CNY Community Foundation-Syracuse Academy of Science,
Culturally Responsive Literacy Research.
$7,900
9/2009-9/2012
Syracuse Sounds of Music Assoication, CNY Arts, Society of New Music.
Start up instrumental program at Cathedral Academy at Pompei.
$10,000
9/2009-9/2011
FIPSE-Trans-Atlantic Grant between 5 Nations in Europe and 6sections of the USA Atlantis Grant
$152,00-$76,000 Le Moyne college and equivalent of $76,000 for Kassel University, Germany.
ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and communication: National and International Adaptations for Teacher and Business Preparation.
12/2007
Two Kauffman Social Entrepreneurship Grants. Urban Mentorship Programs.
Total of $10,500
7/2007
Gear-Up Grant with SU for secondary urban teacher Workkeys and
culturally responsive teaching inservice.
$5,000
7/2006
Gear-Up Grant with SU for secondary urban teachers,
Workkeys and culturally responsive teaching inservice.
$5,000
5/2006
Le Moyne Strategic Initiative to inservice teachers for culturally responsive teaching
at Cathedral Academy at Pompey.
$11,000
12/2005
3 Le Moyne Strategic Initiative Grants.
4 Le Moyne Education Programs for Masters Degrees in Childhood Literacy,
Adolescent Literacy, TESOL, and Urban Education;
Recognizing Culturally Responsive Urban Teachers;
Le Moyne College Spring Social Justice Conference.
Total of $12,000
6/2003-6/2005
IRA Elva Knight Grant-Home/School/Community Connections For Literacy Development.
Preparing and collecting data with third grade teachers in two urban school.
$10,000
6/2003-6/2005
Preparing Teachers to Engage With Families.
New York State Systemic Change Grant.
Facilitator for the creation of a document on how to engage families in their children's learning
with professors from Syracuse University, Oswego, and St. John's University.
$10,000
1/2004-6/2004
New York State New York State Co-Teaching Systemic Change Grant.
Follow-up on previous grant.
Teacher inservice research project with 5 Elmwood teachers, librarian, community liaison
and 2 Le Moyne pre-service teachers linking home/school/community connections
to culturally relevant literacy lessons-teachers.
Presented at the International Reading Association.
$5,000
9/2002-6/2003
New York State Co-Teaching Systemic Change Grant.
Teacher inservice research project with 4 Elmwood teachers
and 4 Le Moyne Preservice teachers linking home/school/community connections
to culturally relevant literacy lessons.
Working with Andrea Izzo, Assistant Professor in the Education Department.
$5,000
9/2002-6/2003
Community Foundation Grant for Fowler and Le Moyne Students
to work on science and technology projects.
$3,000
9/2002-6/2003
Independent College Verizon Grant
Grant to teach EDU 335 Reading in the Content Areas to Fowler Teachers and Le Moyne Preservice Teachers at Fowler High School (urban high poverty setting),
in which Preservice Teachers mentor college-bound 9th Grade Fowler Students.
$10,000
2001
Le Moyne College Faculty Research Grant
State University of California at Long Beach
Grant to work on chapter of book with colleague
and begin outlining a potential literacy grant.
$500
1999
Le Moyne College Faculty Development Grant
to attend Developmental Studies Institute,
May 17-21, in Jackson, Mississippi, in order to gain
information and research necessary for co-editing the book,
Exploring Values: Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events.
$500
1999
Developmental Studies Institute Grant for attendance at workshop
to evaluate classroom materials related to values education,
May 17-21, Jackson, Mississippi.
$500
1999
Syracuse University and Lafayette Central School Literacy Grant
Aided in the design for implementation with Syracuse University and Oswego professors.
I also presented workshops, and shared lessons in Onondaga Nation School classrooms.
$15,000
1995-2000
National Science Foundation,
Eisenhower Grant for Teachers' Professional Development.
Syracuse University, Le Moyne College and Syracuse City School District.
Four summers of workshops and fall and spring follow-up meetings.
$175,000
1996
Le Moyne College Faculty Development Grant to attend
International Reading Association in order to research workshops on the language arts
in preparation for writing a graduate course.
$1,400
1996
New York State Science and Math Inquiry Learning in Early Childhood.
Research grant from the New York State Education Department
to study inquiry learning in three second grades at Meachem Elementary School,
Syracuse City School District.
$5,000
1995-1999
New York State Systemic Initiative for Math and Science.
Le Moyne College and Syracuse University representative
to the Higher Education Inquiry Study Group (4 meetings annually in Albany, NY).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University, New York University,
University of Rochester, SUNY Cortland, SUNY Geneseo,
SUNY Albany, College of St. Rose, and Skidmore.
$3,000
1995-1999
New York State Systemic Initiative for Math and Science.
Le Moyne College Teacher/Coach/Consultant in the Syracuse City School District.
$4,000
1996
Le Moyne College Faculty Development Grant.
Prepare literacy syllabi for the Master of Science in Teaching Degree.
$1,200
1993
Le Moyne College Faculty Research and Development Grant to visit schools and present
my research to educators as part of the North American Reading Delegation
to Budapest, St. Petersburg and Moscow. October 6-20.