All Stars Partners with Rutgers GSE
Rutgers Graduate School of Education (GSE)
is partnering with the All Stars Project Inc. to enhance research and
initiatives dedicated to after school programing. For the past 30 years,
All Stars has opened after-school developmental programs for youth
living in urban areas across the country. Now, with the help of the GSE,
All Stars will work to establish a professional field of developmental
after-school programs and promote research in that field as a cornerstone of a new
innovative approach to addressing poverty and youth development issues
in urban communities throughout the United States. Learn more by
contacting Dr. Carrie Lobman at carrie.lobman@gse.rutgers.edu.
Empowering Parents through SALSA: A Community-Based Service Learning and Research Partnership
This program highlights SALSA (Students Advancing Literary Skills in
Adults), a service learning and research initiative that will provide
Rutgers students as trained English language conversation partners to
ESL immigrant youth and their parents in New Brunswick. The SALSA project was designed and is being implemented by the Civic Engagement
and Service Education Partnership, under the guidance of Amy Michael, senior program administrator. In partnership with Youth Empowerment
Services (YES), the project will help community members improve their
English proficiency and knowledge about U.S. culture. The results will
include an evaluation of the impact of the conversations with both
Rutgers students and the community participants. In addition, the
production of a parent guide is planned. Learn more by contacting Dr.
Curran at mary.curran@gse.rutgers.edu.
Urban Teaching Fellows
The Rutgers Graduate School of Education's Urban Teaching Fellows (UTF) program
develops excellent new teachers for urban schools, serving low-income
communities. The program is designed to build on the strengths of
students and their communities, providing teacher education candidates
with opportunities to work with youth in varied settings, while gaining
practical and theoretical understandings of urban education. UTF builds
civic capacity across K-12 and university settings, fostering engaged
teaching and learning, strong mentoring relationships, and critical
inquiry among youth, fellows, and teachers.
The
Bilingual Math and Science Story Time Series: Bringing Math and Science
to Life through Reading and Art for Preschoolers in a Community-Based
Setting
This
program was designed through a collaboration between the New Brunswick
Free Public Library (NBFPL) and Rutgers National Institute for Early
Education Research (NIEER.) The pilot project during 2012 involved
development and implementation of the Math and Science Story Time Series
(MASST) for young children ages 3-6 years who speak English or Spanish.
The MASST program will be repeated during summer 2013 at the NBFPL. The
program uses engaging, integrative, community-based learning approaches
to increase access to math and science for young children. The pilot
program succeeded in exposing children and their families to new science
and math content, increased community awareness of and participation in
NBFPL programs for young children, enhanced the library's existing
resources for use beyond the scope of the project, and provided NIEER
with knowledge about effective transfer of resources and practices from
school-based to community-based settings. Learn more by contacting Dr.
Lange at alange@nieer.org.
