{"id":1328,"date":"2025-09-01T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:35:09","slug":"caire-received-the-wsu-faculty-seed-grant-to-support-k-12-stem-teachers-ai-literacy-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/2025\/09\/01\/caire-received-the-wsu-faculty-seed-grant-to-support-k-12-stem-teachers-ai-literacy-development\/","title":{"rendered":"CAIRE received the WSU Faculty Seed Grant to support K-12 STEM teachers\u2019 AI literacy development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\" wsu-font-size--xxmedium\">CAIRE Research Lab faculty member <strong>Dr. Peng He<\/strong> (Department of Teaching and Learning) has received a <strong>2025 New Faculty Seed Grant<\/strong> to support his project <em>Building Community-Engaged Partnerships to Develop K-12 STEM Teacher AI Literacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Faculty Seed Grant is an internal funding program at Washington State University designed to <strong>encourage new, junior-level faculty to develop research, scholarly, or creative programs<\/strong> that can lead to sustained professional development and future extramural funding. The program provides early support for innovative research ideas and helps faculty position their work for larger external awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. He\u2019s funded project focuses on building a <strong>Community of Practice (CoP)<\/strong> that co-designs professional learning workshops to help K-12 STEM teachers integrate AI literacy into their instruction. Using a <strong>Human Inquiry\u2013AI\u2013Human Empowerment framework<\/strong>, the project will iteratively develop, pilot, and refine AI literacy resources with teachers in Eastern Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This grant underscores Dr. He\u2019s commitment to community-engaged research and the development of teacher-centered, responsible AI education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/orap.wsu.edu\/funding\/internal\/new-faculty-seed-grant\/\">New Faculty Seed Grant program<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRE Research Lab faculty member Dr. Peng He (Department of Teaching and Learning) has received a 2025 New Faculty Seed Grant to support his project Building Community-Engaged Partnerships to Develop K-12 STEM Teacher AI Literacy. The New Faculty Seed Grant is an internal funding program at Washington State University designed to encourage new, junior-level faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44196,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}