Research & Engagement
Explore in greater depth the education topics you connect with the most. Learn hands-on — collaborating with peers, mentors and area youth on time-relevant topics that encourage curiosity and dialogue. Our funded grants and projects and dedicated centers for research and advocacy create a well-rounded education experience.
You can help create inclusive learning environments for immigrant students. Develop innovative curriculum for elementary algebraic thinking. Train with peers to gain educational leadership insight or work to improve suicide prevention efforts on college campuses. Our wide range of grants, centers and projects allow you to multiply your knowledge in ways practical to your professional career and personal growth. Choose your opportunity.
Centers
The Herb Innovation Center (THInC)
THInC offers research opportunities, mentoring, and support for undergraduate and
graduate students, assists faculty with funded and non-funded projects, and establishes
partnerships with other on-campus units and beyond.
The Carver Center
The Carver Center is the central hub for educational technology and resources, focusing
on widespread technology adoption and providing comprehensive training and support
to the college community.
Center for Education in Mass Violence and Suicide
The University of Toledo Center for Education in Mass Violence and Suicide offers
resources, courses, and training to K-12 districts, higher education institutions,
and workplaces, providing holistic, research-based solutions and ensuring compliance
with House Bill 28 for addressing suicide on college campuses.
Center for Nonviolence and Democratic Education
The purpose of the Center for Nonviolence & Democratic Education (CNDE) is to understand
and educate, locally and globally, for a nonviolent, democratic, peaceful, ecologically
sustainable, and just society.
The Russel Center
The purpose of the John H. Russel Center for Educational Leadership is to promote
understanding of the role and practice of leadership in education and the development
of educational leaders in PreK-16 schools, institutions, and associations. The center
provides a resource to help students, faculty members, administrators, and professionals
communicate with each other, improve skills in specific areas, develop innovative
solutions to problems, provide a forum to share ideas, and conduct research on educational
issues.
Grants
Career: Teaching Practices That Support Fraction-Based Algorithmic Thinking
The objective of this project is to develop a prototypical model of core teaching
practices that engage and support students in algorithmic thinking when studying fraction
operations.
Great Start for Higher Education (GSHE)
The purpose of Great Start for Higher Education (GSHE) is to enhance the quality of
the early childhood curriculum offered at 4 community colleges in Michigan (Grand
Rapids Community College, Mott Community College, Monroe County Community College
and a 4th to be determined) so that associate degree early childhood teachers are
better prepared to meet the needs of young children with diverse needs and their families.
Accordingly, GSHE will work with faculty and community partners from these IHEs to
embed evidence and competency-based content into early childhood courses and increase
the number and quality of inclusive early childhood practicum settings.
High-Dosage Math and Literacy Tutoring Programs
Starting summer 2022 there are more opportunities for UToledo students to gain valuable
skills and contribute to the local community through mathematics and literacy tutoring!
Over the next two years, with funding from the Ohio Department of Education Statewide
Mathematics and Literacy Tutoring Grant, UToledo students can become paid tutors at
Old Orchard Elementary School and EscuelaSMART Academy (in collaboration with TutorSmart).
By the program’s conclusion, public school learners will have received 17,756 total
tutoring hours from trained University of Toledo students. Taking advantage of each
school community’s assets and funds of knowledge, Fostering Literate Youth (FLY) at
Old Orchard and Tutoria de Matematicas (TM) at EscuelaSMART Academy have been designed
with teachers and administrators to address specific needs each school has identified
and that have only been exacerbated by the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
NURTURES
NURTURES is a partnership between Toledo Public Schools, day care centers/nursery
schools, The University of Toledo (education, engineering, & science departments),
and community resources (e.g., Imagination Station, Zoo, Toledo Botanical Gardens)
that will work with teachers and families to create a complementary, integrated system
of science education for grades PK-3 in the Toledo area.
NURTURES is supported by National Science Foundation grant #1102808
Project: Creating Adaptive Culturally Diverse Learning Environments
This study seeks to understand the problems encountered by immigrant minority middle
school students and to discern what schools and teachers can do to mitigate students'
feelings of exclusion and create an environment in which all students can grow—intellectually,
interpersonally, and socially.
There is an urgent need to increase access to and improve the quality of inclusive childcare for young children with disabilities in Ohio. Through a state-wide and local/regional systems change approach, Project Open House (POH) will address these concerns to produce lasting improvements in how high-quality childcare is provided to young children with disabilities and their families. Project Open House is a 5 year project (2017-2021) and is funded by The Ohio Disabilities Developmental Disabilities Council Under The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, grant #17CH01SC17.