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Building Blocks & TRIAD Project
Government agencies have recently emphasized the importance of evidence-based instructional materials. The Building Blocks project is a completely research-based curriculum for early mathematics, from its conceptualization to its development to its formative and summative evaluation. The Building Blocks program incorporates both old and new technologies, from blocks and puzzles to multimedia computer programs. Evaluations show the program's approach of finding the mathematics in, and developing mathematics from, children's every day activity, allows children to learn and do more mathematics than previously assumed. Also well known is the "deep, systemic incapacity of U.S. schools, and the practitioners who work in them, to develop, incorporate, and extend new ideas about teaching and learning in anything but a small fraction of schools and classrooms" (Elmore). We are scaling up our TRIAD model of implementing the Building Blocks with an emphasis on teaching for understanding following learning trajectories. TRIAD stands for the three components of the model: Technology-enhanced, Research-based, Instruction, Assessment, and professional Development.
Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction (CLaRI)
The Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction has been serving children and teachers in Western New York since 1963. Through research, instruction, and professional development, our goal is to create success for children who are struggling to read or write. We support children, their parents, and their teachers through evaluation, instruction, and planning for reading and writing using traditional print-based literacies and newer digital literacies. Our research focuses on issues of cultural diversity and equity, multiliteracies and multimodality, and teacher education and professional development. Numerous projects and initiatives are carried out through the Center for Reading and Literacy Instruction at the UB campus. We also have several off-campus sites in collaboration with local schools where we conduct research and professional development.
Center on Rehabilitation Synergy (CRS)
The Center on Rehabilitation Synergy (CRS) is designed to address the broad range of Organizational (OD) and Human Resource Development (HRD) needs shared by rehabilitation organizations, agencies, individual programs and other entities throughout the country. Begun in October 2004, CRS is the umbrella organization for a variety of OD, HRD initiatives, projects, and activities. CRS is designed to offer a broad range of services that focus on improving the skills of rehabilitation personnel, advocates and consumers; and increasing the capacity to provide effective rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities. In close partnership with national, state, and local entities, CRS promotes the expansion of meaningful employment outcomes, consumer choice and control, and increased independence for individuals with significant disabilities.
City Voices, City Visions (CVCV)
The City Voices, City Visions project, a partnership between the University at Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Schools, provides teachers in Grades 6-12 with innovative approaches to integrating digital video arts and communication technologies into the curriculum to better enable students to achieve challenging academic standards.
Comparative and Global Studies in Education (CCGSE)
The Graduate School of Education has several programs, centers, institutes, and scholarly initiatives for students and visiting scholars wishing to study education in its international, comparative, and global contexts. The most internationally and comparatively focused are the General Masters and the Ph.D. in the Social Foundations of Education with concentrations in Comparative and Global Studies in Education.
The Fisher Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center (ECRC)
The ECRC (Early Childhood Research Center) Preschool is administered by the Department of Learning and Instruction of the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education. It is one of the few preschool programs in the country to be accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Education Outreach (Breakfast) Series – Professional Development
The Graduate School of Education's Education Outreach (Breakfast) Series features regional and national speakers presenting on a variety of topics related to education.
The English Language Institute (ELI)
The English Language Institute, founded in 1971 and a unit of the Graduate School of Education of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (UB), offers English language instruction, cultural orientation, and preacademic training to international students, scholars, and professionals on an intensive as well as on a per-course basis.
Gifted Math Program
The mission of the program is to challenge able students in the same way that standard school curricula challenge average and above average students. The emphasis is not on the development of professional mathematicians, but rather on providing strong mathematical background for students who may pursue future university work in mathematics, other sciences, or the humanities.
International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project
The International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project is a Ford Foundation-financed program of research, information dissemination and networking now in its second three-year phase. The project is looking at the worldwide shift in the burden of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students.
Learning Productivity Network
The Learning Productivity Network, supported by foundation grants, began in the summer of 1995 at the University at Buffalo under the direction of D. Bruce Johnstone, former SUNY chancellor and University Professor of Higher and Comparative Education. The Network includes individuals involved in programs, research, or advocacy related to the concept of learning productivity.
Methods of Inquiry
The Methods of Inquiry course is all about thinking. Blending insights from cognitive psychology and philosophy, the course offers students concrete ways to approach their studies by helping them become actively involved in their own learning process.
MusicPlay for infants and toddlers
Musical sounds surround a child, even before the moment of birth. Whether a child is listening to music, singing a song, or moving creatively to the sounds around them, music is a vital part of a child’s life. Young children often create music as a part of their play experiences, thus sustaining imagination and creativity. Furthermore, music enables children to express feelings and release energies and emotions in new and novel ways.
New Literacies Group
The mission of the New Literacies Group (NLG) at the University at Buffalo is the advancement of knowledge about and innovative uses of multimodal literacies in the context of an increasingly diverse society.
Region II Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (RRCEP II)
The Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program in Region 2 (RRCEP II) has been in existence since 1972 and is funded through the Rehabilitation Services Administration. RRCEP II provides developmental, education, and training activities for rehabilitation professionals and organizations.
Satsanga Yoga and Wellness
The Satsanga Center for Wellness and Positive Psychology is dedicated to the research of Dr. Catherine Cook-Cottone and her colleagues and students as well as to the many girls, boys, men, and women who struggle with eating, the experience of their body, and, for some, eating disorder. The website is here to share with others some of the work and to encourage all to continue to work toward wellness, connectedness, and the authentic experience of self.
