A film festival of filmic adaptations of poems, presented online. Peter Johnston organized the event, gathered the filmmakers, connected them with poets, organized the screening and did the publicity. The goals are to create new art, spur students to...

A collection of creative sound-making and space-making activities that provide asset-based programming for youth and the general public with a tri-fold focus on literacy formation in youth, development of local artists' teaching capacity, and buildin...

Consulting with Renee Wallace, executive director of FoodPlus on a variety of her projects related to food systems in Detroit and Flint. These include helping her develop a proposal for a cooperative project with other MSU faculty.

A group, selected by Governor Whitmer, to study, examine research, and then recommend changes for women and girls in sports in Michigan.

MSU Professors Joe Grimm and Geri Alumit Zeldes worked with Publisher Pat Rencher of Urban Aging News that features news on older adults and their caregivers.

The project is funded by Lucas Education Research and integrating science, literacy, and mathematics at an elementary level to support a range of students in learning science that align with the Next Generation of Science Standards. Applying randomiz...

The Teacher Education Academy does outreach to students attending urban high schools and have them participate in a 2-week residential program. Students take courses (Examining Topics in Urban Education, College Readiness, etc.) with College of Educa...

The Early Success Scholars program does outreach to incoming College of Education students of Color and invite them to participate in a 4-week residential program. Students take courses (TE101, Anatomy Seminar, etc.) with College of Education faculty...

Our team is in the fourth and final year of an evaluation of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation of Metro Lansing. At the national level, the goal of TRHT is to "eradicate the belief in a racialized hierarchy of human value and the structural an...

The Office of College Access Initiatives: Project #1 Upward Bound of MSU To prepare college bound high school students for success in post-secondary institutions. To follow and support underrepresented youth in post-secondary institutions. Classes ...

We presented a season from Sept. to Dec. and two multi-hour live stream broadcasts in conjunction with SG Dublin and SG Atlanta, and roughly fifteen programming events, focussed on design, both as a form of control, and as a means of community empowe...

We scheduled and executed 5 days of visits to MSU in Feb and March of 2020, before COVID forced us to cancel the remaining 5 dates of visits to MSU. For the 5 dates, we managed to bring 6th-12th grade students, their teachers and in some occasions f...

Saturday Academies are workshops that take place on MSU's campus, once a month. We were only able to fit one in before COVID shut us down and we had to cancel the remaining 3 Saturday programs. Saturday program was a way to connect our outreach in ...

The summer virtual program was created to fulfill a need for our program to have a summer presence as we had been describing to the students throughout the previous year. They had to attend a certain amount of Saturday programs to be invited to our S...

Increase number of early care and education providers utilizing farm to education within Michigan, thus increasing access to local, health, affordable food for ECE settings o Addressing early care and education farm to ECE efforts as a result of COVI...

Outcomes: -Inform national landscape of farm to ECE regarding farm to ECE practices, motivation among providers to engage in farm to ECE, and barriers and how to address them to enable replication; Recognize CRFS as a leader and partner in research a...

Developed an Anishinaabe resource manual with assessed and recommended resources (books, articles, podcasts, videos, etc) that align with the State of Michigan Social Studies Standards; to assist and enhance the role K-12 education plays in respectfu...

Monthly virtual 8th grade classroom meetings via google classroom in classroom in the Lansing School District. Program goals: Help participants reach their goals. Provide information about educational opportunities beyond high school Show alterna...

Tribal Early Childhood Research Center; Build network of tribal early childhood program administrators, TTA providers, federal partners, and researchers to develop a tribal early childhood research agenda. Together, we 1) train emerging scholars, 2) ...

The Capital Area College Access Network is a regional organization in mid-michigan working to with K-16 education, workforce development, and various non-profits with the goal of increasing the percentage of high school graduates with a degree or cer...

Teach, Talent, Thrive (T3) serves as the Career and Educational Advisory Council for Prosperity Region 7. its mission to build a community committed to lifelong learning led by business and community stakeholders to ensure regional prosperity in the ...

Support workforce development projects in various states, counties and tribes encouraging, through technical assistance and training, a positive work culture and partnerships, particularly with university social work programs. Develop resources for r...

This non-profit youth support service has been committed to the development of purpose-driven individuals through education, personal growth, arts, industry and sports for many years. I have worked with them to implement a curriculum, together with t...

Suggested the novel and then facilitated a discussion among all of the employees of this non-profit organization based in Detroit. Toni Morrison's SULA led to a wonderful discussion of literature, the genre of the novel, and issues of gender, sexuali...

Provided logistical and teaching support to faculty/ practitioners who include community engaged teaching and learning in their classrooms.