The Concord Consortium

08/19/2026

With our AI-supported plugin for CODAP, learners who are blind or have low vision can engage in independent data inquiry. Based on a user’s typed or spoken query, the plugin can make a graph, and describe both the graph and the underlying dataset.

But what if the description it provides is too long or too short?

Providing the user with the right amount of information at the right time is the Goldilocks problem of AI-powered data exploration inquiry.

With supplemental funding for our National Science Foundation-funded Data By Voice project, we’re researching this challenge and expanding from pilot testing with individual students to classroom tests in Massachusetts and surrounding areas.

Learn more: https://concord.org/blog/expanding-access-to-data-exploration-with-ai/

08/06/2026

More than 3.5 million learners have used CODAP to explore and analyze data—but few know the engineering story behind it.

Principal Software Engineer Kirk Swenson shares what it took to rewrite CODAP from the ground up—and how Claude AI helped carry 30 years of design into a modern codebase.

We are grateful to the National Science Foundation (NSF), Valhalla Foundation, the Cisco Foundation, and the generous individuals who supported this incredible effort.

Take a look behind the scenes of the four-year project to completely rearchitect CODAP.

https://concord.org/blog/under-the-hood-of-the-new-and-improved-codap/

07/29/2026

Can an AI tutor respond appropriately to student actions in an interactive science simulation—not just what they type? 🤖🔥

That was the challenge Leslie Bondaryk, Doug Martin, and Teale Fristoe tackled at the STEPs Hackathon, hosted by /dev/color, with support from the Gates Foundation.

Our team connected our Wildfire Explorer simulation to an AI tutoring platform so it could respond to what students were doing inside the simulation. They also showed that the same approach could be adapted to other sims.

Read how they worked through the problem—and what they learned:
https://concord.org/blog/stem-inquiry-ai-at-the-steps-hackathon/

Thank you to /dev/color, Nancy Otero, the Gates Foundation, Dr. Shima Salehi, Stanford University’s IDEAL Learning Lab, and all participating organizations for the opportunity to collaborate.

Can an AI tutor respond appropriately to student actions in an interactive science simulation—not just what they type? That was the challenge Concord

07/23/2026

👋 We’re excited to announce that Kiley Brown has been named Director of Product Strategy at the Concord Consortium!

For more than a decade, Kiley has helped transform innovative ideas into impactful STEM learning technologies by working closely with educators, researchers, software developers, and partners. In her new role, she leads our collaborations with educational publishers, virtual schools, nonprofits, districts, and others to co-design research-informed digital learning solutions.

Learn more about Kiley’s new role—and how we partner to create educational technology that makes a difference.

We’re excited to announce that Kiley Brown has been named Director of Product Strategy at the Concord Consortium!

07/14/2026

We're excited to share our latest work at the International Conference on Teaching Statistics ( )!

Join Concord Consortium researchers as they present innovative approaches to data science education, including a CODAP plugin that supports student learning of statistical concepts and the U.S. K–12 Data Literacy and Data Science Model Learning Progressions.

If you're attending ICOTS, we'd love to connect and continue the conversation about the future of statistics and data science education.

See our presentations: https://concord.org/events/icots-2026/

07/07/2026

Excited to be part of this collaboration!

06/12/2026

We’re excited to be presenting at in Irvine, CA! 🎉

We’re helping students make sense of complex spatiotemporal data, demonstrating CLUE, our AI-enhanced STEM inquiry
platform designed to support productive struggle and deeper learning, and describing the design of programming environments and instructional materials that aim to balance usability and expressiveness in computational modeling.

Learn more about our sessions: https://concord.org/events/isls-2026/

06/11/2026

AI is everywhere—from Internet search results to customer service chatbots. But what’s really powering it? Math.

Through our AI in Math online program, Florida Virtual School Algebra 1 students got a behind-the-scenes look at how AI works.

📣 Eighth-grade math teachers: Learn more about joining the program for the 2026–2027 school year. Give your students the chance to move from AI users to AI model builders.

AI is everywhere—from Internet search results to customer service chatbots. But what’s really powering it? Math. Through our AI in Math online program, Florida Virtual School Algebra 1 students got a behind-the-scenes look at how AI works by exploring the math behind text prediction and machine ...

06/09/2026

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the new and improved CODAP! Try it today! Visit codap.concord.org for more details.

We’re grateful to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Cisco Foundation, Valhalla Foundation, and individual donors who made this possible.

05/14/2026

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.

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...