Drawn primarily from the MSU Broad collection and grounded in matters relevant to the region, InterStates of Mind is an exhibition that takes a critical look at American car culture and the way that the automobile has become a symbol of American valu...

Serve as executive secretary to the board of directors of the School Community Health Alliance of Michigan (SCHA-MI). SCHA-MI is a collaboration of individuals and organizations that represent and support school-based and school-linked health centers...

Cara Poland is on a grant providing training to community physicians and other prescribers to facilitate expansion of substance use disorders (SUD) treatment to pregnant people and in primary care. She has a separate grant specifically focusing on wo...

Ten students were trained in 1st Amendment law, social media law, copyright law, libel law, privacy law, and Freedom of Information Act law and they in turn taught First Amendment Workshops at five Michigan high schools over the course of fall semest...

CMS-D is the largest provider of sequential music education outside of the regular school day for Detroit children. CMS-D provides a wide range of music courses to meet the needs and interests of their student population, including instrumental and v...

The RAMP-UP program was created during the pandemic to address the inequities in access to rigorous arts excellence programs. The Detroit Public Schools Community District's (DPSCD) Detroit School of the Arts's (DSA) Pathways Initiative was created t...

Sponsored by Michigan College Access Network (MCAN), Ready, Set, Audition is a free program to support Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) students of color from low-income families applying to music colleges that require an audition. T...

Community Music School-Detroit offers artist visits to the Detroit Public School Community District providing support to music teachers in different areas.

Karen Salvador directs the early childhood music education programs at MSU's Community Music Schools (CMS) in East Lansing and Detroit. In that role, she selects and mentors early childhood music teachers, works closely with CMS leaders on grantwriti...

Performance with a brass group to encourage the relationship between the arts at Michigan State University and Detroit public schools. The performance took place at S. Took Pl. at the Detroit School of Arts High School.

Conducted strategic planning meetings to strengthen community partnership with the non-profit Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP). Met with the executive director to discuss developing a partnership with the MSU mathematics departme...

This project is developing a database to track students participating in the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP), which is designed to increase interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This project also assesse...

Pre-college students participating in the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program were invited for a 2 hour per day two-day workshop at the Plant Reserach Lab. The workshop was on photosynthesis. Students were also given a tour of the lab.

Services are provided 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 partne...

Partnering with a metro Detroit middle school to investigate the impact of restorative practices on school climate and exclusionary discipline outcomes. The study aims are to: (a) examine whether establishing a restorative justice policy led to less ...

Professional development intervention to support educators' mental health and high quality, relationship based practices with children and families.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are federally funded out-of-school time programs for high-poverty, low-performing schools administered by state departments of education. This project is an ongoing comprehensive evaluation of s...

The Teacher Stress study aims to understand the sources and intensity of stress for Early Head Start teachers, as well as the ways in which teachers cope with their work-related stress. Collected data from teachers in community partner agencies; anal...

Creating a free, publicly available curriculum for infants and toddlers that centers children of color and children in metropolitan environments.

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Club and LVMA (Latinx Veterinary Medical Association) gave six virtual outreach talks to 82 Detroit International Academy (DIA) students. DIA is a public school for young women with a focus on biomedical sci...

Recorded a lecture to be shared with school teachers in partner high school.

Detroit Mastering Academics Demonstrating Excellence (M.A.D.E) Scholars Program focuses on college transition, graduation, and career development for students who have graduated from Detroit public and charter high schools who also reside in the City...

The Alliance is a partnership that is being developed between the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Sylvia Moy Foundation, and Masterpiece Studio to bring educational programming to Detroit communities. Classes in audio recording and mu...

An annual invited talk with educators from high schools, organizations, and groups that support high school aged students to share information on various topics associated with college preparation, transition, and success.

Member of the Social Justice Partnership Committee that is led by the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (Wayne RESA), an agency for schools in Wayne County, Michigan. The group of over 40 professionals within schools and organizations ...