CEEE is proud to announce that one of its outstanding projects and two of our curriculum developers have been featured in a national spotlight by the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) on their monthly “Data Literacy and Data Science Education” spotlight.

CADRE recognized CEEE's Hilary Peddicord, alongside her co-PIs Kathryn Semmens, Amy Busey, Keri Maxfield, and Jessica Sickler, for their project Building Insights Through Observation (BIO): Researching Arts-based Methods for Teaching and Learning with Data. The team has designed this educational program to use accessible tools from NOAA, Science On a Sphere, to help students develop critical thinking skills and practices required to effectively make meaning from authentic scientific data.

This distinguished educational community also recognized the Data Puzzles team under PI and curriculum developer Jonathan Griffith for their project “Learning How to Help Middle Grades Science Teachers Integrate Data Exploration and Sensemaking in the Classroom". This project builds on the existing Data Puzzles instructional framework and leverages real-world climate science data in structured “puzzle” lessons and open-ended investigations to build teacher capacity and student sense-making with data. 

We congratulate Hilary Peddicord and the Data Puzzles team under Jonathan Griffith for this distinguished recognition for their hard work!