The Home-School Connections Team, under the leadership of Dr. Adina Schick, follows a partnership-based model to address the socio-cultural context of children's early development and learning at home and school, with a close focus on children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds. Our work spans two main areas: understanding the discourse and linguistic features of child-caregiver interactions, as well as exploring ways in which schools and childcare centers incorporate culturally grounded family practices to support children's learning and development. We take a strength-based approach to understanding the ways minoritized families support their children's development and strongly believe that building solid home-school connections requires adopting a bidirectional approach, including bringing salient home and community practices into the classroom setting.

Currently, we are seeking up to 2 part-time (i.e., 20-27 hours/week) Senior Project Liaisons for th...