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Partner Spotlight: PIMSER Numeracy Counts Administrator’s Academy The Numeracy Counts Administrator Academy (PNCA2), developed by the Partnership Institute for Math and Science Education Reform (PIMSER), is a statewide leadership pathway designed to build principals’ capacity to implement the Kentucky Numeracy Counts Act (House Bill 162, 2024). The academy develops mathematically knowledgeable leaders by aligning high-quality instructional resourcesContinue reading “Numeracy Counts Spotlight”

PIMSER Regional Teacher Partner Renee Yates will represent the organization on the KDE Elementary Advisor Panel.  The American Institutes for Research is facilitating a team of teachers, higher education leaders, and business and community members to review the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Mathematics.    Business and industry professionals who are actively engaged in career fields thatContinue reading “Advancing Math Education: PIMSER’s Renee Yates Joins KDE Advisory Panel to Review Kentucky Academic Standards”

PIMSER will host the 2026 Higher Ed Science Teaching Summit at Midway University on January 30, 2026. This event will bring together educators to explore innovative teaching strategies, share best practices, and collaborate on advancing science education in higher ed. Save the Date! More details coming soon.

The Concord Consortium recently featured a blog post by PIMSER Regional Teacher Partner, Stephanie Harmon, titled Understanding Floods: A Look Inside a Classroom. In this insightful post, Harmon highlights how students used simulations to explore the science behind floods, providing an engaging and real-world learning experience.

PIMSER.org awarded a Master Teacher Noyce project from NSF. We will be selecting 9 middle and high school science teacher to be supported to become master teachers who can support their local district and the state vision for science education. Stay tuned for more information coming late Spring.

We will deep dive into content from OpenSciEd units to help teachers understand how to interactively explore these scientific concepts with their students, and elevate successful student learning and performance in the process. Target Audience: Middle School and High School Science Teachers,  Instructional Coaches and Cooperative Science Leads. How do High Quality Instructional Resources (HQIR) impactContinue reading “Using High Quality Instructional Resources in the Science Classroom”

We hope you’ll join us at Kentucky State University for the Higher Ed Science Teaching Summit! As our K-12 pre-service and in-service teachers are enhancing their practices to meet the intent of the Kentucky Academic Standards in Science, we need to inform ourselves about how to best support those teachers. While all who support K-12Continue reading “PIMSER to host Higher Education Science Summit”