Congratulations to Drs. Michael Scheel and Gina Kunz on their recent award from the Woods Charitable Fund to support the “Building Bridges through Relationships” high school dropout prevention program. The prevention program offers at-risk students a fresh start in high school with support to reverse trends that would eventually lead to dropping out of high school.
Kevin Kupzyk, statistics and research methodologist with the CYFS Statistics & Research Methodology Unit, was awarded the Stuart C. Tentoni Outstanding Professional Development Program Award from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). Kevin’s session, titled ‘Introduction to a Priori Power Analysis for the Grant Writing Process,’ was presented at the 2009 APA annual meeting in Toronto, Canada.
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools announces The National Center for Research on Rural Education (R2Ed).
This nearly $10,000,000, 5-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is under the direction of Drs. Susan M. Sheridan (PI and center director), Todd Glover, Gwen Nugent, Gina Kunz, and Jim Bovaird.
Teachers play a pivotal role in building relationships between families and schools. Amanda Moen, doctoral student in school psychology, has developed a measure that assesses how preschool teachers rate their effectiveness at building these relationships.