2021 COMMITMENTS DIRECTORY

The Center for RISC at the University of Chicago commits to creating and hosting a centralized hub of relevant, exciting, trendy, and education-ready datasets for educators to use in the classroom across school subjects.

The College Board, through its Advanced Placement Program, commits to retain a focus on data analysis in Pre-AP and AP science, social studies, and mathematics courses and exams, while also incorporating project-based learning data science tasks into select AP subjects.

CourseKata commits to the following by the end of 2022:
1) Ramping up current teacher training program to reach 500 teachers and 25,000 students.
2) Building Data Science II to complete two-year high school data science course sequence.
3) Engaging 10 R&D teams to exploit CourseKata data and platform to improve student learning of data science.
4) Making CourseKata’s open-source Jupyter hosting platform (called nbteach) available to the data science education community.

DataCamp commits to providing free Professional access to its online learning platform to all US high school teachers and their students effective immediately via DataCamp for Classrooms. Furthermore, DataCamp commits to providing the same free access to all high school, college, and university teachers and their students around the world by August 1, 2022.

By 2022, Deepnote commits to providing affordable data science tools for students and educators worldwide, as well as supporting educational institutions in developing data literacy and data science programs.

The Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College Columbia University commits to creating educational media concerning the application of data science to education.

UC Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society commits to evaluating a pilot of Data Science Curriculum at Community Colleges and advanced High Schools in order to further scale to a broader set of community college and high schools instructors and courses by July 2023.

The Charles A. Dana Center commits to guaranteeing more opportunities in data science education for students who have been historically marginalized by the current system.

Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) San Diego Chapter commits to provide a minimum of two (2) Data Science education related teacher professional development opportunities during the 2021/22 school year.

Data Literacy commits to offering a reduced-rate program for K-12 teachers and district staff, and launching a free online course "17 Key Traits of Data Literacy" by the end of 2022.

DataClassroom commits to create a curated set of more than 150 freely available datasets ready for classroom use in the free version of the DataClassroom web app by the end of 2021.

The Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at California State University East Bay commits to:
1) Creating a Calculus optional pathway for transfer students to get a B.S. in Statistics with a Data Science concentration from community colleges.
2) Talking to other departments, especially the departments of Public Health and Computer Science, about including a Data Science course in their curriculum.
3) Contributing towards the development of Data Science curriculum at the K-12 level through discussion with other STEM major Chairs.

Digital Promise commits to support school and district leaders to establish system-wide K-12 computational thinking pathways, including a data science component, that support equitable participation in data science that is consistent across classrooms, cumulative from year to year, and competency-based by December 2022.

The Enhancing Statistics Teacher Education through E-Modules [ESTEEM] project commits to:
1) Having over 75 faculty use the ESTEEM curriculum materials with at least 1500 undergraduate or graduate-level teacher learners by December 2022.
2) Expanding teacher education curriculum materials to include a greater focus on data science and be applicable to teacher education for K-12 teacher learners, primarily in undergraduate teacher preparation courses, by August 2023.
3) Engaging at least 150 faculty or representatives from partner organizations in a data science and statistics teacher education networked improvement community by August 2025.

The Learning Experience Design, Evaluation, and Consulting division at Charles River Media Group commits to write a blog post for schools that highlights resources for using data to drive decision-making for curating a better learning experience by Fall 2021.

Computer-Based Maths commits to:
1) Maintaining and updating the free self-study problem-solving modules in data science for the next 2 years at least.
2) Building out a new site for students and teachers to access free projects to be tackled in data science and other fields with a target launch of September 2021.

Data.org commits to launching a digital platform in 2021 that will provide access to resources, tools, technical assistance, and case studies to organizations and individuals working in data science for social impact.

Dataspire commits to assist schools and districts with integrating data skills in coordinated and strategic ways across grade levels (grades 3-12) and/or across subject areas (science, math, social studies, English/language arts) during the 2021-22 school year.

Digital Age Academy commits to provide data science education to high school students throughout its one-year online, project-based workforce and entrepreneurial development programs starting in August 2021.

DC Public Schools, in partnership with American University, commits to:
1) Enrolling a diverse group of schools and teachers in data science coursework for college or graduate school credit respectively.
2) Providing a teacher professional development workshop for up to 30 teachers to build teacher content knowledge around data science and R programming in July 2021.