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REPORT • 2026 • by Classrooms of Belonging & AI Brain Trust at Beyond100K, with the ISP’s Jennifer Burris contributing.
A future for education shaped by AI won’t be determined by technology alone. It will be shaped by the teachers, students, and systems deciding how.

EDUCATOR RESOURCE • 2024-2025 • by Beyond100K
Tools for preparing and retaining STEM teachers with equity, representation, and a sense of belonging developed in partnership with Beyond100K

BOOK CHAPTER • August 2026 • Alison Brockhouse, Rachel M. Ruggirello, and Gloria Pfeiffer are co-authors of a chapter on PDSA learning cycles that appears in Teaching and Learning for Collaborative Continuous Improvement in Education: Challenges and Possibilities Across the Educational System published by Myers Education Press.

Carmen Meeks, associate director of strategic initiatives at WashU’s Institute for School Partnership, has supported hundreds of local educators to improve math and science instruction and student outcomes. She will be recognized as an Excellence in Education honoree during the St. Louis American Foundation’s 39th annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala October 17, 2026.

Keeping pace with something as fast-moving and complex as AI is a challenge for educators, but navigating the impacts can open the window to important conversations around what’s fundamental about learning.

Join WashU’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP) and the Center for Education Research, Practice, and Policy Partnerships (CERP3) for Evidence to Action Coffee Chats, a new virtual series designed to make educational research usable.

BRIEF • March 2026 • Alexandra Forgerson, Carol Colaninno, Rachel M. Ruggirello, and Doug Chalker. With support and resources from WashU’s ASSET program, K-12 teachers nationwide are using the same living model organism that scientists study to understand biological process, Tetrahymena.

BRIEF • May 2026 • Megumi Hine, Rachel M. Ruggirello, Jason Jabbari, Yung Chun, and Maia Elkana This study investigates mySci’s impact on student science achievement at the school level.

Recently recognized for excellence by his school district and the National Association of Biology Teachers, David Ganey says it’s important to show students that science is vibrant and continually changing. “To keep up with that constant change, I have to be a lifelong learner.”

A collaboration between WashU’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP) and the Digital Intelligence & Innovation (DI2) Accelerator has been selected for the first-of-its-kind Fostering Interdisciplinary Network Driven Educationally Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY).