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Supporting science and math instructors in eliciting and engaging with all students' disciplinary thinking

The Listening Project is a community of Tufts faculty and graduate students in the natural sciences and mathematics focused on listening to students' disciplinary thinking.

We formed in response to a challenge framed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for U.S. colleges and universities to "substantially and sustainably increase their capacity for inclusion of all students, especially those students who belong to groups underrepresented in science."

...my whole thought process about hearing what students have to say has just, uh, blown up— expanded into areas that I never thought it would go...

The Listening Project is supported by a grant to Tufts University from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Science Education Program.