About CASTLE

Meet the Team

Connecting RIT education research, classroom practice, and community.

The Center for Advancing Scholarship to Transform Learning is a network of faculty, projects and programs engaged in scholarship surrounding education in STEM disciplines and other fields.

CASTLE’s mission is to advance higher education through both foundational and applied education research. We bring together scholars from across RIT and beyond, providing the infrastructure, resources, and collaborative networks needed to investigate learning within and across disciplines. CASTLE supports research that spans dimensions of learning from individual cognition to institutional transformation, secures funding, disseminates discoveries, and mentors the next generation of education researchers, scholars, and workforce leaders.

CASTLE’s Bylaws

Mission

To improve science and math education and outreach initiatives at RIT and foster collaboration between science and math educators and education researchers.

Vision

  • Foster and grow a community engaged in rigorous, discipline-based STEM education research, providing infrastructure and opportunities for interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
  • Support scholarship of pedagogy and teaching & learning, including transformational STEM educational practices.
  • Broaden participation in STEM through outreach, research and programmatic innovations.

Annual Reports