Research Highlights

A new grant will help IU School of Education researchers develop a suite of tools to support students as they construct and critique models in science education.

With a five-year $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Heather Ormiston is working to help recruit, train, and retain school counselors to implement mental health services in schools.

A new study, led by Cindy Ann Kilgo, hopes to find new ways for higher education and student affairs professionals to support LGBTQ+ college students while also shifting the narrative about their postsecondary education experiences.

With a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Joshua Danish and Cindy Hmelo-Silver will support middle school students' data literacy with the help of their open-source analysis tool Net.Create.

A new $3.8 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will fund a project led by Hannah Schertz and Jessica Lester to address the need for effective early intervention for toddlers with autism while examining the efficacy of an intervention framework that helps early intervention providers (EIPs) support families of toddlers with autism.

A new study from Frank Perrone shows that school districts in metropolitan areas looking to cut a day from their academic week should be prepared to see drops in teacher retention, student achievement, and home values within their boundaries, at least in the short-term.

INsite, a IU School of Education partnership with school districts across the state, provides faculty with access to advanced data analytics, visualization, and development for the purpose of catalyzing their research.

Elder Watson Diggs founded Kappa Alpha Psi Founder and was the first African American to graduate with a degree in education from IU, We presented the first annual Elder Watson Diggs Symposium and unveiled a new portrait to be hung in the IU School of Education.

Led by Adam Scribner, Educating for Environmental Change provides professional development programs to help K-12 science educators effectively teach the science and policy of climate change.

School shutdowns due to the pandemic in 2019 and a military coup in 2021 left teachers in Myanmar without access to professional development resources and training. A program from the IU School of Education is helping to change that.

The IU School of Education launched an online program designed to support classroom teachers who are seeking leadership development opportunities. The Teacher Leader Pathway provides classroom teachers with two years of classroom experience an opportunity to acquire important leadership skills that create opportunities for professional advancement.