Three-year research award from the NewSchools Venture Fund’s EF+Math Program titled “Fractions in the School Yard: Play-based Executive Function and Math Learning” to design connections between the Fraction Ball intervention and classroom instruction with teachers and students from Santa Ana Unified School District.
Four-year Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Stimulating STEM in the City: Co-Designing with Latinx Families to Promote Informal STEM Learning” to co-design and evaluate a series of playful STEM learning installations in the city of Santa Ana, CA.
Two-year grant from the American Educational Research Association and the National Science Foundation for secondary data analysis using the Study of Early Child Care & Youth Development (SECCYD) data set, titled “Moderating effects of early child care and education quality on long-term STEM outcomes for children from low-income families.”