Community Initiatives
Warner School faculty, staff, and students are deeply engaged in a wide range of initiatives that support and strengthen communities—locally, regionally, and nationally. Through partnerships, research, and service, they work to create meaningful, lasting impact beyond the classroom.
Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council (IHEAC)
The Warner School’s Center for Disability and Education has been at the forefront of improving access to quality, inclusive postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disability across the country.
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Northeast Noyce Professional Learning Network
The Warner School’s Center for Professional Development and Education Reform leads the Northeast Noyce Professional Learning Network, an innovative initiative designed to foster the growth and support of highly effective STEM educators.
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ROC Reading Partners
ROC Reading Partners, led by Warner School faculty, is a remote evening reading program that brings together adult volunteers with Rochester city school students in grades K-6 to engage the young readers in quality literacy instruction and activities from their homes.
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Step to College Program
Step to College, which launched in summer 2018 under the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ’s educational partnership with East High School, is an innovative pre-college program that aims to prepare Rochester students for admission to — and to persist in — two-year and four-year colleges.
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Nathaniel Rochester Community School Partnership in STEM Education
A partnership with School No. 3, which is in the process of transitioning into a STEM magnet school, providing coaching and professional learning to build capacity to provide students with high-quality STEM experiences.
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Constructive Clinical Supervision
Professional development designed to provide readers of the book Constructive Clinical Supervision by Douglas A. Guiffrida with an opportunity to earn continuing education credit for the learning they engaged in through reading the book.
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East High School Partnership Initiative
In partnership with the East High community, the Warner School of Education and Human Development has assumed a leadership role in an extensive school transformation effort designed to improve outcomes for students and build a healthy and effective learning community.
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Genesee Valley Writing Project
This collaborative school-university partnership seeks to improve the teaching and learning of writing in PK-16 schools across the Genesee Valley region through a teachers-teaching-teachers professional development model. Highlights include summer institutes for teachers and a writing camp for youth in grades 6-12.
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Project READ: A Literacy Program for At-Risk Students
A partnership with Rochester’s School 33 and East Upper & Lower Schools, with a focus on first graders, providing tutoring services, in-class support, professional development and family literacy activities.
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Get Real! Science
Get Real! Science is the Warner School of Education and Human Development's science teacher preparation program designed to engage students in real science through an inquiry-based approach. The program includes a comprehensive research program and community outreach initiatives: the Get Real! Environmental Action Camp and Science STARS.