Research Centers and Projects
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Center for Highly Interactive
Computing (hi-ce) The Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan develops learner-centered technology and curriculum that addresses major needs of schools today – Enabling all students to learn and enabling students and teachers to engage in serious intellectual inquiry around authentic, meaningful, motivating, mindful-learning experiences. Web site: http://www.hi-ce.org Grade Levels: 6-8 Subjects: Science, social studies, tech integration Topics: School reform, PD |
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The Center for Curriculum Materials in Science The Center for Curriculum Materials in Science focuses on instructional materials design, analysis, and implementation. The Center brings together scientists, education researchers, teacher education faculty, and K-12 teachers from two large urban school districts and one mid-sized urban district. It draws upon the resources of three major universities and AAAS’s Project 2061 to develop the next generation of instructional materials developers who are knowledgeable concerning science content, cognitive science, pedagogy, professional development, and assessment. It also prepares doctoral level students in science education; it offers a postdoctoral program for individuals from a variety of science and education related fields; it impacts preservice teacher education students through the modification of science methods courses and beginning level courses in science education; and it offers professional development to teachers and administrators as well as to a select group of teacher leaders. The Center fosters communications about its work through summer institutes and year-round activities for participants and others. The focus of all these activities are the design, analysis, and implementation of innovative curriculum materials. Web site: http://www.sciencematerialscenter.org/ Subjects: Topics: |
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Center for Improvement of
Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) CIERA's mission is to improve the reading achievement of America's youth by generating and disseminating theoretical, empirical, and practical solutions to the learning and teaching of beginning reading. Web site: http://www.ciera.org Grade Levels: Pre K-5 Subjects: Literacy Topics: ELL, School reform, Assessment, PD |
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Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics Web site: http://www.cptm.us Grade Levels: All Subjects: Mathematics Topics: |
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Consortium
for Policy Research in Education Created in 1985, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) unites researchers from five of the nation's leading research institutions -- the University of Pennsylvania ,Harvard University ,Stanford University , the University of Michigan , and the University of Wisconsin-Madison -- in an effort to improve elementary and secondary education through practical research. Web site: http://www.cpre.org/ Grade Levels: All Subjects: Topics: Ed policy, school reform |
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CASES supports elementary and middle school science teachers who are recent University of Michigan graduates, and is funded by the National Science Foundation and supported by a University of Michigan CARAT fellowship. Web site: http://cases.soe.umich.edu Grade Levels: Pre K5, Higher Education Subjects: Science, Tech Topics: |
Curriculum
Access System for Elementary Science (CASES)|
Developing a Coherence Between Assessment & Reform Web site: Grade Levels: Subjects: Topics: |
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Geometry, Reasoning, and Instructional Practices Web site: Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12 Subjects: Mathematics Topics: |
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Guided
Inquiry Project (GIsML) Web site: http://www.soe.umich.edu/gisml/ Grade Levels: Subjects: Literacy, Science Topics: Assessment, PD |
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Interactive
Communications & Simulations (ICS) The Interactive Communications & Simulations group at the University of Michigan (ICS) has served the K-12 and University communities for nearly 20 years. We support a dynamic assortment of innovative educational online and computer-based programs. ICS activities focus on using computers as tools to accentuate and improve classroom learning, often in the form of games and simulation activities. Web site: http://ics.soe.umich.edu/ Grade Levels: All Subjects: All Topics: |
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In the fall of 2002 over 180 representatives from diverse organizations gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan to take steps toward a social and professional movement, which could transform the relationship between higher education and society. Together they created a common agenda of current activities and shared goals to promote higher education as a vehicle for public good. This "Common Agenda" is currently being synthesized by the National Forum and a group of delegates chosen to represent the many constituents concerned with this effort. Web site: http://www.thenationalforum.org Grade Levels: Higher Ed Subjects: Topics: Ed policy, social justice |
The
National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good|
Learning
Mathematics for Teaching Project The Learning Mathematics for Teaching (LMT) project develops and uses measures for evaluating the effectiveness of programs and projects designed to improve teachers' content knowledge for teaching mathematics. Web site: www.soe.umich.edu/lmt Grade Levels: Pre K �5 Subjects: Mathematics, Tech integration Topics: PD |
The
Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNSLAE)
Web site: http://www.soe.umich.edu/liberalartstudy/ Grade Levels: Higher Education Subjects: Topics: Liberal Arts Education, College Outcomes, College Student Development, Self-Authorship |
The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education is a four-year, mixed method longitudinal study investigating critical factors that affect the outcomes of liberal arts education. This 19-institution study focuses on the development of seven outcomes associated with undergraduate liberal arts education and the educational conditions and experiences that foster these outcomes.
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Lives of Urban
Children and Youth (LUCY) The LUCY Initiative, through the Michigan Scholars Program, responds to the growing need to prepare undergraduate students to interact effectively in a complex and diverse world. The study of the lives of children in urban settings provides an excellent intellectual context for this process. Students have the opportunity to prepare themselves intellectually and personally, through their college experience, to engage actively in the intellectual, ethical, economic, scientific, and justice-seeking challenges of contemporary society and, in particular, its urban centers. The LUCY Initiative provides courses and co-curricular activities that permit students to make connections between their academic inquiry and their civic engagement Web site: www.umich.edu/~lucyweb Grade Levels: All Subjects: Topics: Social Justice |
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Longitudinal
& Multilevel Methods Projects (LAMMP) The Longitudinal and Multilevel Methods Project (LAMMP) is part of the Education Studies Department, School of Education, University of Michigan. Dr. Stephen W. Raudenbush, Principal Investigator, and a staff of postdoctoral and advanced graduate students work on various projects and grants which focus on statistical issues related to education, literacy, and human development. Web site: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rauden/ Grade Levels: Subjects: Topics: |
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This project unites secondary-school and university teacher-scholars in sustained collaborative inquiry into the dynamic history of the making of American literature -- as a cultural practice of reading and writing, as a school/university subject, and as an academic discipline with changing canons, pedagogies, and theories of interpretation. Web site: www.outreach.umich.edu/amlit Grade Levels: 6-12 Subjects: Literacy, Social Studies, Arts Topics: PD |
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Manner in Teaching Project Web site: Grade Levels: Subjects: Topics: Ethics, PD |
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Mathematics
Teaching & Learning to Teach Project (MTLT) The Mathematics Teaching and Learning to Teach project investigates the mathematical knowledge, sensibilities, and skills entailed by the work of teaching. Web site: http://www.soe.umich.edu/mtlt/ Grade Levels: Higher Ed Subjects: Mathematics Topics: PD |
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Michigan
Interscholastic Forensic Association (MIFA) The Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association is the governing body for high school and middle level competitive speech activities in Michigan. Web site: www.themifa.org Grade Levels: 9-12 Subjects: Literacy Topics: |
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Michigan
School Testing Conference Web site: Here Grade Levels: Pre K- 12 Subjects: All Topics: Assessment, Ed Policy |
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Description: mod4 is a materials development project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Teacher Professional Continuum program. Its aim is to produce educational materials for preservice and inservice teacher development that focus on helping teachers learn mathematical knowledge and skills for teaching elementary mathematics. Building upon more than a decade of research on classroom teaching practice and the mathematical work teachers do, mod4 is developing materials to support teacher learning that
Web site: http://sitemaker.soe.umich.edu/mod4 Grade Levels: Higher Education Subjects: Math Topics: Mathematics and Mathematics Teaching |
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Web site: Here Grade Levels: Subjects: Math and Science Topics: |
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In the wake of fifty years of rapid higher education expansion, colleges and universities are now facing a rapidly changing set of local, national, and international pressures. Through its ambitious research agenda, the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) aims to provide its various constituent groups--policymakers, employers, faculty, students, parents, and administrators--with analysis, recommendations, and conceptual tools that will enable them to adapt to, and even thrive in, this environment. Web site: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/ Grade Levels: Higher Education Subjects: Topics: Ed Policy |
National
Center for Post-Secondary Improvement|
the North Central Association (NCA) is a regional accrediting organization located in a nineteen-state region. Web site: www.nca.umich.edu Grade Levels: Pre K- 12 Subjects: Topics: School Reform |
North
Central Association (NCA)|
A site of the federally funded National Writing Project, OWP is a university-school partnership that forms an intellectual home for educators in the region. For more than two decades, the Oakland Writing Project has impacted the teaching of writing and the shape of professional learning in powerful, visible ways. The OWP's programs enhance literacy instruction through an ever-growing network of teacher leaders. Web site: www.owp.soe.umich.edu Grade Levels: Pre K-12 Subjects: Literacy Topics: School Reform, PD |
Oakland
Writing Project|
Web site: http://www.biokids.umich.edu/ Grade Levels: Pre K-8 Subjects: Science, Tech Integration Topics: |
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Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey Web site:http://www.umich.edu/~pals/ Grade Levels: Subjects: Topics: |
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This project is a significant attempt to bring empirical evidence to inform the practice of educating a diverse student body. Web site: http://www.umich.edu/~divdemo/ Grade Levels: Higher Ed Subjects: Topics: Social Justice |
Preparing
Students for a Diverse Democracy|
Programs for Educational Opportunity (PEO)
Web site: www.umich.edu/~eqtynet Grade Levels: Pre K-12 Subjects: All Topics: All |
The mission of the Programs for Educational Opportunity (P.E.O.)
is to help public school districts ensure that all students
have an opportunity to succeed in school whatever their race,
gender, or national origin. We have provided equity-related
assistance to K-12 education since 1970 in cooperation with
the U.S. Department of Education. Our programs include technical
assistance in educational equity and dissemination of school
improvement programs designed to help all students succeed. |
Project Great Start Professional Development Initiative Web site: http://www.soe.umich.edu/greatstart/index.html Grade Levels: Subjects: Topics: |
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Reading Policy in the States Web site: Grade Levels: Pre K-8 Subjects: Literacy Topics: Ed Policy |
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The Society for College and University Planning is a network of professionals dedicated to excellence in planning for higher education Web site: http://www.scup.org/ Grade Levels: Higher Ed Subjects: Topics: |
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The Study of Instructional Improvement (SII) is a program of comprehensive research that seeks to understand the impact of school improvement programs on instruction and student performance in elementary schools. Over a six-year period, researchers at the University of Michigan are following schools involved with one of three leading school improvement programs -- Accelerated Schools, America's Choice, and Success For All. The study is tracking the implementation of these improvement efforts in schools, and investigating the impact on teachers, students, and schools. Web site: http://www.sii.soe.umich.edu/ Grade Levels: Pre K-8 Subjects: Topics: Ed Policy, School Reform |
Study
of Instructional Improvement (SII)|
The Teacher Education Initiative (TEI) is a comprehensive project to redesign how teachers are prepared for practice at the University of Michigan, and to build knowledge and tools that will inform teacher education more broadly. Recognizing that teachers play a pivotal role in improving p-12 education in the United States, we aim to develop professional education that will prepare novices to do the complex relational, psychological, social, and intellectual work of teaching. We also intend to study our efforts and to gather and disseminate systematic evidence of and about effective teacher education. Web site: http://www.soe.umich.edu/tei/ |
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Web site: http://www.umich.edu/~rdytolrn/ Grade Levels: Subjects: Topics: |
