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New Mexico State University

COE Educational Research and Budgeting Office

COE Culturally responsive Math, Science & Technology Education Research Cluster

COE's Culturally responsive Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Research agenda is to advance knowledge in understanding how learners relate what is abstract in a foreign language to what is familiar in their own language and culture. A secondary component that supports the goals and methodologies of the primary agenda is to make software technology available to classroom teachers, allowing them to familiarize themselves with the tools and to begin to develop their own computer-based learning materials.

  • Dr. Susan Brown is working with two New Mexico NASA Explorer Schools in the National Alliance for State Science and Math COllaboration initiative. The two primary goals are to increase parental involvement at both schools and to increase community involvement.

  • Drs. Karin Wiburg and H. Prentice Baptiste are the co-PIs of record on the NASA Digital Media Lab (DML). The DMC model is one in which practical development opportunities are available for students through facilitating the technology integration activities of faculty, professional teaching staff, and the educational community at NMSU. DMC activities for students include: meeting with faculty to determine their digital production requirements for classroom or laboratory technology projects; producing the defined output using industry standard software packages and techniques; and, providing faculty with post-production support and assessment to determine the success of the projects. Harry Schulte is the Project Director.

  • Drs. Karin Wiburg and Rick Scott are implementing their vision of middle school teachers being thoroughly prepared to teach mathematics in a way that meets both national and state standards and the needs of their diverse learners. The expected results of this visionary approach is that all 6th through 8th grade students will achieve at high levels in mathematics. The goals include ensuring that teachers will be fully credentialed through programs that increase teacher mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge, and, implementing policies and practices at the core partner institutions that will sustain improvement in student achievement, teacher quality, and collaboration between the public schools, mathematicians, and math educators.