inquiryHub (iHub) includes key personnel from two core institutions: Denver Public Schools and the University of Colorado Boulder. The partnership began in 2008 with two concurrent projects involving middle school science that combined in 2012 to address curriculum and instruction in high school math and science.
Denver Public Schools
Denver Public Schools (DPS) is Colorado's largest school district. iHub partners from DPS are leaders in mathematics and science areas of DPS's Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Math and science teachers from DPS also serve as partners in the co-design process.
Douglas Watkins, Secondary Science Coordinator
Susan Olzene, Director of Science, Social Studies, and World Languages
Cathy Martin, Executive Director, Curriculum and Instruction
University of Colorado Boulder
iHub partners come from both CU-Boulder's School of Education and Institute of Cognitive Science.
- Tamara Sumner, iHub Principal Investigator, Cognitive Science and Computer Science
- Bill Penuel, iHub Co-Principal Investigator, Learning Sciences
- Jennifer Jacobs, Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Science
- Anna-Ruth Allen, Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Science
- Quentin Biddy, Research Associated, Institute of Cognitive Science
- Yasko Endo, Program Manager, Institute of Cognitive Science
- Kerri Wingert, Research Associate, Learning Sciences
- Kate Hensen, Research Associate, Learning Sciences
- Ali Raza, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Contributors
Complex Tasks Require Diverse Expertise: inquiryHub brings other organizations into the partnership depending on the given needs of the project
Northwestern University and the Next Generation Science Storylines team is sharing in the work to create new high school biology curriculum. This collaboration between Northwestern and the Inquiry Hub partnership is funded by
the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
When work on the biology curriculum began in 2014, the Inquiry Hub team collaborated with BSCS, a well-known publisher of biology curriculum. The Inquiry Hub partnership between BSCS and CU-Boulder was another step in a long history that goes back to BSCS's origins, when the first BSCS biology curriculum was drafted on the CU-Boulder campus during the summer of 1960. The Inquiry Hub's biology curriculum efforts have included other community organizations, such as Denver Parks and Recreation and the National Ecological Observatory Network.
Flexibility in the partnership has always been important for applying the right people and resources on the task at hand. For example, the American Geological Institute and It's About Time were partners during the Curriculum Customization Service project, which focused on supporting an Earth Science curriculum.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a consortium of over 100 universities focused on atmospheric and Earth system sciences. The Digital Learning Sciences group in UCAR's Center for Science Education creates and supports tools for educators to manage digital content.