This was a continuation of work started in 2019, a collaboration with Merit Networks and 15 rural, Michigan school districts. This outreach-research activity was designed to understand the repercussions of absent or poor home Internet connectivity on...

The activity is an effort to develop conceptual frameworks, methods, and tools to help overcome the discrepancies in access to high-speed Internet connect in Michigan. This project bagan in 2017. Over this academic year work was primarily on sharing ...

I provide services to K-12 districts on promoting strategies for engaging youth as partners in school systems change - academic, school culture, and supportive services for student physical health and psycho-social well-being. This work - a partnersh...

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...

I participated in the 2020 DAPCEP-MEEP, which places pre-college students from the Detroit area in activities designed to attract them to STEM fields. I designed an activity for grade 10-11 students on making informed choices related to renewable ene...

The Cube provides a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user experience research to web and app development. With guided faculty mentorship, ou...

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

Goals: The purpose of this project is to capture and record a series of traditional folktales as told in their original languages (Fongbe, Goun, and Maxi) and make them available in a variety of digital, written, and visual formats for a broader audi...

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...

This is an NIMH-funded effectiveness-implementation hybrid research study examining the benefit of training Part C early intervention providers to use an evidence-based, parent-mediated intervention for young children with social communication delays

Digital archive of photographs from Mali. Managing website, social media posts, communications from broad community, overseeing three undergraduate researchers on the project.

One of my summer classes partnered with Communities in Schools to support their summer programs, specifically with their Reading Buddies program.

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools. Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created a poll to discuss career specific para...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created and exhibited an original slide show, ...

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...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District Purpose: Career Exploration (with Finance emphasis for this workshop) is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created and exhibited an "Extreme...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created and exhibited an original slide show, spotlight young BIPOC entre...

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...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: SEL (Social Emotional Learning) via identification and exploration of one's own learning style, success habits, and self-awareness is one of the pillars of...

Conducted evaluation of 10 Cents a Meal to understand the impact of the program on school children's consumption of Michigan-grown fruits, vegetables and legumes as well as the impact on Michigan's economy and farm/food businesses. Evaluation results...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. By having previous participants share their own career ...

Principals’ efforts to support the implementation of interventions involves coordination among multiple actors in their social networks. However, less is known about how distinct features of these social networks are associated with principals’ perce...

The Greater Lansing African Female Empowerment Program (GLAFEP) seeks to empower African and African American female students in the Greater Lansing area. This is a partnership with the Woven Vessels International ministry and African Female Empowerm...

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...