Grants
Wyandanch Early Childhood Curriculum Project : August 2010 – August 2012
- Rauch Foundation – $20, 000 to provided Tools of the Mind Curriculum to three
- Early childhood classrooms in Wyandanch Union Free School District.
Wyandanch Union Free School District : 2008 – 2014
Long Island University Partnership: Universal Pre-K Program
- Wrote grant and administered a five-year grant for University-Public School
- Partnership (First year $60, 800 allocated, second year $65,000 allocated, third year $65,000 fourth year $65,000 allocated, fifth year $65,000 allocated)
Faculty Research Grants
Bilingual Fairy Tales Supported with Play Props
- Faculty grant for project – Bilingual Fairy Tales Supported with Play Props.
- Provided familiar fairy tale literature in English and Spanish to forty dual language learners in the Wyandanch Union Free School District.
Dialogic Reading with Preschoolers
- Faculty grant for project – Dialogic Reading with Preschoolers.
- Provided 3 preschool teachers in Wyandanch Union Free School District with a research-based model for explicit teaching of vocabulary through shared picture book reading.
Comparison of Traditional and Technology Contexts
- Faculty grant for project – A Comparison of Traditional and Technology Based Numeracy-related Contexts.
- Provide an investigation comparing preschool use of the traditional board game, Chutes and Ladders with online version on I-Pads.