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Initial Publication Date: March 16, 2015
SERC has an extensive portfolio of projects that have been created, developed, and implemented in collaboration with many partners. Learn more about many of our current and past projects using the browse below.
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- Career Support for Educators 4 matches Focus on supporting educators in their careers. This includes pre-service and in-service professional development for k-12 teachers, support for college educators aimed at different career stages and elements like leadership development.
- Changing Education Systems 5 matches Focus on how to make positive change in education systems. This includes departmental change, institutional change, as well as other systemic change across institutions and disciplines.
- Connecting STEM Research to Education 1 match Focuses on bringing current STEM research practice and knowledge into education. This includes research experiences for student such as field work, CURE's and summer research experiences (like REU's). It also includes strategies and resources for bringing current research literature, practices and knowledge into the classroom and informal science communication.
- Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind 4 matches Focuses on developing students' ability to think and act with disciplinary expertise. This encompasses concepts like systems thinking, quantitative reasoning, field-based learning, spatial and temporal thinking, data visualization and manipulation.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice 5 matches Focuses on one or more dimensions of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice (DEIJ). This encompasses a wide range of topics including anti-racism, accessibility, ethics, and broadening access to education.
- Engaging Students with Communities 1 match Focus on connecting students and education processes with broader communities and civic issues.
- Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges 2 matches Focus on grand challenge problems that require multiple disciplinary strategies. This includes issues like climate change and the interconnected issues of food, energy and water. The solutions integrate STEM-informed approaches as well as wisdom from the social sciences, arts, humanities and other ways of knowing.
- Network and Community Building 4 matches Focus on supporting the development and nurturing of networks of individuals. This includes community visioning efforts, supporting communities of practices, and understanding and supporting the growth of networks.
- Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches 4 matches Focuses on one or more dimensions of how educational experiences are structured. This encompass topics such as curriculum design, informal education strategies, universal design for learning, and specific classroom approaches. It includes both educational research and applied practice. (Includes simple materials development.)
- Supporting Student Success 4 matches Focus on how to support students across their full education career. This includes fundamental educational access issues, attending to the whole student, academic and professional skill development, and facilitating the transition from education to career and citizenship.
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Professional Development: A focus on putting together opportunities for project participants to learn new skills or content related to the goals of the project. This can include activities such as synchronous or asynchronous events, self-paced materials, and creating an enduring record of activities for use after the end of project funding.
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C-ChanGe
The Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe) project works toward a vision of the future where all people at each stage of their career experience academic geoscience as a safe and welcoming environment where they feel empowered to learn and contribute without stifling their identities, and the community recognizes contributions from everyone. SERC leads the professional development of 2 cohorts of faculty change agents empowered to work in their own context to make successive, incremental changes, leading to positive cultural shifts within their home departments with the support of a community of practice made up of local and national peers. The project also raises the visibility of the many other groups working towards an inclusive geoscience discipline through a web-based network to support awareness, recognition, and connectivity of national partner projects working on geoscience cultural change.
The Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe) project works toward a vision of the future where all people at each stage of their career experience academic geoscience as a safe and welcoming environment where they feel empowered to learn and contribute without stifling their identities, and the community recognizes contributions from everyone. SERC leads the professional development of 2 cohorts of faculty change agents empowered to work in their own context to make successive, incremental changes, leading to positive cultural shifts within their home departments with the support of a community of practice made up of local and national peers. The project also raises the visibility of the many other groups working towards an inclusive geoscience discipline through a web-based network to support awareness, recognition, and connectivity of national partner projects working on geoscience cultural change.
Project Focus: Changing Education Systems, Network and Community Building
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development, Project Management/Implementation
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development, Project Management/Implementation
NC-FEW
NC-Few is community and hub to support the emergence of interdisciplinary educational efforts focused on food, energy, and water systems in a wide array of educational contexts. SERC is working with NC-FEW leadership in developing virtual and in-person events and evaluating the project's impact and outcomes.
NC-Few is community and hub to support the emergence of interdisciplinary educational efforts focused on food, energy, and water systems in a wide array of educational contexts. SERC is working with NC-FEW leadership in developing virtual and in-person events and evaluating the project's impact and outcomes.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges
SERC Role: Evaluation, Professional Development, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development, Community Building/Organization, Event Development/Facilitation, Materials Development/Review, Organizational Backbone, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Evaluation, Professional Development, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development, Community Building/Organization, Event Development/Facilitation, Materials Development/Review, Organizational Backbone, Product Dissemination
Math You Need - Majors
The Math You Need for Earth Science Majors provides online, student-centered, math modules with a geoscience context aimed at strenghthening quantitative skills of majors-level geoscience students. SERC co-leads this project through web hosting, development of teaching modules, and workshop design and facilitation.
The Math You Need for Earth Science Majors provides online, student-centered, math modules with a geoscience context aimed at strenghthening quantitative skills of majors-level geoscience students. SERC co-leads this project through web hosting, development of teaching modules, and workshop design and facilitation.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Event Development/Facilitation, Content Expertise:Geoscience, Website Hosting and Development, Project Management/Implementation
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Event Development/Facilitation, Content Expertise:Geoscience, Website Hosting and Development, Project Management/Implementation
Using Data in the Classroom
This site provides information and discussion for educators and resource developers interested in effective teaching methods and pedagogical approaches for using data in the classroom. SERC developed this site drawing from a series of workshops and sessions in 2002 and 2003.
This site provides information and discussion for educators and resource developers interested in effective teaching methods and pedagogical approaches for using data in the classroom. SERC developed this site drawing from a series of workshops and sessions in 2002 and 2003.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data
SERC Role: Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
InTeGrate
InTeGrate is a STEM-Talent Expansion Program facilitating a large, diverse community of practice in learning about teaching and collaborating for a sustainable future. As the project leadership and hub, SERC organizes and leads participants in materials development, implementation programs, workshops, webinars and project leadership in support of the community of practice needs and goals.
InTeGrate is a STEM-Talent Expansion Program facilitating a large, diverse community of practice in learning about teaching and collaborating for a sustainable future. As the project leadership and hub, SERC organizes and leads participants in materials development, implementation programs, workshops, webinars and project leadership in support of the community of practice needs and goals.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges , Changing Education Systems, Engaging Students with Communities
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Evaluation, Organizational Backbone, Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise, Event Development/Facilitation, Education Research, Project Management/Implementation
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Evaluation, Organizational Backbone, Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise, Event Development/Facilitation, Education Research, Project Management/Implementation
IGUaNA
The goal of the IGUaNA project is to attract a diverse population of students to geophysics through the development of teaching materials that highlight the application of geophysical tools and methods to societally-relevant questions, including environmental, engineering, and forensic questions in urban settings. SERC provided the PIs with website hosting, formative and summative evaluation, and workshop design and facilitation expertise.
The goal of the IGUaNA project is to attract a diverse population of students to geophysics through the development of teaching materials that highlight the application of geophysical tools and methods to societally-relevant questions, including environmental, engineering, and forensic questions in urban settings. SERC provided the PIs with website hosting, formative and summative evaluation, and workshop design and facilitation expertise.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Evaluation, Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Evaluation, Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation
Network of STEM Education Centers
NSEC is an organization of campus-based centers and offices that serve as catalysts for educational transformation in STEM. The network allows center leadership, university and college administrators, and state and national policymakers to have a central hub for their communal efforts. SERC works with NSEC to develop a number of resources that can assist STEM Education Centers in their missions and development. The STEM Ed Center Toolkit, Research Action Clusters, Center Profiles, as well as a number of virtual and in person events such as the Transforming Institutions conferences.
NSEC is an organization of campus-based centers and offices that serve as catalysts for educational transformation in STEM. The network allows center leadership, university and college administrators, and state and national policymakers to have a central hub for their communal efforts. SERC works with NSEC to develop a number of resources that can assist STEM Education Centers in their missions and development. The STEM Ed Center Toolkit, Research Action Clusters, Center Profiles, as well as a number of virtual and in person events such as the Transforming Institutions conferences.
Project Focus: Network and Community Building , Changing Education Systems, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Organizational Backbone, Community Building/Organization, Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Organizational Backbone, Community Building/Organization, Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
Disciplinary Engagement with 2YCs
This project held two years of multi-day virtual workshops that facilitated expanded engagement between 2YCs and 11 disciplinary societies. Disciplinary teams produced action plans. Each set of workshops produced an online report. SERC developed the website and served as part of the 2023 leadership team.
This project held two years of multi-day virtual workshops that facilitated expanded engagement between 2YCs and 11 disciplinary societies. Disciplinary teams produced action plans. Each set of workshops produced an online report. SERC developed the website and served as part of the 2023 leadership team.
Project Focus: Network and Community Building , Supporting Student Success
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Professional Development, Education Research, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Professional Development, Education Research, Website Hosting and Development
National Institute for Faculty Equity
Minorities and women, minority women in particular, are underrepresented in academia, even more so in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Members of these underrepresented groups represent an untapped resource. The National Institute for Faculty Equity seeks to address this persistent problem, in part by institutionalizing the professional development and career success of women and minorities in STEM. This website offers resources for underrepresented faculty in engineering, including presentations and from the Minority Faculty Development workshops and the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty conference. SERC hosts the project's materials as well as provided a web platform for project personnel to use for annual events.
Minorities and women, minority women in particular, are underrepresented in academia, even more so in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Members of these underrepresented groups represent an untapped resource. The National Institute for Faculty Equity seeks to address this persistent problem, in part by institutionalizing the professional development and career success of women and minorities in STEM. This website offers resources for underrepresented faculty in engineering, including presentations and from the Minority Faculty Development workshops and the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty conference. SERC hosts the project's materials as well as provided a web platform for project personnel to use for annual events.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
Geoscience in Two-year Colleges
This website portal provides faculty and students with information about geoscience education at two-year colleges. Faculty can learn about teaching materials, find information about workforce development and geoscience careers, and learn about professional development opportunities. Students can find out about scholarships and educational opportunities. SERC facilitated connections between the contributing projects and hosts the website.
This website portal provides faculty and students with information about geoscience education at two-year colleges. Faculty can learn about teaching materials, find information about workforce development and geoscience careers, and learn about professional development opportunities. Students can find out about scholarships and educational opportunities. SERC facilitated connections between the contributing projects and hosts the website.
Project Focus: Supporting Student Success, Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Content Expertise:Geoscience
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Content Expertise:Geoscience