Community Engagement

Researchers are also collaborators on projects focused on developing and studying STEM learning experiences in the greater community.

• STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes — Contact: Greses Pérez
• Community Tech Press: Sixth-grade youth expanding engineering through critical multilingual journalism
• Design Talks: Building Community with Elementary Engineering
• Biomimicry as an authentic anchor: Giving teachers the tools to adapt an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum — Contact: Kristen Wendell
• Robotics for All — Contact: Trevion Henderson
• Tufts University Behavioral Health Enhanced School-based Training (BHEST) initiative
  The School Psychology program has been awarded a four year training grant from the United States Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant (an award of $533,000) will fund the Tufts University Behavioral Health Enhanced School-based Training (BHEST) initiative. BHEST proposed a unique supervisory model for behavioral health training in schools that places school psychology interns in integrated behavioral health training positions in underserved communities in the Greater Boston area. Over the next four years, 30 BHEST interns will work in schools in Boston, Lawrence, Cambridge, and Lowell, and will participate in a collaborative training model with field-based school psychologists and school nurses, and with Tufts School Psychology faculty. The grant will be used to support the interns through stipends, and to provide professional development and support for behavioral health initiatives.
• Global Partnerships for Education — Contact: Linda Beardsley
  Since 2008, Distinguished Senior Lecturer Linda V. Beardsley has been working with the Maranyundo Initiative, a group of Boston area women in collaboration with the Benebikira Nuns of Rwanda to build and develop the Maranyundo School in Nyamata, Rwanda. Colleagues at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and in the Education Department worked with the teachers at the school on using video and technology to enhance their teaching - have also been involved in this ongoing work.
• SPARC — Contact: Scott Greenspan
  SPARC (School Psychology Awareness and Recruitment Committee) is a student committee in the school psychology program designed to raise awareness and educate our campus and community about school psychology as a viable career in education and schools. The committee is composed of current students, usually in the first and second year, who meet on a regular basis to plan activities and events for the academic year, such as the school psychology open house/student panel, School Psychology Awareness Week, and interview day. The committee also serves as the liaison between the program and Tufts Graduate Student Council. Student volunteers are also available to discuss career options in school psychology as well as talk about their experience in the Tufts School Psychology program.
• Students Write at Malden High School
  Sean Walsh, lead teacher of the English department, and several other faculty at Malden High School developed a space for students interested in writing called the Writer's Den. The Tufts Education Department supported setting up the space by sharing resources and creating an internship for a Tufts Senior to work closely with teachers and students to promote literacy activities and publish student work. Larry Evans, the first Writer's Den intern, describes the space as one in which "young writers are not judged at first by their grammar usage. All writers, including ELLs, need a place where they feel a sense of acceptance and the importance of self-expression."
• Urban Mathematics and Science Teacher Collaborative - (Noyce)