Consistent with its overall mission, CDI supports a variety of academic collaborations and initiatives supporting inclusive education and policy change for students with disabilities.
Baldanza Fellows Program
The Baldanza Fellows Program is dedicated to recruiting, developing, and retaining applicants committed to serving underserved and underrepresented students to become exceptional and motivated teachers in area K-12 schools. The fellowship provides scholarships, stipends, and an employment pipeline to students in the Syracuse University School of Education’s teaching master’s degrees.
Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR)
CEEDAR assists states to reform teacher/leader preparation programs, to align licensure standards with reformed and refined personnel evaluation, and to realign policy structures and learning systems statewide.
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
Excelsior is a peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal provided by the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Equity Audits to Identify Opportunity Gaps
CDI develops and participates in research on curricular and co-curricular opportunity gaps and impact on student populations within the Syracuse City School District. This includes an audit of students, enriched/advanced courses, grades, attendance, and discipline; descriptive statistics and correlational analyses; and planning for education reforms.
Academic Collaborations:
Neurodiversity Community
A pilot project supporting degree-seeking students with autism at Syracuse University, supported by Karen Colapietro Seybold G’92.
Intelligence ++
An inclusive design course and competition, supported by the Zaccai Foundation for Augmented Intelligence.