School of Education Projects

Project EMBRACE
Project Embrace (Educating & Mentoring By Reaching All Cultures Educationally) A Personnel Preparation Grant which targets and prepares African American, Hispanic, and Filipino educators, especially males, to obtain a Masters of Art Degree in Pre-Elementary Education with a Specialization in Early Childhood Special Education.

Grow Your Teacher Project
An opportunity for high school students interested in becoming teachers to get a first-hand look at the profession and enjoy specially tailored activities for participants.

The Student Success Triad: Research
Assessment and Curriculum Developmentstyle="font-style: normal"> - A Title III funded project designed to develop a model which can be replicated among other teacher education programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities that will assist teacher education candidates in passing the PRAXIS examination.

Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPUS)
Expansion of campus based child care services.  Provides 3-5 year old children with a quality child care program; provides evening child care for students in night classes; provides student parents with a system support.

Assessing the Effectiveness of a Phonics-Based Reading Intervention Program used with African-American Children
The project examines the relationship between literacy acquisition and childhood language performance.

Project GEAR-UPP
Identifies academic preparation and performance, personal development, career awareness, and social development as primary

Reading First Teacher Education Network (RFTEN)
Reading First Teacher Education Network (s a U.S. Department of Education grant project designed to help teacher educators and future teachers at Norfolk State University, teach scientific based reading model by partnering with Campostella Elementary School.

This collaboration will enable the School of Education to implement this model so that our candidates can have a direct impact on the reading skills of students in order to empower these students to be life long readers.

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