Goal of project is to identify and understand key challenges facing PK-12 schools in Michigan's rural areas. To understand how current state policies relate to these challenges, and identify potential changes in policy that would improve circumstance...

This activity was interrupted by the pandemic. The K12 Partnership group was comprised of clinical experience-focused faculty in the Teacher Preparation Program and district and school leaders from key K12 partners. The goals were to: - reduce finan...

Developed and carried out a professional learning (PL) approach to support middle school science teachers support of students' motivation in the context of science instruction aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. The PL included a 3-da...

The goal of the current research is to develop the M-PLANS (Motivation - Planning Lessons to Activate eNgagement in Science) toolkit and professional development model for supporting student motivation and engagement in middle school science classroo...

We had received a grant to produce a series of training modules meant to train key sport stakeholders (administrators, coaches and parents) about how to prevent abuse in youth sports. We have partnered with the National Alliance for Youth Sports as t...

USAID Empowered Youth is a five-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to empower Kenyan youth ages 18-24 years old and adolescent girls ages 15-19 years old by increasing their prospective economic opp...

The Institute for the Study of Youth Sport (ISYS) at Michigan State to offer a Youth Physical Activity and Well-being (YPAW) program in an underserved community with the goal to demonstrate that if youth (ages 8-14 years) are exposed to a physical ac...

The Urban Educators Cohort Program collaborated with two Lansing Public Schools and created a partnership where UECP students could support needs as well as learn from the expertise of the teachers/staff. During the Fall 2021 semester, the initiative...

This initiative provided professional learning support for in-service teachers to improve the teaching and learning of science specifically and STEM more broadly. Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools Community District were the primary participants...

This project provides brief, 3-session teleconsultation for parents/caregivers of children with social, emotional, and/or behavioral concerns as they navigate implementing structure, routines, and home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This proj...

This project trains community-based mental health clinicians (psychologists and social workers) in Regulation of Emotional Lability in Autism Spectrum Disorder through Caregiver Supports (RELACS), a parent-mediated ER intervention for preschool-aged ...

My research team collaborated with a local psychological clinic to examine predictors of parent participation and engagement in an evidence-based parent training known as Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). The research examined clinical data co...

I provided training in an established developmental screening system, the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) to three daycare/preschool centers in the central and southeastern regions of MI. The focus of the study was to understand feasibility of tr...

Worked with middle school science teachers (and other motivation researchers and science education experts) to co-design and test professional learning to aid middle school science teachers in supporting students' motivation in engagement.

EPIC partners with the MI Department of Education (MDE) to study the Partnership model of school and district turnaround, provide feedback to MDE and other state and local policymakers about the reform and its effects, and ways for continuous improve...

This is an ongoing study in Partnership with MDE and CEPI, at the request of the state legislature, to help the state understand the impact of the pandemic on K12 student learning, and to understand how districts are working to address interrupted le...

This is a study in partnership with MDE, CEPI, and UM at the request of the State Board of Education to understand the implementation and impacts of the Read by Grade Three Law on student, educator, and school outcomes.

This is a study, at the request of the state legislature, EPIC is doing in partnership with MDE and CEPI.

Since January of 2017, I have been collaborating with the Refugee Development Center, a local grassroots, nonprofit organization. Together, we have built a research-practice partnership (Penuel & Gallagher, 2017) characterized by mutual goals relativ...

I met with a team at the Michigan Department of Education to create guidance for districts to create a more useful, valid, and efficient assessment system with plans for adapting to a virtual environment.

I analyzed the classification accuracy of an elementary school's reading screening assessments. With a colleague who conducted a cost benefit analysis, we presented the results to the school, at a conference, and will be submitting a manuscript for p...

I co-chair the 313 Reads Evaluation for Equity and Impact table. We meet monthly with a variety of organizations that provide literacy supports to Detroit children and their families. The mission for the table is to create an overall evaluation plan ...

Co-designing curriculum, teaching and learning practices with youth and community educators that historicize, contextualize, affirm, and extend the identities, experiences, literacy and learning practices of African immigrant youth.

In spring 202,1 I launched and sustained through summer 2021 and spring 2022 a community-engaged literacy and learning research project with African immigrant youth. Youth named our participatory, design-based, after-school literacy research collabor...

As part of a funded training grant I direct, I am working in collaboration with various organizations in the community (Michigan Education Corps, school districts, institutions of higher education) to help make school psychology training more accessi...