ways to bring authentic, regionally-relevant earth and climate science data in your classrooms using Data Puzzles! Led by educators, scientists, and data experts from the University of Colorado Boulder, this professional learning community is part of a research project that aims to understand how middle school teachers learn to use data sensemaking practices to support their students explore and explain climate phenomena!

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If you are selected to participate, you will attend a 3-day professional learning workshop with the CU Boulder Data Puzzles team from June 9-11, 2025 and second workshop in summer 2026. Participating teachers will be expected to implement a Data Puzzle lesson with their students and be available for a onehour post-implementation interview. You will also be invited to have researchers conduct classroom observations and anonymous student surveys, with the agreement of your principal, students, and parents. If selected, you will be compensated $30/hour and choose to receive two non-degree seeking credits for Continuing Education ($90/each) or be compensated an additional $180.

Interested? Complete this application.

Contact: jonathan.griffith@colorado.edu