PK-12 Outreach

The Graduate School of Education (GSE) outreach to PK-12 schools is extensive and diverse. Additionally, two centers within the GSE (the Office of School Partnerships and the Tsongas Industrial History Center) provide specialized resources and services to schools in the region. GSE faculty work with schools as program consultants and evaluators, intern and practicum supervisors, and policy advisors.

Among the projects in which GSE faculty are currently engaged are

• Dr. Regina Panasuk’s project Enhancing Math Collaboration (EMC3), which supports the mathematics content and pedagogical knowledge of teachers at the Bartlett School in Lowell.
  
  
• Dr. James Nehring works with teachers and principals in Methuen, Billerica and Woburn in their development of Professional Learning Communities, while Dr. Jill Lohmeier serves as program evaluator to the project in Methuen, examining “Levels of Collaboration.”.
  
  
• Dr. Patricia Fontaine is engaged in several Teaching American History grants in which she provides content and pedagogically focused courses for teachers in such districts as Billerica, North Andover, Reading, Lawrence.
  
  
• Dr. Michelle Scribner-MacLean with Dr. Fred Martin of the Computer Science Department work with Lowell middle school students to engage them in science and engineering through the use of a variety of sensors with which they can gather and share information.
  
  
• Dr. MinJeong Kim is engaged in studying language and literacy learning in early childhood classrooms at the Bartlett School in Lowell.

• Dr. Charles Christensen is consulting through the National Institute for School Leaders, developing the leadership skills of current principals and others in administrative positions.