News and Announcements
Stay up to date with the latest research updates, publications, and announcements from the Computing, Reasoning, and Expression (CoRE) Lab at UC Berkeley.
2026
Michelle was honored to provide the Foreword to our colleagues Asli Sezen-Barie, Marie K. Stapleton, and Hosun Kang’s just released book, Making Climate Justice Count: Teaching with Data Stories for Action. The book features case studies, practical strategies, and a strong overarching framework for considering how students can engage deeply with climate data throughout the science curriculum.
Brendan’s project “Teaching the CS Teachers: Examining the Design, Motivation, and Curricular Changes in CS Teacher Preparation Programs” was selected to receive a Special Projects grant from the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education!
The CoRE Lab presented several research papers and interactive symposia at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences (ISLS):
Helen Fitzmaurice and her teacher collaborator Michael Bortz won a Best Practice Paper award for their ISLS 2026 paper, “Designing Instruction to Expand Privileged Students’ Ideologies in the Context of Climate Change and Environmental Injustice.”
Jake, Helen, and Michelle contributed a chapter called Layered Landscapes: Critical Climate Cartography as a Pedagogical Framework to Bring Together Data, Experience, Science, and History to the recently published Palgrave Handbook of Climate Change Research in Transdisciplinary Education, edited by Asli Sezen-Barie and Sara Tolbert.
2025
We are pleased to announce our latest publication, which explores strategies for making large datasets manageable and pedagogically generative for K-12 educators. How to be “Choosy”: Wrangling big datasets for the classroom provides a systematic approach for curriculum developers to downsample and structure public datasets in ways that support key statistical and scientific learning goals. Check out the paper here.
2024
Congratulations to Helen Fitzmaurice, who received a Best Paper Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences (ISLS)! Check out the winning paper, Activism or Bureaucracy: What Are We Teaching Students Through Local Climate Action Projects?.
Congratulations to Brendan Henrique, who won first place in the Graduate Student Research competition at the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2024) for his presentation, titled Exploring K-12 Teachers’ Trajectories of Engagement with Critically Conscious Computing