Mollie Blackburn
Principal Investigator: Mollie Blackburn, Teaching and Learning
Project Dates: 10/01/2016 – 09/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $125,000
Project Sponsor: Indiana University
Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center: Civil rights training and advisory services-equity assistance centers program
The MAP EAC builds on our extensive experience providing TA and leading in other educational research and practice roles across local, state, and national arenas before and during our current configuration as the EAC for Region V: The Great Lakes Equity Center. The mission of the MAP Equity Assistance Center is to ensure equity in student access to and participation in high quality, research-based education by expanding states’ and school systems’ capacities to provide robust, effective opportunities to learn for all students, regardless of and responsive to race, sex, national origin, and religion, and to eliminate inequities in educational access, participation, and outcome among and between groups. The MAP EAC will provide free on-site and online TA at the request of school boards, states, local school districts, and other governmental agencies for the preparation, adoption, and implementation of plans for the desegregation of public schools in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Our three-tiered TA framework incorporates activities that are simultaneously research-based, data-driven, and outcome-focused as well as available to all potential public school personnel, students, families, community member and organization partners throughout Region III states. Tier 1 TA activities relate to the development and dissemination of educational equity research, resources, and information through our website and a variety of online and print formats; Tier 2 activities consist of developing and facilitating diverse stakeholder learning networks across Region III states; Tier 3 activities involve sustained, systemic educational equity-focused partnerships with states, districts, schools, and/or other government agencies. For more information, go here.
Ana-Paula Correia
Principal Investigator: Ana-Paula Correia, Educational Studies
Project Dates: 07/08/2016 – 06/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $13,838
Project Sponsor: Iowa State University
Toxicology mentoring and skills development training program
David Julian
Principal Investigator: David Julian, Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE)
Co-Investigators: Robert Mahlman; Melissa Ross
Project Dates: 07/01/2016 – 06/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $25,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
Head Start collaboration project
Laura Justice
Principal Investigator: Laura Justice, Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)
Project Dates: 07/01/2016 – 06/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $112,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
Early childhood education expansion grant – Year 2016-2017
Laura Justice
Principal Investigator: Laura Justice, Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)
Co-Investigators: Jaclyn Dynia; Mihaiela Gugiu
Project Dates: 07/01/2016 – 06/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $280,802
Project Sponsor: Summit County Educational Service Center
Sit together and read – Ohio: STAR-Ohio
Laura Justice
Principal Investigator: Laura Justice, Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)
Project Dates: 09/01/2016 – 02/28/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $76,876
Project Sponsor: FutureReady Columbus
City of Columbus’ pre-kindergarten initiative
Elaine Richardson
Principal Investigator: Elaine Richardson, Teaching and Learning
Project Dates: 02/27/2016 – 03/31/2016
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $2,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Humanities Council
2016 Hiphop Literacies Conference black women and girls’ lives matter
The Ohio State University Hiphop Literacies Conference (HHLC) is a community literacy conference that provides a space for community dialogue and reflection upon issues that are relevant to lives of Hiphop generation youth, in relation to education, healthcare, overall well-being and cultural development. The Hiphop Studies Working Group (HHSWG) is the driving force behind the conference. The HHSWG encourages interdisciplinary research, teaching and outreach within and outside of The Ohio State University around Hiphop culture. The humanities disciplines that lend themselves to this project include history, linguistics, rhetoric, language studies, communication, music, art, cultural/race studies, and gender and sexuality studies. The HHSWG promotes the educational and social value of Hiphop and its universal and cross-cultural dimensions. There is no board. We are run entirely by volunteer students, faculty and committee members. This is the group’s sixth year of existence. Our usual activities include exchanging ideas among educators, researchers, youth and youth advocates around the country, through publishing, social media, outreach through extracurricular programs in the city, and hosting the HHLC.
Teresa Shiverdecker
Principal Investigator: Teresa Shiverdecker, Ohio Resource Center
Project Dates: 08/16/2016 – 08/15/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $2,015,372
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
Nonfiction texts in inquiry-based science, K-5
NonFiction Texts in Inquiry-based Science (NFTI Science-pronounced nifty) is a professional development program focusing on the seamless integration of nonfiction text into inquiry-based science. The program is composed of three components: NFTI Science for Grades 3 – 5, NFTI Science for Grades K – 2, and NFTI Science Text Set Conferences. NFTI Science is quasi-experimental research using a pre/post-test design with a control group. The project’s goals are to: 1) Increase the science content knowledge of grades K – 5 teachers and trainers and 2) Improve student achievement in science content. Project participants are primarily grades K – 5 teachers.
NFTI Science for Grades 3 – 5 is a two-year professional development (PD) program for elementary teachers who teach science in grades 3-5. The program utilizes a train-the-trainer model in which a teacher-facilitator is trained in standards-based science content, inquiry pedagogy, and strategies for integrating nonfiction texts. NFTI Science is a three-year program or Trainer-Facilitators. The teacher-facilitator then trains other teachers from their district and others in the area. The program’s goals are to 1) Increase the science content knowledge of grades 3-5 teachers and trainers and 2) Improve student achievement in science content, science practices, and relevant literacy skills. This is a three-year program for Teacher-Facilitators and a two-year program for teachers. Partners for this program include Teays Valley Local Schools, the Ohio State University, Capital University, and the Teaching and Learning Collaborative. Twenty-two Teacher-Facilitators have been trained.
NFTI Science for Grades K – 2 is a two-year professional development program with 120 hours of PD each year. The program consists of 40 hours of PD during the academic year followed by 80 hours in the summer. Year 1 of the program focuses primarily on earth and life science. Year 2 focuses primarily on physical science. When possible and appropriate content is integrated across science disciplines. NFTI staff and STEM faculty deliver all Grades K – 2 PD. Sixty teachers from across Ohio are participating in the program. NFTI staff and STEM faculty deliver all K – 2 PD.
NFTI Science Text Set Conferences are two-day conference in which participating teams of K – 5 or 6 – 8 educators learn how to construct science-themed text sets. Teams consist of teachers, librarians, curriculum directors, literacy coaches, or principals. During the two-day conference teams experience an inquiry-based science unit that fully integrates a nonfiction text set, learn to select appropriate science-themed texts, learn how nonfiction texts support science learning, and work on developing a text set. The conferences serve up to twenty teams of five from districts across Ohio. Each of the teams is expected to develop two science-themed text sets. These sets will then be reviewed and published online. NFTI staff leads the conferences with support from STEM faculty.
Natasha Slesnick
Principal Investigator: Natasha Slesnick, Human Sciences
Project Dates: 10/01/2016 – 09/30/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $351,616
Project Sponsor: Ohio Office of Attorney General
2016-2017 VOCA grant: OSU STAR House
Operating costs for OSU STAR House.
Principal Investigator: Terrell Strayhorn, Educational Studies
Terrell Strayhorn
Project Dates: 06/01/2016 – 05/31/2017
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $101,739
Project Sponsor: Franklin County Children Services
The 3 E’s of success: An intervention strategy for black male urban youth
This project includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive culturally-relevant, multidimensional program promoting healthy children and families by helping to educate, empower, and employ clinically referred, juvenile justice involved African American adolescent males in diverse communities throughout Franklin County, Ohio.