Consistent with its overall mission, the CDI supports a variety of academic collaborations and initiatives supporting inclusive education and policy change for students with disabilities and those of other marginalized groups.
Baldanza Fellows Program for Diverse Teachers
The Baldanza Fellows Program is dedicated to recruiting, developing, and retaining diverse and underrepresented applicants to become exceptional and motivated teachers in Syracuse 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 reform and refine personnel evaluation, 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
The CDI develops and participates in research on curricular and co-curricular opportunity gaps and impact on underserved 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.
USAID: All Children Succeeding
The Center on Disability and Inclusion has joined a consortium led by not-for-profit development group Creative focused on developing inclusive and equitable early grade education in Uzbekistan to assist Creative’s implementation of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded, $25 million, five-year All Children Succeeding initiative, which supports Uzbekistan’s mandate to improve teacher and paraprofessional inclusive education training. The consortium will help to revise education materials, update the national curriculum and enhance educational access for all students, including those with disabilities.
Academic Collaborations:
Neurodiversity Community
A pilot project supporting degree-seeking students with autism at Syracuse University, supported by Karen Seybold.
Intelligence ++
Inclusive design course and competition with support from the Zaccai Foundation for Augmented Intelligence