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Huge congratulations to ChemLEAP co-developer and rockstar teacher Stacey Balbach for receiving the 2022 James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching! Way to go Stacey!

The ChemLEAP team just published a great study exploring the potential of curricular materials to communicate consequential messages about knowledge and knowing to teachers (and students). Check it out!

Adam Schafer was recently awarded a Mentoring Excellence Award from the UW-Madison Postdoc Association for being a Rockstar mentor. Congrats, Adam!!  

Adam, Cara, Kimberly, Niall, Peter, and Jason were recognized for being amazing at our department’s 2022 Award symposium. Congratulations, everyone!

You can access many great phenomena-centered high school chemistry resources at our ChemLEAP website. Check it out!

Kimberly, Cara and Niall’s investigation of how what is assessed relates to organic chemistry students’ explanations for a benzylic hydrobromination reaction was just published in J. Chem. Educ. You can read the paper here. Congratulations, …

Our study demonstrating the utility of a multi-part model of college STEM learning environments was just published in JRST! You can read it here.

Ryan, Vanessa, Leah, Nicole and Melanie recently published a paper on the importance of assessment emphasis in signaling to students “what counts”.

The Stowe group welcomes Megan Deshaye and Tom Kuborn to the team! Megan comes to us from Washington, where she did her B.S. and M.S. at Western Washington University. Tom joined us after completing an …