The Weekly Recap
News and Updates From Across BU Wheelock SPACE This Week
Welcome to this week’s recap! This week we share recent community events, highlight news mentions and published research, and share information about upcoming events.
Out and About
The SPACE Office hosted a thank-you event to celebrate more than 50 colleagues at BU Wheelock and the Boston Public Schools who helped successfully launch the historic Dr. Carol Johnson District Leadership Fellowship.
More than 60 students, alumni, and faculty from BU Wheelock’s Sport Psychology program gathered at the Annual Association for Applied Sport Psychology conference in Las Vegas, NV.
70 fifth and sixth graders from the William M. Trotter Elementary School, a Boston Public School, visited BU’s Charles River Campus on Oct. 25th. The tour was organized by BU Wheelock faculty TJ McKenna (Clinical Associate Professor) and Jennifer Bryson (Senior Lecturer), along with members of the BU Government & Community Affairs team. During their visit, the students:
Participated in hands-on STEM experiments at BU Wheelock
Toured the Center for Computing & Data Sciences (CDS)
Visited the College of Engineering’s Robotics & Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center (RASTIC)
Explored the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC)
In the News
Shaping An Institution: Boston University's New President, Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam Shares Her Vision For The School...And The World, Ebony Magazine, (interview with BU President Melissa L. Gilliam), October 29, 2024
Research That Matters
RPP in BPS: Racial Equity Report: Orienting Networked Improvement Communities for Equity (report co-authored by Professor Hardin Coleman and Lecturer Ariel Tichnor-Wagner)
This report delves into the Racial Equity Networked Improvement Community (NIC), an initiative launched by EdVestors in 2021. The NIC is a Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) between EdVestors, the Boston Public Schools' Office of Opportunity Gaps, and researchers from Boston University Wheelock (Coleman and Tichnor-Wagner). The NIC was established to build the capacity of Boston schools to understand, implement, and shape conditions that disrupt and dismantle racial inequities in school systems. This research brief explores how the partnership adapted the NIC model with a strong focus on equity to achieve this aim.
Upcoming Events
November 1st - Conversations with the Dean Webinar: High Standards, High Stakes. Join BU Wheelock Dean Penny Bishop on Nov. 1st from 1:00-1:45 pm for a timely discussion on the potential impact of the MCAS ballot initiative (Question 2) on standardized testing in Massachusetts schools. Dean Bishop will moderate a panel with BU Wheelock faculty experts, including Jennifer Bryson, Senior Lecturer and Faculty Director of Educator Preparation; Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Education Policy & Economics; and Pipier Smith-Mumford, Master Lecturer and Field Director for the Education Leadership EdD program. Register here.
November 1st - Critical Gentrification Studies in U.S. Cities Book Symposium. BU’s Initiative on Cities is hosting a book symposium featuring three new books by leaders in the field of gentrification: Tanya Golash-Boza’s Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, Richard Ocejo’s Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City, and Derek Hyra’s Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur. The event is Nov. 1st from 11:00am-3:00pm at Boston University’s Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Ave, First Floor. Register here.