August 2018 Newsletter

We've heard! CADRE has been awarded a grant to continue serving the DRK-12 program and its awardees for another two years. Here's what we know. We will continue to share news and resources with you through our monthly newsletters, the cadrek12.org website, and social media. CADRE will work with NSF and a planning committee to organize a PI meeting for 2020. We will continue to collaborate with DRK-12 awardees, working across disciplines and topical foci, to get the word out about what awardees and the greater DRK-12 community are learning regarding how to improve STEM education. And CADRE will support two more cohorts of early career researchers in an effort to broaden participation in STEM. In fact, we open nominations for CADRE Fellows today! Read more below.

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Now Accepting Applications for the 2018-19 CADRE Fellows Program

CADRE invites PIs and co-PIs of active DRK-12 projects to recommend an early career STEM education researcher who you think would contribute to and benefit from the CADRE Fellows program. The person you recommend may be a member of your project team, someone in your department, or a researcher with whom you've had the opportunity to work in a different capacity and can speak to the quality of their work.

We aim to establish a cohort of 10 Fellows that represent diverse backgrounds, experience, interests, professional goals, institutions, and geographic regions. Special consideration will be given to applicants who have not had similar professional development opportunities, and are recommended by awardees and/or from institutions that have not previously had a CADRE Fellow.

Please note that we will accept only one recommendation per PI/co-PI per year. Applicants should fit the following criteria:

1. Be a doctoral student or similar early career professional at an academic or non-academic institution.
2. Have research experience in education and exhibit evidence of leadership.
3. Demonstrate the desire and potential for advancing the field of STEM education.
4. Have professional experience and career goals that contribute to broadening participation in STEM education.
5. Have the capacity to contribute to the Fellows program by participating in all activities.

Applications are due by 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday, September 19. The new Fellows cohort will be announced at the end of September. Please direct questions to cadre@edc.org

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CADRE Fellows Alumni: Where are they now?

We recently surveyed the CADRE Fellows alumni network to learn more about where they are in their careers. Read updated alumni profiles to learn about their current work and research interests.

Congratulations to the CADRE Fellows alumni who were recently awarded DRK-12 funding! 

• Award #1814220, Highly Adaptive Science Simulations for Accessible STEM Education (PI: Emily Moore, University of Colorado Boulder)
• Award #1813254, Developing and Validating Assessments to Measure and Build Elementary Teachers' Content Knowledge for Teaching about Matter and Its Interactions Within Teacher Education Settings (PI: Jamie Mikeska, Educational Testing Service)
• Award #1813476, Understanding the Role of Simulations in K-12 Science and Mathematics Teacher Education (PI: Jamie Mikeska, Educational Testing Service)
• Award #1813903, Developing Preservice Teachers' Capacity to Teach Students with Learning Disabilities in Algebra I (PI: Casey Hord, University of Cincinnati)

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