Active Projects
California Commission for Teacher Credentialing Residency Grant: Anaheim Teaching Partnership in STEM and Bilingual Education
PI: Hosun Kang
Project Lead: Doron Zinger, Virginia Panish
Funding: California Department of Education | 2023-2026
Equity-Centered Design of Conversational Agents for Inclusive Science Communication Education in High Schools
PI: Rossella Santagata
Co-PIs: Ha Nguyen (Utah State) and Sara Ludovise (Orange County Department of Education)
Funding: NSF ITEST | 2023-2026
Fostering Systems Thinking in High School Environmental Engineering through Engagement of Coastal Communities
PI: Rossella Santagata
Co-PIs: Hosun Kang (UCI), Jennifer Long (UCI), Sara Ludovise (Orange County Department of Education)
Funding: NSF DRK12 | 2023-2026
Transfer to Teaching: Accelerated STEM Teacher Preparation from Community College to Credentialing
PI: Jessica Pratt
Co-PI: Rossella Santagata
Project Lead: Doron Zinger
Funding: National Science Foundation, Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program | 2020-2025
Interrogating Recruitment Practices of Black Candidates into Teacher Preparation
PI: Brandy Gatlin-Nash
Co-PI: Elizabeth van Es
Project team: Acacia Warren, Rossella Santagata, Becky G. Sumbera, Carlos Sandoval
Funding: Spencer Foundation | 2021-2023
Noticing in Mathematics for Student Success (NIMS²): A Video-Annotation Curriculum to Enhance Instructors’ Understanding of Student Thinking in Proof-Transition Courses
PI: Rossella Santagata
Alessandra Pantano, Roberto Pelayo
Funding: National Science Foundation | 2021-2024
Reducing Inequalities in Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development
PI: Rossella Santagata
Co-Pi: Adriana Villavicencio
Funding: William T. Grant Foundation | 2022-2025
UCI Teacher Preparation Expansion and Enhancement for Developing Effective and Equity-focused Educators
PI: Hosun Kang
Project Lead: Doron Zinger
Funding:US Department of Education | 2018-2023
Reducing Inequalities for Immigrant, Multilingual Students in Secondary Schools
PI: Adriana Villavicencio
Hua-Yu, Sebastian Cherng
Funding: William T. Grant Foundation | 2022
Collaborative Grant: Community and Teacher Teams Investigate Equitable Noticing and Dispositions
PI: E. A. Van Es.
Co-PI: V. Hand.
Funding: National Science Foundation.
Post-doc: Alison Munzer
Graduate Student Researchers: Ethan Rubin and Jose Mendez
CAREER: Expanding Latinxs’ Opportunities to Develop Complex Thinking in Secondary Science Classrooms through a Research-Practice Partnership
PI: Hosun Kang.
Funding: National Science Foundation | 2019-2024
UCI Teacher Preparation Expansion and Enhancement for Developing Effective and Equity Focused Educators
Director: E. A. van Es.
Co-Project Director: V. Panish and D. Zinger.
Funding: US Department of Education, Title V Higher Education Act, 2018-2023.
Building Community Grant: Confronting Extremism through Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
PI: Adriana Villavicencio
Members: Doron Zinger, Socorro Cambero
Funding:UC Office of Inclusive Excellence | 2021 – 2022
Disrupting Racism in Schools: A Mixed Methods Study of Educators’ Racial Dispositions and Organizational Change
PI: Adriana Villavicencio, Shanyce Campbell
Funding: Spencer Foundation | 2022 – 2024
UCI California Teacher Education Research & Improvement Network (CTERIN)
Co-PIs: Tine Sloan (UCSB), George Johnson (UCB), Rebecca Ambrose (UCD), Elizabeth van Es (UCI), Jody Priselac (UCLA), Maya Tokman (UCM), Thomas Smith (UCR), Alan Daly (UCSD), Lora Bartlett (UCSC).
Post-doc: Alison Munzer
Graduate Student Researchers: Stephen Skoropad, Dana Conlin
Exploring How High Schools Can More Effectively Serve Immigrant Youth
PI: Adriana Villavicencio
Funding: WT Grant Foundation.
Evaluating the Outcomes of the Center for Racial Justice in Education
PI: Adriana Villavicencio
Funding: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Completed Projects
Recruiting and supporting future Latinx teachers
PI: Hosun Kang, Virginia Panish, Susan Toma-Berge, Acacia Warren
Funding: UCI Education Research Initiative | 2019-2020
Modest Supports for Sustaining Professional Development Outcomes over the Long Term
Co-PIs: Judith Haymore Sandholtz and Cathy Ringstaff (West Ed).
Funding: National Science Foundation | 2016-2021
Project CRYSTAL: Cultivating and Researching Youth Systems Thinking through Authentic Learning
PI: Rossella Santagata.
Co-PIs: Hosun Kang, Jennifer Long (UCI CEB), Sarah Kimball (UC CEB), and Sara Ludovise (CCA).
Graduate Student Research Assistant: Chris Stillwell.
Funding: Nicholas Endowment.
Reimagining Educational Equity and Opportunity (REEO) during the COVID 19 Pandemic
PI: June Ahn, Rossella Santagata, Adriana Villavicencio.
Funding: UCI Office of Inclusion Excellence | 2020-2021
Learning to Learn from Mathematics Teaching
PI: Rossella Santagata.
Graduate Student Research Assistant: Jiwon Lee
Funding: National Science Foundation.
Promoting complex thinking for under-represented youths in science classrooms by improving a local STEM Instruction System
PI: Hosun Kang.
Investigator: Rae-Young Kim.
Graduate Student Research Assistant: Kristel Dupaya.
Funding: Hellman Fellows Fund.
School-Wide Improvement in Mathematics (SWIM): A Research-Practice Partnership
PI: Rossella Santagata
Funding: UCI OCEAN Initiative.
Expanding Opportunities to Learn in Diverse K-12 Science Classrooms with Well-Prepared Beginning Teachers
PI: Hosun Kang.
Project CRYSTAL: Scaling up and Building Sustainability to Bring Authentic Science Learning Experiences to Underserved Learners
PI: Rossella Santagata.
Co-PIs: Hosun Kang, Jennifer Long (UCI CEB), Sarah Kimball (UC CEB), and Sara Ludovise (CCA).
Graduate Student Research Assistant: Jiwon Lee.
Funding: Nicholas Endowment.