2021 COMMITMENTS DIRECTORY

VHS Learning (VHS, Inc.) commits to offering online teacher-led statistic courses at three levels (Advanced Placement, Honors, and Standard) to more than 700 high schools in the 2021-2022 academic year, to expand the opportunity for students, especially those in underserved areas, to have access to data science education.

WestEd, in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Education, commits to:
1) Enhance the data literacy of their supervisory unions through the delivery of nine webinar events and associated individual coaching sessions all focused on improving educators' capacity to know how to use data for continuous improvement.
2) Helping the Nevada Department of Education staff develop data literacy through REL West and the Region 15 Comprehensive Center.
3) Delivering webinars on culturally responsive data literacy to help LEAs and educator preparation programs understand the importance of using data effectively to meet the needs of all students, taking a whole child perspective and using an asset model.
4) Working with the Future for Privacy Forum on developing materials on data privacy and data ethics to serve as resources for educator preparation programs (both for teachers and leaders), for in-service professional development.
5) Conducting of workshops and dissemination strategies to bring awareness to and build capacity around data ethics, data privacy, and culturally responsive data literacy.
6) Developing a Teacher Data Fluency Framework, cases of classroom practice, and teacher professional learning modules that engage teachers in data-rich learning and help them overcome roadblocks in middle school students’ progression toward data fluency that will reach at least 40 teachers and at least 3,000 middle school students by the end of 2024.

Wolfram Research commits to:
1) Maintaining and updating free data science courses Visual Explorations in Data Science, Multiparadigm Data Science, and An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language in the Wolfram Cloud: and promoting them to educators for the next 3 years at least.
2) Maintaining and updating the free Wolfram Data Repository to provide a uniform system for storing data and making it immediately computable and useful.

Writing Data Stories commits to contributing middle and high school level curricular resources in English and Spanish that focus on data transformation and considering the social history and impact of data (e.g. who is included and excluded from a given dataset, the authors and motivations behind the design of a given dataset, what this means for the perspectives the dataset reflects, how we can improve representation in datasets, etc.).

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.

Vidya Community High School commits to offering data science exposure to our learners through our STEM Project Based Learning (PBL) approach.

What if Math at Sustainablearning, Inc commits to adding 11 more Explorations to the 7 now available by the end of 2021.

Women in Data commits to developing an engaging data literacy education program for secondary school students (7th-12th grade) with initial pilot in the 2021-2022 school year.

The Young Data Scientists League commits to provide every student with the means and motivation to use data to shape our world in diverse, creative, and ethical ways by providing high-quality, inclusive, and social data science programs in SY2021-22.

edX is committed to delivering data science skills to 3M learners through 2023. With 400+ data science courses and 80+ programs from the world’s top universities and companies, edX will advance the education and careers of millions. Any learner can access all of our data science courses through a free audit track at edX.org. We are also working with universities through our Online Campus Essentials solution by delivering a catalogue of free data science courses to these institutions’ learners.

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), in partnership with CodeVA, commits to creating a Data and Computational Fluency pathway to bridge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and to articulate connections to Data Science and Computer Science coursework. This commitment takes place as the VA Department of education revises its high school mathematics pathways and standards.

Wingalytics commits to creating an app that can be used to teach secondary students how image classification works and have 2 teachers try it in their class by February 1st, 2022. Learn more here: https://vimeo.com/566106205

The Woods Hole Institute commits to continuing our efforts to bring data literacy to underserved communities throughout 2021, with a goal to receive funding to support these efforts by June 2022.

Zearn commits to building and launching a Middle School math program for students and teachers, including a high-quality, research-backed curriculum, instructional guidance, and digital lessons that lays key foundations for data science, including statistics and probability, among others. Design to ensure equitable reach and impact for all kids.