Research
Publications
3D-RST Team to Lead Roundtable Discussions at AERA Conference
"Recognizing the Impact to TMLS Lesson Study"
3D-RST Team to Present at the ASTE 2025 Conference
"Three-Dimensional Science Teaching for Rural Spaces:
Capturing Evidence of Teacher Change in Knowledge and Practice."
New Study Published: Highlights a Decade of 3-Dimensional Science Education Implementation
"Ten Years of Three-Dimensional Science and Its Implementation in the Secondary Classroom: A Scoping Review"
Social Networks of Rural Science Teachers Explored in 3D-RST Sage Journals Publication
"Uncovering the Connections Among Rural Science Teachers: A Social Network Analysis"
Research Published on Technology-Mediated Lesson Study
"Technology-Mediated Lesson Study: A Step-By-Step Guide"
3D-RST Paper Wins Outstanding Paper Award at SITE 2023
"Technology-Mediated Lesson Study: Improving Rural Science Teachers"
Presentations
2025 AERA Conference - Roundtable Discussion with Heather Leary
"Evaluating Technology-Mediated Lesson Study with Rural Science Teachers"
2025 AERA Conference - Presentation by Rebecca Sansom & Tracy Poulsen
"This is My Department: Building Deep Professional Collaborations at a Distance for Rural Science Teachers"
2025 ASTE Conference - Presentation by 3D-RST team
"Three-Dimensional Science Teaching for Rural Spaces:
Capturing Evidence of Teacher Change in Knowledge and Practice"
2024 NSTA Conference - Presentation by Rebecca Sansom & Doug Morris
"Wave Properties of Light Using 3-Dimensional Science"
2024 AECT Conference - 3D Science Presentation by Michelle Hudson & Heather Leary
"Advancing Three-Dimensional Science Instructions with Rural Teachers using Technology-Mediated Lesson Study"
2024 AECT Conference - TMLS Presentation by Michelle Hudson & Heather Leary
"Applying and Adapting Technology-Mediated Lesson Study: A Study with Rural Teachers"
2024 NRMERA Conference - Presentation by Heather Leary
"Technology-Mediated Lesson Study: Improving rural Secondary Science Teaching Practices"
2024 URSA Conference
Teacher Participants present at Utah Rural Schools Association
2024 SABER Conference - Presentation by Clara Smith
A study of the significant results observed in the teaching of 3D Science standards after of a year long professional development learning program is created for rural science teachers.
2024 ISLS Conference - Presentation by Michelle Hudson & Heather Leary
"Using Technology Mediated Lesson Study with Rural Teachers to Improve Three-Dimensional Science Instruction"
2024 NSTA Conference - Presentation by Josh Stowers & Doug Morris
"Using Lactose Intolerance to Investigate the Variation and Patterns in the Distribution of Traits Expressed in a Population"
2024 NSTA Conference - Presentation by Josh Stowers & Doug Morris
"Deriving Newton's 2nd Law Using the 3-Dimensions"
2024 NARST Conference - Presentation by Rebecca Sansom & Clara Smith
"Essential Elements of Technology Mediated Lesson Study (TMLS) Cycles: A Study with Rural Science Teachers"
2023 NRMERA Conference - Presentations by Clara Smith and Rebecca Sansom
"Changes in Teacher Understanding of 3D Science from Participation in Technology-Mediated Lesson Study"
"Rural Secondary Science Teachers' Professional Networks Before and After Professional Development: Social Network Analysis"
2023 SITE Conference - Presentation by Michelle Hudson, Rebecca Sansom, & Others
"Technology-Mediated Lesson Study: Improving Rural Science Teachers’ Three-Dimensional Science Teaching Practices"
2023 URSA Conference - Presentation by Jens Andreasen & Kelly Peterson
"Making Lessons Relatable for Students"
2023 URSA Conference - Presentation by Jami Riley & Julie Castellon
"Using SEEd and 3D Science to Transform Your Teaching"
2023 URSA Conference - Presentation by Douglas Morris & Thomas Wilder
"Collaborative Lesson Study: Using the Power of Technology"
2023 DRK-12 PI Meeting - Presentation by Rebecca Sansom, Angelina Castagno, & Others
"Professional Development for Culturally Responsive STEM Teaching in Diverse Rural Communities"
2023 ISLS Conference - Presentation by Michelle Hudson, Rebecca Sansom, & Others
"Technology-Mediated Lesson Study: Facilitating Three-Dimensional Science with Rural Science Teachers"
2023 ISLS Conference - Presented by Bryan Holder, Max Longhurst, & Others
"Rural Science Teachers Collaborative Design and Iterative Implementation of Three-Dimensional Lessons"
2023 ASTE Conference - Presentation by Tracy Poulsen, Rebecca Sansom, & Others
"The Implications of Technology-Mediated Lesson Study in the Professional Learning of Rural Science Teachers"
2022 NRMERA Conference - Presentation by Rebecca Sansom, Tracy Poulsen, & Others
"Uncovering the Connections between Rural Science Teachers"
2022 URSA Conference - Presented by Rebecca Sansom & Heather Leary
"SEEd Standards: Science in Three Dimensions!"
What We Are Reading
Articles and books the Project Leadership Team is reading
- Social Network Theory and Educational Change
- Edited by Alan J. Daly
- Foreword by Judith Warren Little (Harvard Educational Press 2010)
- Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: The State of the Field
Lesson Study
- Lesson Study Step by Step: How Teachers Learning Communities Improve Instruction
- By Jacqueline Hurd, Catherine Lewis (Heinemann 2011)
- How does lesson study work? Toward a Theory of Lesson Study Process and Impact.
- Lewis et al. (2019)
- From Theory and Practice of Lesson Study in Mathematics (R. Huang et al., eds.)
- Online Lesson Study: Virtual Teaming in a New Normal
3D Science
- Three-Dimensional Learning
- The Crosscutting Concepts; Critical Component of “Third Wheel” of Three-Dimensional Learning?
- Integrating science and engineering practices: Outcomes from a Collaborative Professional Development
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
- If Indigenous Peoples Stand with the Sciences, Will Scientists Stand with Us?
- Commentary: Designing Science Instructional Materials that Contribute to More Just, Equitable, and Culturally Thriving Learning and Teaching in Science Education.