Our projects and research shape the STEM education field by introducing innovative curricula and improving student access to STEM.

We support more than 60 active projects every year, and our high-quality, innovative research is based on the understanding that for STEM, real-world application matters. We inspire, motivate, and create life-long learners by helping students connect what they are taught in the classroom to the world around them.


These projects and our research are designed to encompass a wide range of subjects and disciplines within STEM education and teaching methods to expand accessibility for all eager minds.

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Addressing Resiliency to Climate Related Hazards and Disasters Through Data Informed Decision Making
Addressing Resiliency to Climate Related Hazards and Disasters Through Data Informed Decision Making

The project is developing an interdisciplinary graduate program addressing issues of climate related risk and resilience planning and decision-making in the southeast US.

Adult Numeracy Center
Adult Numeracy Center

The Adult Numeracy Center at TERC helps adults and young adults understand how math is present and relevant in everyday life, and how they can use this knowledge to improve their lives and communities.

Adult Numeracy Center PD
Adult Numeracy Center PD

Are you looking for professional development (PD) opportunities to foster conceptual understanding, improve reasoning and justification skills, and share experiences with peers?

African American Young Women in Making to Engage in STEM and Entrepreneurship (AAMASE)
African American Young Women in Making to Engage in STEM and Entrepreneurship (AAMASE)

Using a co-design model, researchers, practitioners alongside participants will develop a program for young women of color to learn STEM, Making, and entrepreneurship skills.

Afterschool Making Projects with Design Thinking and Mathematics with Latinx Communities (AMPD4Math)
Afterschool Making Projects with Design Thinking and Mathematics with Latinx Communities (AMPD4Math)

Latinx youth engage in design and making to address community needs as they develop positive identities as mathematics learners, doers and users.

Applying a Complex Systems Perspective to Investigate the Relationship between Choreography and Agent-based Modeling as Tools for Scientific Sense-making
Applying a Complex Systems Perspective to Investigate the Relationship between Choreography and Agent-based Modeling as Tools for Scientific Sense-making

Choreographing Science brings science researchers, youth, and choreographers together in informal community arts spaces to explore the scientists’ authentic research questions through choreographic and computational modeling.

Assessing for Change in Chemical Thinking
Assessing for Change in Chemical Thinking

The ACCT project is developing, implementing, and studying a professional development model for improving chemistry teachers’ formative assessment practices to foster teaching focused on chemical thinking.

Assessment Practices of STEM Teachers
Assessment Practices of STEM Teachers

The project studies the development of the science assessment practices of teachers in high-needs districts.

AugmentedEF
AugmentedEF

Using augmented reality tools to help students with executive function issues attend to STEM related tasks.