Rossella Santagata is a research grantee who is implementing a design-based intervention to improve teachers’ mathematics instruction for Latinx students. Santagata has mentored twelve doctoral students, including six who identify as students of color. Santagata has led school-wide initiatives aimed at developing knowledge and skills to mentor junior scholars and graduate students. Santagata will use this award to develop strategies to help junior scholars cope with the challenges of building research careers while pursuing research-practice partnerships. Santagata will also create a method to track student milestones that values working collaboratively and forming successful mentoring relationships alongside traditional metrics of doctoral student progress. Santagata’s mentee, Patricia Fuentes Acevedo, is a Chilean doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine. Fuentes Acevedo’s goals include conducting community-engaged research to reduce inequalities in mathematics learning, sharpening her English language written and oral communication skills, and developing a professional network. Fuentes Acevedo will also provide research assistance on Santagata’s Foundation-funded project. Under Santagata’s guidance, Fuentes Acevedo will use observational methods to examine codesign practices at a school site, conduct thematic analyses of the resulting data, and use this data to complete her dissertation.
With this award, Santagta will develop strategies to help junior scholars cope with the challenges of building research careers while pursuing research-practice partnerships.
