College of Education FY24 Research Fellowship & External Grant Development URG Recipients*

*In an effort to fund more projects, some FY24 URGs were funded partially or in full by the COE Dean's Office.

Sara Jones & Andrea Jamison, TCH, How Culturally Responsive Can Teachers Actually Be While Using A Scripted Curriculum?: A Critical Content Analysis of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Curriculum
Jeongae Kang & Antonio Causarano, SED, Assessment Practices for English Language Learners (ELLs) in the state of Illinois
Sonia Kline & Grace Kang, TCH, Investigating the Transformative Potential of Humanizing Writing Pedagogy in Teacher Education and Beyond Through Multi-State Collaborative Research
Allison Kroesch, SED & Beth MacDonald, TCH, Longitudinal Problem-Solving Approaches in Early Childhood
Lydia Kyei-Blankson & Kathleen O'Brien, EAF, A Critical Reconceptualization of Educational Leadership
Do-Yong Park, TCH & Cory Culbertson, U-High, High School Students' Self-Efficacy and Emotional Response to Makerspaces Using the Engineering Design Process
Elizabeth White & Amanda Quesenberry, TCH, Student Perspectives of an Alternative Bachelor's Degree Completion Program
Annie Yang-Heim, TCH, Championing the Reevaluation and Decentralization of Prescriptive Pedagogical Paradigms in Literacy Instruction: Honoring teachers' voices on the Implementation of the Science of Reading Mandate