The Concord Consortium

In Pele’s Playground, middle schoolers on Hawai‘i’s Big Island use block-based programming to explore how lava flows and vog moves—connecting computational thinking with real-world science and their lived experiences. Principal Investigator Amy Pallant shares her experience visiting their classroom.

Pele’s Playground: Combining block programming and volcanology In Pele’s Playground, middle schoolers on Hawai‘i’s Big Island use block-based programming to explore how lava flows and vog moves—connecting computational thinking with real-world science and their lived experiences. Principal Investigator Amy Pallant shares her experience visiting their cl...

📢 New in The Science Teacher!

“Data Science and Healthcare: Part 1 of 2 Leading to AI Instruction” explores how high school educators can build students’ data literacy through hands-on, inquiry-based learning.

Featuring lessons from the Data Science, AI and You (DSAIY) Healthcare curriculum, this article highlights strategies for teaching data collection, visualization, and analysis—culminating in real-world applications like ethical decision-making and machine learning.

Prepare your students for the future of science and healthcare. 🔬📊

Increasing Data Literacy in High School Students Through Data Science and Healthcare: Part 1 of 2 Leading to AI Instruction High school science and biomedical pathway teachers need effective strategies to build student data literacy and prepare them to conduct experiments. This first article of two presents the data col...

Explore how students can investigate real-world variability using PhET Interactive Simulations inside CODAP.

Our latest blog post walks through the PhET Projectile Data Lab—where students launch pumpkins (or other more standard projectiles) and analyze the data to understand mean, variability, and sampling noise.

Bring physics and statistics together in a hands-on, engaging way!

Pumpkins, projectiles, and data: Explore PhET sims in CODAP Explore how students can investigate real-world variability using PhET simulations inside CODAP.

🌎 Earth Day is every day in the classroom.

This year, make the moment last. Our free Earth Science Resources bring real geoscience tools into middle and high school classrooms year-round — so students don't just hear about Earth systems, they investigate them.

Each NGSS-aligned module includes:
✔️ Interactive Earth system models, simulations, and data tools
✔️ Teacher editions with background, tips, and exemplar student responses
✔️ A real-time dashboard to track student progress
✔️ Validated pre- and post-assessments

Topics range from climate, fresh water, and air quality to wildfires, floods, hurricanes, plate tectonics, and seismology.

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Explore the collection → learn.concord.org/earth

A new study in the Journal of Science Teacher Education investigates how teachers’ STEM identities contributed to the design of classroom activities intended to develop their students’ STEM identities.

Data includes video recordings from a teacher professional development workshop in which teachers explored their own STEM identities, survey data on students’ STEM identities, and artifacts from co-designed activities tailored to teachers’ classes.

Results reveal that teachers’ STEM identities significantly influence how they support the development of students’ STEM identities.

Contact [email protected] to get access to the full paper.

STEM Identity Development: Leveraging Teacher STEM Identity to Design Activities for Students Developing students’ STEM identities and career awareness within a science discipline can be challenging for teachers as STEM identity extends beyond specific content expertise and traditional peda...

We’re heading to ! 🌟

Join Concord Consortium President and CEO Chad Dorsey and Chief Technology Officer Leslie Bondaryk in Anaheim as we share new ways to bring AI, data, modeling, and interactive STEM learning into the classroom. We’re excited to connect with educators who are reimagining science teaching.

Stop by our sessions to explore classroom-ready tools, engage with hands-on activities, and discover how technology can deepen student understanding.

See you at ! 🚀

🔗 Learn more: https://concord.org/events/nsta-2026/

We’ve been testing DAVAI—our AI-powered, voice-enabled data tool for CODAP—with blind and low-vision learners, and the results are exciting. Participants find it easier than spreadsheets and especially value asking questions in natural language.

We’re grateful to our collaborators at Prime Access Consulting, including Sina Bahram, for their expertise in accessibility and user experience, and to Geoff Freed of onfocusAccess for his decades of leadership in the field.

Read how we’re making data inquiry accessible in our latest blog post.

Usability studies on DAVAI: Making data inquiry accessible We’ve been testing DAVAI—our AI-powered, voice-enabled data tool for CODAP—with blind and low-vision learners, and the results are exciting.

We’re heading to ! 🎉

Join the Concord Consortium team in Los Angeles (April 8–12) as we share new research and tools for transforming STEM education.

📊 Data science education enthusiasts: Join us for a meetup on April 9, 7–9 PM at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown (69th Floor)!

Explore our presentations 👇
https://concord.org/events/aera-2026/

What if the same structured “semantic layer” that helps AI understand a simulation could also make it more accessible to screen readers?

In her latest blog post, CTO Leslie Bondaryk explores how accessibility work and AI-readiness may share core representational foundations — and what that could mean for STEM learning.

Ongoing research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping us explore the promise new AI approaches may hold for broadening access to powerful computational learning tools.

Shared representations for accessible and AI-supported inquiry What if the same structured “semantic layer” that helps AI understand a simulation could also make it more accessible to screen readers?