Mahmoud works on initiatives that make data literacy and data science education more accessible for every K-12 student across all subject areas. This commitment underscores the importance of continuing to collaborate with CSTA on developing the Data and Analysis topic from the updated standards. It also points to the need that prompted the creation of the National Learning Progressions for K-12 Data Science (https://datasciencelearning.org/ ), which provide a framework for how data skills progress across grade levels.

We hope educators from state leaders to classroom teachers will use these progressions and the updated standards to write curricula, develop assessments, and create data driven learning experiences. We will continue collaborating with CSTA as well as other subject area organizations to develop subject specific learning progressions across all grades and disciplines.

Ultimately, we envision creating a hub with classroom ready datasets and lessons. These resources will be aligned to the updated standards and learning progressions to help educators integrate data literacy and data science into their regular instructional practices.