In 2023 I was awarded IES’s first grant within the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions. The Learning and Engaging at a Distance (LEAD) Initiative is a 3-year mixed methods program of research on the use of trauma-informed teaching practices in online learning environments to improve academic outcomes of Black and African-American college students and a set of career-development activities to support the PI's long-term education research goals.
We are now recruiting for Spring 2024! Interested faculty should complete this form: https://forms.gle/ae6RxD2H4y1HyHQ26.
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Since 2020, Black and African-American students who attend college in the United States have an increased likelihood of exposure to one or more traumatic events, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Research has found that many trauma-affected students struggle to engage in traditional school activities, direct their effort and motivation, authentically participate in classroom discussions, and persist to graduation. To support trauma-effected postsecondary students, educators could adopt trauma-informed teaching practices. The PI's research will explore how evidence-based models of trauma-informed online teaching (TIOT) may benefit students taking online classes at historically black colleges and universities as measured by student outcomes and perceptions. Specifically, this project will answer the following questions: (1) How do TIOT practices relate to student outcome variables among HBCU undergraduates? (2) How does that relationship differ for students with higher or lower levels of self-directed effort, if at all?
https://ies.ed.gov/ncer/projects/grant.asp?ProgID=2117&year=2023&grantid=5874
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We are now recruiting for Spring 2024!
Click this link for the Faculty Participation Overview
Interested faculty should complete this form: https://forms.gle/ae6RxD2H4y1HyHQ26.
See the full consent form here
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