Anti-Racism Interactive Science Education

Anti-Racism Interactive Science Education (ARISE) explores how open educational resources (OERs), combined with research-tested pedagogical patterns, can be used by teachers to customize interactive science units to promote antiracism while enhancing student agency. The ARISE partnership includes teachers from culturally varied Bay Area schools, learning sciences researchers, science discipline experts, software designers, and advisors who are leaders in anti-racism. The ARISE partnership identifies OERs with the potential to advance anti-racism and studies how these resources, when used by teachers to customize technology-rich interactive science units, can strengthen science understanding, build student agency, and promote racial equity. We investigate how incorporating anti-racism OERs can promote equity by connecting understanding of science with the commitment to oppose racism.