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Collaborative for STEM Education and Outreach
Vanderbilt Collaborative for STEM Education and Outreach (CSEO) is dedicated to enhancing literacy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through unique partnerships between university scientists, K-12 educators and students, and the local and global science community.
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Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab
The Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab (EBRL) seeks to understand why some children are successful at learning to read while others are not. Using neuroimaging and behavioral testing, the lab's NIH- and NSF-funded studies investigate reading comprehension, Neurofibromatosis Type 1, and the effects of reading interventions in children with and without reading difficulties.
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Initiative for Race Research and Justice
The goal of the Initiative for Race Research and Justice is to centralize and bring together research and researchers focused on race inside and outside the field of education, studying and influencing practices and policies toward racial justice.
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IRIS Center
The IRIS Center is a national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age twenty-one, through the use of effective evidence-based practices and interventions.
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The Learning Incubator: a Vanderbilt Endeavor (LIVE)
A Peabody and School of Engineering collaboration, LIVE will leverage consequential learning, innovative design, and computational thinking to incubate digital platforms, tools, and socio-technical solutions; produce new models of computer-mediated teaching and learning; and address socially relevant and urgent problems of practice and research.
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Nashville Partnership for Educational Equity Research (PEER)
PEER, which launched in September 2021, is a research-practice partnership between Peabody College and Metro Nashville Public Schools focused on the district's core commitment to identify and eliminate educational inequities.
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National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention
A consortium funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, the National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention-2 (NCLII-2) prepares special education leaders to have expertise in meeting the intense service needs of students with complex and comorbid learning disabilities and behavior disorders.
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Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center
The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center translates research on the best public investments into state policy actions that produce results for young children and society.
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Programs for Talented Youth (PTY)
Vanderbilt Programs for Talented Youth offers accelerated courses for advanced and high-achieving students in Kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Tennessee Education Research Alliance
TERA, one of the only research-practice partnerships in the country focused on state-level education policy, connects Peabody College and the Tennessee Department of Education to expand knowledge in key topic areas. Through TERA, scholars at Vanderbilt and other leading universities carry out high-quality, practical research that informs state-level policy, affects the practice in schools and districts across Tennessee, and contributes to national conversations on K-12 education.
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TennesseeWorks
TennesseeWorks is a statewide partnership of agencies and organizations with one goal: to increase the number of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who are employed in the state.
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Vanderbilt Brain Institute
A community of faculty, staff, students and trainees spread across 24 departments at the university, the Vanderbilt Brain Institute's primary missions are to promote research, education and training in the brain-related disciplines.
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's mission is to facilitate discoveries and best practices to improve the lives of persons with developmental disabilities and their families.