Grants / AWARDS 

Grants/Contracts:
External:
  • ​Empowering Teacher Leaders, funded by New Jersey Department of Education ($165,000, 5/1/2024-3/31/2025)
    Role: Co-PI​
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  • Inclusive Arts Integration (IAI), funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation ($580,000, Fall, 2017-Summer, 2023)​​
    Role: Project Director
    Website: http://inclusiveartsintegration.weebly.com/
    Professional Development:
    - "F    ostering Culturally Responsive Teaching and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) via Arts Integration,"  $75,000 (September, 2022 - August, 2023)
    - "Fostering Global Perspectives and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) via Arts Integration,"  $100,000 (September, 2021 - August, 2022)
    - "Embracing Diversity Through Arts Integration,"  $100,000 (September, 2020 - August, 2021)
    - "Culturally Responsive Classrooms Through Arts Integration," $105,000 (September, 2019 - August, 2020)
    - "Supporting Development of Creative Thinking Through Arts Integrated Activities in High-Needs Urban Schools.,"  $100,000
    (September, 2018 - August, 2019)
    - "Implementing an Exemplary Arts Integration Model: Providing Professional Development for Teacher Candidates, Teachers, and Present and Future Educational Leaders," $100,000 (September, 2017 - August, 2018)
    ​​Learning Arts at Home:
    - Website: https://www.learningartsathome.com/
    - This is a multilingual culturally responsive video-based read aloud and art making program for high-needs schools in New Jersey.

  • Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program Grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Education 
    The US-NJ-South Korea Project at William Paterson University:  Exploring Korea’s History, Culture, and Education System through Experiential Learning",  $85,000 (October, 2013- March, 2015).
    Role: Project Director
    - Website: http://www.wpunj.edu/coe/2014fulbright-hays/
    - Deliverable (Dynamic & Globalizing Korea: A Primer for Teaching in U.S. Schools): http://teachingaboutkorea.com/
    - Travel Blog: http://fulbright-hays-southkorea.blogspot.com/
​Internal:
  • The Professional Development and Learning Landscape for Urban and Rural Teachers and Administrators: Factors to Consider for the Post Pandemic Era, ($4,000), Faculty Research and Grant Incentive Program, William Paterson University (2022-2023)
  • Technology Integration Mini-Grant, William Paterson University ($1,000) (Spring, 2006)
​Awards: