Dr. Eckhoff will guide a teacher learning community of recent graduates as they navigate their first teaching year in a primary grades classroom. Acting as a participant observer, Dr. Eckhoff will facilitate face-to-face and virtual meetings, collect group ... more »

To help novice teachers become more effective classroom practitioners, Athens State University will partner with surrounding school districts to implement the “Tying Excellence with Accountability Mentorship” program. The program will provide recent graduates ... more »

Dr. Morreale will present “Community Resources,” a multidisciplinary service learning course that will engage students in their living and learning communities. Through critical reflection, students will be provided with international, national, and local ... more »

Special education teachers will use iPads to increase student learning and collaboration among educators. Through a hands-on approach to community based learning, educators will present practical lessons on social and communication skills. Students will additionally ... more »

Dr. Rozalski and Mr. Miller will work with a team of educators to collect, review, and teach literature that will develop students’ social skills. The team will develop, present, and evaluate bibliotherapy lessons in an alternative education setting. The team will ... more »

Dr. Acuff will work with educators at a middle school in Columbus, Ohio in a participatory action research project. The cohorts will assess and revise their school curriculum based on reflections from the 2011-2012 academic year. Data obtained from the research will ... more »

Dr. Geier and Mrs. Davis will implement professional development for K-12 administrators at the county school district level. The learning will aim to improve STEM concept knowledge for administrators as they evaluate educators teaching these concepts. The ... more »

Ms. Cummings and Ms. Parsons will participate in the mentoring program of the Journalism Education Association, which will enable them to provide ongoing training and support for new journalism teachers and advisers. Acting as mentors, Ms. Cummings and Ms. Parsons will ... more »

Mrs. Robinson-Carney will strengthen her professional practice and improve her teaching performance by obtaining national board certification. Through a series self assessments? including videotaping classroom sessions, documenting quality instruction and planning, and ... more »

Dr. Rooks will examine individuals who have taken “alternative” pathways into the teaching profession.  Specifically, she will analyze sixty in-depth, semi-structured interviews with participants, staff, and critics of Teach for America, the largest ... more »

Dr. Martens and her colleagues will investigates how global literature— stories with settings outside the US— supports and develops first and second grader students’ intercultural understandings. A study group of seven teachers and two university ... more »

Through a collaborative partnership with county emergency medical services, Dr. Rozalski and Dr. Urso will be prepared to train pre-service teachers to respond to emergency situations and to manage safe environments for medically fragile children in school settings.  ... more »

Mr. Reeser will attend the Certified Welding Educator Seminar and Examination.  As a result, he will be able to provide students with improved learning experiences and better evaluations and assessments.  The increased standards will provide students with a real ... more »

Dr. Robertson will examine the impact of preparatory tools in improving student performance on the Graduate Record Exam.  The goal of the research is to determine if prior preparation improves performance in the specific areas with which students struggle.  By ... more »

Through the project PALS, Dr. McAdams and colleagues will expand on research about the use of live dogs in elementary reading programs.  Recent results indicate that with the PALS programs, literacy scores increased up to thirty five percent compared to children who ... more »

Dr. Roweton will place remotely controlled video and audio digital equipment in local elementary and middle classrooms to train Chadron State College (CSC) Educational Psychology students in observation.  These students will practice coding what they experience ... more »

Drs. Kim and Allison will lead the "Scholars Linking Theory and Practice" project, a collegial study that will evaluate a new teaching strategy for a research course in the Educational Administration Program, which trains future administrative leaders for K-12 ... more »

Twelve faculty members associated with CSU Stanislaus' new doctoral program in Educational Leadership will form a study group to advance skills and competencies associated with both qualitative and quantitative research practices.  The activity will contribute to ... more »

Drs. Fullerton and Guardino will collaborate with teachers to reduce challenging behaviors in inclusive classrooms.  Working collaboratively with six teachers in urban school settings, the group will redesign classrooms using research based modifications.  ... more »

Dr. Wedin will attend the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Mortar & Pestle Seminar to familiarize herself with updates on all major drug classification systems.  The seminar will cover topics related to frequently prescribed medications and the ... more »

Dr. Craig and her partners form a study group to learn about teacher portfolios. The group, which includes new teachers, analyze research and reflect on their instructional strategies to develop portfolios. To share what they learn with colleagues, participants make ... more »

Ms. Oscarson and her partners examine their courses to incorporate geriatric studies into curricula. During monthly meetings, participants discuss and compare pedagogical strategies and learning resources for teaching gerontology. Team members also share examples of ... more »

Ms. Myers and Ms. Mayberry collaborate with local high schools to offer a poetry writing workshop. Students explore poetry by attending a coffeehouse where professional writers and poets read their work.

Collaborating with the American Heart Association, Ms. Chow and Ms. Bryce prepare their students with learning and emotional disabilities for first-aid certification. Students apply mathematical and problem-solving skills to common medical and traumatic emergencies. Through ... more »

Dr. Bell and Ms. Grebski relate technology to everyday life by introducing elementary students to simple machines. Collaborating with university engineering professors and parents, elementary teachers design activities and materials about simple machines that are used for ... more »

Dr. Craig travels to two conferences in England to present her research on the obstacles encountered in school-based reform, including reflections on how standardized testing has evoked contradictory reform methods for principals and teachers. At the conferences, she ... more »

Ms. Bates and her partners implement a mentoring study group for adjunct instructors. Led by full-time faculty, the small groups study best teaching practices, methods for addressing various learning styles, topics in subject matter, uses of Blackboard software, and ... more »

Dr. Rozycki and Dr. Moxley develop community service learning resources to encourage faculty and students to be civically engaged. Study group participants identify best practices to guide civic engagement activities, develop and pilot a multidisciplinary service learning ... more »

Advancing his knowledge on stubble lichens, a group of old-growth forest species, Dr. Selva travels to Washington, DC, and New York City to study lichen collections at a botanical garden and herbarium. Dr. Selva hopes that studying the actual specimens will enhance the ... more »

Dr. Lazarus leads a study group to implement a mentoring program for adjunct faculty. Full-time faculty mentor adjunct instructors by observing classroom instruction and exploring personal theories on pedagogy.

Partnering with local schools, preservice teachers learn about adolescent development and behavior. Dr. Smith and Dr. Shumow solicit documentary autobiographies from adolescents, and edit the videotapes for classroom instruction. Students use the documentaries to reflect on ... more »

Collaborating with the University of Alabama, Ms. Alfreda Williams and Ms. JoAnne Williams create a summer school reading and acting program to improve the literacy skills of their disadvantaged students. Students study Greek mythology and other classical literature and ... more »

To engage middle school students and preservice teachers in mathematics, Dr. Baxter, Ms. Belcher, and Ms. Vitulli use peer instruction and hand-held wireless transmitters. The team models inquiry-based methods of teaching mathematics as students respond to conceptual ... more »

After recognizing that their World English (WE) students—from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria—are being inappropriately placed in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, Ms. Rodriguez-McCleary and her team explore alternative programs ... more »

To address the unique learning needs of the student population and provide instructional support to part-time faculty teaching English 101, Dr. Scott—director of the composition program at the community college—has designed several workshops for new faculty ... more »

Dr. Madsen interviews female university presidents, state governors, and chief executive officers to explore how women learned to become effective leaders. After analyzing the data for trends, she uses her findings to prepare her women students for leadership ... more »

Dr. Furman travels to Nicaragua to identify key variables for facilitating the development of students’ professional identity. As students participate in social work activities, Dr. Furman conducts interviews with them to ascertain what they learned about ... more »

Dr. Yerrick, Ms. Page, and Dr. Carrillo form a study group, which includes elementary school teachers, to identify pedagogies that engage students in science. The team collaboratively plans and implements science lessons and collects data to measure the outcomes on ... more »

A class of preservice teachers at rural University of Montana-Western collaborates with Ms. Seeger and Mr. Ritter, who are elementary teachers in Kansas with urban students. They provide teacher preparation students with experiences that integrate literacy instruction with ... more »

Professor Latterell, who manages mathematics placement testing for college freshman, leads a study group of higher education and high school mathematics teachers to analyze and reform matriculation practices. Currently the standards, instructional strategies, and ... more »

To increase the effectiveness of the economics department at Irvine Valley College, Ms. Stuffler is taking distance-learning assessment theory courses online through Loyola Marymount University. In these courses, Ms. Stuffler examines online and traditional classroom ... more »

Dr. Strange participates in a Round Table Discussion at Harris Manchester College- University of Oxford to learn about K–12 literacy within the policy context of

. Among the roundtable discussion topics are

, assessment and ... more »

Recognizing that the majority of University at Buffalo faculty choose the lecture method of instruction, Ms. Sullivan attends the University of Prince Edward Island Faculty Development Summer Institute, Active Learning and Teaching in University and College to ... more »

Create and implement a replicable, professional development program for pre-service special education teacher candidates at SUNY Geneseo.

Work directly with the Autism Program in Newark, DE to develop an effective curriculum in which to assess and teach physical fitness and motor skill development as it relates to children with Autism for the purpose of improving instruction to undergraduate students ... more »

Implement a study aboard program to improve culture diversity and awareness among low-income participants.

Dr. Saffold and Dr. Mueller lead a group of faculty from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in an examination of how race, socio-economic status, gender, and sexuality affect their teacher preparation courses. By putting these issues on the table, Dr. ... more »

Assistant professors at University of Virginia, including a clinical psychologist, qualitative methodologist, and historian, form a study group to improve instruction in graduate-level courses in education by adding multidisciplinary elements to their coursework. ... more »