Saturday, February 4, 2012

New Culture of Care project

I have begun a new Culture of Care research and professional development project at a large high school in the metropolitan Denver (Colorado) area. Colorado State University provided $25,000 in funding for this project. I am grateful to CSU for providing these funds.
Working with me on the project is Dr Patricia Vigil and Star Garcia, a graduate student. Both are from CSU.
So far we have held focus group interviews with Latino/Hispanic students, their parents, and their teachers, and individual interviews with the Principal and Assistant Principal. Also we held an introduction to the Culture of Care staff meeting with the entire school faculty. Now we will be engaged in ongoing professional development and research activities with 15 teachers who volunteered to be part of this initial study.