STEM – Page 7 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Strong STEM Focus Continues

An urgent call for U.S. educators to improve, develop, support, fund, and require science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills and to provide STEM opportunities for the nation’s students has echoed across the country since 2005. In 2007, local legislation…

Strength in Collaboration

Effective collaboration has always been a hallmark of CRDG’s work. CRDG excels at building alliances that further high quality education for all children. Its partners include schools, collegial research entities, community and education organizations, and government agencies. Curriculum research, data…

Early Childhood Education

In line with the state’s ongoing P–20 Initiative, and with the new national focus on early childhood development, CRDG’s early childhood education specialists took this new program into its second year of exploratory research on development of a comprehensive early…

CRDG Hosts Visitors From Around the World

The innovative nature of the research and development work that goes on at CRDG and in the University Laboratory School (ULS) means that visitors are a common occurrence on campus, and 2008 was no exception. In February, long-time collaborator Dr.…

Classroom Makery Enhancing Students’ Interest in STEM

In the latest stage in an ongoing process, Neil Scott and his team expanded their Makery project into three charter schools on Hawai’i Island where students and teachers have begun to work in a Makery Cloud. The Makery concept grew…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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