University of California at Irvine

With this award, Santagta will develop strategies to help junior scholars cope with the challenges of building research careers while pursuing research-practice partnerships.

Do the International Academies, an approach designed to meet the academic needs of English Learners, improve their school performance and attainment?

How can schools design teacher professional development to incorporate asset-based, culturally relevant approaches to math instruction for Latinx students?

How can research-practice partnerships use research in ways that forward anti-racism understanding and action within K-12 schools?

How can school districts identify and support new teachers to develop the necessary pedagogical skills to teach ethnic studies?

Do school choice plans that prioritize families in underserved neighborhoods reduce educational inequality for low-income students and students of color?

Do ethnic studies courses reduce racial and ethnic inequalities in students’ academic and socio-emotional outcomes?

Does diverting first time youth offenders from the court system have long-term benefits as they transition to adulthood?

Cauffman will use this award to develop more effective mentoring relationships, promote the goals of young scholars of color, and help them in overcoming the unique challenges they face.

Turney seeks to develop strategies to help students cultivate independent research agendas, and to heighten her capacity for mentoring across difference.

What are the consequences of paternal incarceration on children’s well-being?

In this mixed-methods study, Simpkins and her colleagues will focus on the role of culture. They will use data about Latino families and the activities that Latino youth participate in.

How do staff at youth programs acquire and use research to inform their program designs and practices?

Investigators will prepare the Promising Practices Rating System (PPRS), an observational measure of process quality in after-school programs developed in our earlier research, so that it can be used more broadly for research and program development purposes.