including free PD opportunities, math activities, and AI in education resources.
January 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.
Climate and Equity Summer Institute
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 about climate change and equity. Taking place 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 find renewed purpose while learning and reflecting in a stunning natural setting.
Takeaway: Embedding mathematics in meaningful, real-world contexts like cooking helps students build critical thinking skills while drawing on their lived experiences, interests, and cultural knowledge.
How TERC Can Help:The Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics’s Excursions build on this same approach by guiding students to apply mathematics to real contexts in their own lives and communities, uncovering their strengths, exploring new ideas, and learning how people from diverse backgrounds use mathematics in the world.
STEM Fact!
Sound travels about four times faster in water than in air, which is why whales can communicate across long distances.
Join 30-minute listening sessions that will introduce a set of tools designed to support the development of equitable math learning environments.
Participants will hear directly from teachers who have used these tools in their own classrooms and learn how the tools have shaped and informed their instructional practices. The sessions will also provide an overview of each component of the tools. There will be time at the end of each session for questions.
Student Reflection Tool February 9th, 3:00-3:30pm, EST
Teacher Reflection Tool for Whole Class Discussions March 16th, 3:00-3:30pm, EST
The REVISE Center recently hosted a two-part webinar series, Playful Pathways to AI in Informal STEM Education, focused on how practitioners and researchers are implementing AI and building effective AI literacy programs in informal learning spaces.
The webinar recordings and slides are now available!
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