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Educator Development & Research Center
275 Peik Hall
159 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA Phone: 612-625-5060
Fax: 612-626-6765

The Holmes Partnership

The Holmes Partnership is a network of universities, schools, community agencies and national professional organizations working in partnership to create high quality professional development and significant school renewal to improve teaching and learning for all children.

Download Holmes Scholar application, deadline is May 15, 2010.

Download Holmes Scholar brochure [PDF].

The Educator Development & Research Center is proud to have four Holmes Scholars, Julio Cabrera, Lauren Causey, Charles Helm, and Brian Lozenski participating in our work as well as the work of the Holmes Partnership. Please check back soon for more information about our Holmes Scholars, including their areas of research and work within the field of Education.

Julio Cesar Cabrera, "Julio Cabrera is a doctoral student in the measurement track of the Quantitative Methods in Education program. His research interests include classroom assessment, differential item functioning, equating, linking, longitudinal data analysis, scale design, survey data analysis, and survey design. His substantive research interests include unconscious processes, group/ethnic differences, immigrant education/assimilation, and CAT procedures in minority populations. Julio received his master’s in 2007 with a concentration in general psychology. During his master’s program, Julio realized the dearth of Latino students seeking advanced degrees and began questioning the reasons as to why this was happening. As a result, he’s been a member of the Minnesota Network of Latinos in Higher Education (MNLHE) for two years, serving for one year as the graduate student representative. Julio has also been involved in a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project regarding the prevention of partner violence in immigrant communities and is developing a community capacity scale to gauge the amount of community capacity that Latinos in the east side of Saint Paul hold. Julio has also had the opportunity to intern at both major testing companies, Pearson PLC and ETS, where he has had the chance to gain practical experience, putting his book-based knowledge into practice. In his free time, he thoroughly enjoys salsa dancing and has been part of several salsa performing teams."

 

Lauren Causey, As a Ph.D. student in the Literacy Education program, I enjoy learning from faculty and colleagues about ways I can be impactful in improving literacy outcomes for young students. Upon completion of my degree, I intend to remain in academia, training up future teachers to use diverse children's and young adult literature in their K-12 classrooms, and adding to the research base about the role of culture in literature and literacy response. In addition to those research objectives, I am also interested in how nonformal education settings contribute to the academic growth of youth.

 

Charles Helm, expected graduation 2013. Charles received his B.S. from UMN and his M.A. from the University of Maryland. He is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology, Counseling Psychology Program as well as a masters degree seeking student in Educational Policy Administration. Currently, he is an instructor in the University Counseling and Consulting Services department in addition to teaching and undergraduate advising in the Human Resources Development program. Charles has received several honors and awards from UMN and the University of Maryland. He is active in professional and community organizations.

 

Brian Lozenski, "Brian Lozenski is a public school educator and an advocate for education as a platform for social justice. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Culture and Teaching in the College of Education and Human Development. His research interests include the development and expansion of critical pedagogy in schools and community-based organizations. Specifically, he is focused on critical mathematics and culturally relevant pedagogy as tools for social transformation among youth.