Beyond100K Authentic Intelligence: Building STEM Classrooms of Belonging in the Age of AI
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.
Balancing Data and Reflection: Supporting Teachers in Meaningful PDSA Cycles for Instructional Improvement
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.
ASSET: Scaling Authentic Science Education
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.
Evaluating the Impact of mySci on Student Outcomes in the St. Louis Region
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.
Implementing a new high-quality math curriculum
BRIEF • December 2025 • by Mitchelle Wambua & Maia Elkana • This brief addresses the benefits and challenges associated with implementing a new
high-quality mathematics curricular resource, with recommendations for how schools can facilitate the implementation process to best support teachers and students.
Integrating science and English language instruction
BRIEF • August 2025 • by Rosalyn Langrohling-Amanor & Maia Elkana This brief addresses how instructional leaders can support teaching and learning to improve student achievement.
mySci Impact: Student Outcomes Overview
WHITE PAPER • September 2023 • by Maia Elkana & Alison Brockhouse
This white paper details the research and design of the mySci program as well as evaluation outcomes for teachers and students.
St. Louis Public School District grows science learning through 2-year pilot
REPORT • November 2022 • by Maia Elkana
This evaluation brief details the results of a 2-year pilot. This partnership between ISP, The Little Bit Foundation, and SLPS resulted in science teaching & learning gains.
Using the crosscutting concepts to reflect on and refine your teaching
EDUCATOR RESOURCE • June 2021 • by Jeanne Norris & Sarah Schondelmeyer
This STEM Teaching Tool written in partnership between ISP Instructional Specialist and a mySci teacher includes resources to support educators in approaching their own problems and opportunities of practice, similarly to how they would teach students to solve scientific problems.
mySci and Student Achievement Case Study: Pattonville
Case Study • January 2021 • by Maia Elkana
This case study illustrates the increase in student science performance on state-wide standardized tests and explores student science achievement on mySci unit assessments in a suburban Missouri public school district during curriculum adoption and early implementation.