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STEM Center Director and Associate Professor Victor Sampson was awarded $349,815 by the National Science Foundation’s Research in the Formation of Engineers program to develop an instructional framework that integrates engineering practices along with scientific argumentation for middle school students. The project, titled The Development of a New Instructional Approach…

STEM Center Director and Associate Professor Victor Sampson is currently the principal investigator on the research project Integration of Environmental Chemistry and Computing to Advance Evidence-based Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Computational Thinking in Middle School Students, which received a $640,163 grant from the National Science Foundation. This project explores the…

North Cooc has received a $119,000 grant from the Foundation for Child Development’s Young Scholars Program. The two-year project will examine the training and qualifications of early childhood special education teachers (pre-k) and the transition practices used to help young children with disabilities adjust to kindergarten…

  Brenda RubioEducational Policy & Planning, Educational Administration  Proposal Title: Academia Cuauhtli: A Study of Bilingual Teacher Identity Development in a Culturally Relevant Schooling Space  Faculty Advisor: Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. Having served as a research assistant and program coordinator for local grassroots organization Academia Cuauhtli Saturday Academy,…