The MSU Office of K-12 Outreach maintains a team of veteran educators in Detroit who support the work of improving student achievement in the schools of Detroit and the surrounding areas. Working with partners like the Skillman Foundation and Detroit...

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...

A paid fellowship opportunity, offered on a competitive basis, the program includes a seven-week summer fellowship opportunity working with City of Detroit children and families and work with Detroit schools and community agencies to provide literacy...

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...

MSU's Graduate Certification in Community Engagement prepares students for academic and professional careers that integrate scholarship with community engagement. The Certification is designed to help graduate and professional students develop system...

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...

Guest on Frank Beckmann show talking about social media in education on WJR Detroit.

Clinical placements for pre internship and internship teacher education candidates.

Through the support of the CREATE for STEM researchers and developers, teachers receive additional training on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) performance expectations, the features of Project-Based Learning (PBL), and the shift to phenomena...

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...

The goal is to enhance the ability of educators to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in culturally responsive ways by using areas outside of the classroom—and to examine how this type of learning affects students from high-povert...

The Table meet monthly with a variety of organizations that provide literacy supports to Detroit children and their families. The mission is to create an overall evaluation plan to monitor the literacy development of the population of Detroit through...

Shaunak Bopardikar participated in the 2020 Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP)-MEEP, which places pre-college students from the Detroit area in activities designed to attract them to STEM fields. He designed an activity for grade 1...

This research entails evaluating and/or developing wastewater treatment systems, waste to resource technologies, decision support models, and practices to retain nutrients in soil to maximize beneficial plant uptake.

Partnered with 150 students, faculty and staff to provide engaging hands-on activities to 350 4-8th grade girls with a goal to expose to the wide field of engineering.

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...

Provide technical assistance and training for NAP webinars and conferences.

This charrette was a partnership between DNR-Wildlife Division and the National Charrette Institute; It focused on understanding what residents of Ionia and Montcalm counties know about chronic wasting disease in white tailed deer and what their info...

Pre-College Activity Programming Planning Policy development Practice

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...