Community engagement
Examining the process of working collaboratively with communities outside the University to advance education.
Lesa Clarkson Lesa Clarkson
- Professor
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- 612-626-9243
- covin005@umn.edu
The foundation of my research agenda is mathematics in urban classrooms. This interest evolved from my initial study which examined a middle school reform mathematics curriculum to determine if mathematics achievement, as determined by the state…
Jeff Henning-Smith Jeff Henning-Smith
- Senior Lecturer
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- henni143@umn.edu
Jeff Henning-Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Elementary Education and Social Studies program areas.
Mary Hermes Mary Hermes
- Professor
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- 612-624-3082
- mhermes@umn.edu
Mary Hermes' research focuses on language revitalization and how it can connect people to the land and the planet. She explores different ways of knowing and being through feminist and indigenous lenses.
Bic Ngo Bic Ngo
- Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Rodney S. Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
- 612-625-7520
- bcngo@umn.edu
My research and teaching interests focus on culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education in general, and immigrant education in particular.
Abigail Rombalski Abigail Rombalski
- Lecturer
- she, her, hers
- romba005@umn.edu
Abby Rombalski works to cultivate university-community partnerships and opportunities for public scholarship that work towards racial justice in education with youth at the center.
Cassie Scharber Cassie Scharber
- Associate Professor of Learning Technologies, Director of the L+T Collaborative, Bonnie Westby Huebner Chair in Education and Technology
- she, her, hers
- 612-625-6607
- scharber@umn.edu
I am troubled by the narrow conceptions and practices of literacy and learning that proliferate in schools and current educational inequalities that are rooted in the gendered, racist, and classist histories of U.S. schooling.
Susan Staats Susan Staats
- Professor
- she, her, hers
- 612-625-7820
- staats@umn.edu
As a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching responsibilities in mathematics, my academic pathway is varied and unusual.
