Center for STEM Education

Dear Friends,

The Notre Dame Center for STEM Education, housed in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, was founded in 2013 to make a lasting impact in STEM education through its research and the translation of evidence-based findings into programs that have broader impacts on student interest in, identity with, and learning of the STEM disciplines. The Center collaborates with researchers and practitioners at Notre Dame and across the nation to help all students innovate, engage, and excel in the STEM disciplines. The work of the Center especially targets students from under-represented populations and students in Catholic schools.

Faculty and staff in the Center are integrally involved in the major functions of a University – research, service, and teaching. Every member of the Center is somehow involved in one or more of the Center’s research or evaluation clusters, currently focused on STEM Teacher Leadership, STEM Integration, Core Instructional Practice, the Integration of Catholic Social Teaching and STEM, and outcomes from our professional formation programs. All members have service responsibilities in one of our two anchor teacher formation programs and have various undergraduate and graduate level teaching responsibilities.

The University of Notre Dame Center for STEM Education believes that all young people, especially those from underserved communities, deserve a high-quality STEM education in order to shape their own futures and those of the communities in which they live. Through research and professional formation, the Center improves STEM teaching and learning in both Catholic and public schools. We are pleased to share opportunities to learn through the Center with learning community on ThinkND.

Best wishes from campus,

Matthew Kloser ’02, ’04 M.Ed.

Director, Center for STEM Education

Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives

Associate Professor of the Practice, Alliance for Catholic Education

University of Notre Dame

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