Earl Center for Learning & Innovation
Building Teacher Capacity in Computer Science Education
Doctoral student Cliff Freeman, who is also the director of STEM Programs at the Young People’s Project (YPP), and Eli Tucker-Raymond, a research associate professor at BU Wheelock, are working to build math teachers’ capacity for teaching computer science. In collaboration with Freeman’s colleagues at YPP, they developed a three-year initiative to integrate computer science […]
Guiding Youth to Create Change through STEM
Developing young people’s sense of agency as STEM learners, community members, and creative thinkers is the driving force behind two projects led by BU Wheelock’s Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Nurturant STEM Learning and STEM Cascades focus on encouraging young people’s creative development, critical insight, and social thriving. […]
New Grant Supports STEM Equity Research Network
BU Wheelock’s Maria C. Olivares, research assistant professor in language & literacy and Eli Tucker-Raymond, research associate professor, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to assist in the development of a network to coordinate research on equity practices and cultures in STEM-maker education. The project, “Coordinating Research for Critical Making Cultures and […]
Study Explores How Youth Mentors Facilitate STEM Learning, Teaching, and Doing
BU Wheelock faculty members Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria Olivares, and Kate Frankel have been awarded a three-year grant through the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Core Research Program (ECR) to study how acting as peer mentors helps youth develop relational and personally meaningful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) identities. The project will run […]
Try Something New
It’s an escape the room-style challenge: To find the missing student, you have to make it through a series of puzzles. Solve one and you can open a lockbox that’ll give you a clue to help figure out the next mystery. Crack them all and you’ll find the student. You’ll need to stretch your math […]
The Earl Center Provides Innovative Support for Pre-Service Teachers
“My vision for education is not for teachers to solely disseminate knowledge, but to teach students how this knowledge can be applied in their world,” says Greg Benoit, assistant director of the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. “We have the opportunity to create new innovative experiences for pre-service teachers to explore standards rather than […]