2021 COMMITMENTS DIRECTORY

The Michael & Susan Dell foundation, in partnership with the E3 Alliance and Dana Center at UT Austin, commits to creating and improving math pathways in a minimum of 13 school districts, representing 400,000 students, and four Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), representing 120,000 students, across Central Texas by 2025.

The Museum of Science Boston commits to expanding access to data science education through the development of The Center for Data Science and Public Learning, a community platform dedicated to public science engagement. The Center for Data Science & Public Learning will be the public’s trusted resource for learning about and participating in the development and deployment of data science and AI technologies.

The National Writing Project commits to supporting students develop skills for engagement in civic and community life as well as for the new workplace and global economy.

The New York Hall of Science commits to expanding its Data Science for All (DS4ll) collaborative into schools and libraries by Spring 2022.

NCSSM commits to prepare students for data-intensive careers through several ambitious initiatives that are ongoing.

Openscapes commits to mentoring ~30 research teams in open practices for data science and open data science advocacy by the end of 2021

Podsie commits to provide data science curriculum on its platform by the end of 2021.

Microsoft commits to contributing to the Data Science for Everyone campaign and supporting data literacy as a critical 21st century technical skill.

NWEA commits to creating and supporting a data science challenge for high school students during the 2021-2022 academic year. As well as providing organizational capacity, an educational dataset, connections to mentors, judging projects, awarding prizes, and host a virtual or in-person awards event.

NetApp commits to empowering teens to discover and develop critical data science skills, preparing them to thrive and take action in a data-driven world. We are committed to raising awareness of and advocate for the importance of data science education starting at a young age.

Newsela commits to hosting a webinar to empower educators to integrate data literacy into daily instruction with interactive data literacy platform Tuva Labs and educators using Newsela by December 1, 2021.

The North Carolina State University Data Science Academy commits to designing and delivering five new one-credit data science courses by December 31, 2021.

Partners in Data Literacy commits to publish a draft reference table of data skills by grade bands, primarily for K-12 teachers in any discipline, on the Partnersindataliteracy.com website by June 16, 2021.

Portland Public Schools commits to exploring a pilot of a Data Science course in some or all of our high schools and providing professional learning opportunities for teachers by 2022 as the State of Oregon revises its mathematics standards.

The MindHive team based at New York University commits to incorporating data analysis and visualization tools into its online citizen science platform that will support high school students in analyzing data and generating findings from student-scientist designed studies into human brain and behavior, by 2023.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) commits to supporting a Data Science Education Town Hall bridging K-12 and higher education, cutting across disciplines, and emphasizing equity issues.

New Solutions K12 commits to developing or researching best practices for facilitating students with special needs to master data science by December 31 2021

PhysioQ commits to providing an online platform that supports health and data science information dissemination to both the research community as well as the general public by August 1, 2021.

OpenSciEd commits to releasing a free science curriculum aligned to the NGSS.

PhET Interactive Simulations commits to launching a new initiative to develop sims and sim-based instructional materials to support learning and engagement in data science, and to disseminate the collection as open educational resources.