including free comic zine, math activities, and PD opportunities.
February 2026
STEM education insights and resources for educators
Programs & Materials Highlights
Our forward-thinking and groundbreaking research projects often result in insightful and inspiring learning materials, many for free.
New TERC Comic Zine Illustrates Women of Colors’ Journey in Physics
A Perilous Path Through Physics: Obstacles, Supports, and Strategies of Women of Color in Physics is a comic zine that brings to life key themes from The Double Bind in Physics Education by TERC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Maria Ong. Created by researcher, educator, and artist Sophie Wang, the zine uses visual metaphor and storytelling to help readers reflect on how barriers, supports, and systemic conditions shape who stays, leaves, or forges new paths in science.
Takeaway: When educators honor children’s questions and build activities around them, classrooms become more engaging, learning feels meaningful, and children develop a lasting spirit of inquiry.
How TERC Can Help: TERC’s Mixing in Math embedded “Talk About” questions offer ideas on what to talk over in order to support math skills. They give educators simple, intentional prompts that build on children’s natural curiosity and conversations, helping deepen mathematical thinking while keeping learning child-led.
STEM Fact!
Saturn is so light that it could float in a giant bathtub of water.
Culturally Sustaining UDL: Centering Belonging and Design in Mathematics
How can we be responsive? This talk invites educators to reimagine mathematics teaching and learning through the lens of belonging and design. Together, we will confront pervasive myths and ideologies that shape mathematics education and center both student and teacher agency and resilience.
Grounded in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this framework repositions responsiveness not as accommodation but as collective design—co-creating mathematics classrooms and schools where language, culture, and ways of knowing are recognized, sustained, and leveraged to deepen mathematical understanding and human connection.
TERC, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, will welcome 18 high school educators as Climate and Equity Fellows for the 2026 Climate and Equity Institute—an all-expenses-paid, weeklong experience focused on teaching climate change and equity.
Held July 26–August 1, 2026, at the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park, the Institute brings together educators from diverse communities to share practice, collaborate with experts, strengthen curriculum, and reconnect with purpose in a stunning natural setting.
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