Community initiativesThe faculty, staff and students at the Warner School are actively involved in a variety of community initiatives. Explore Faculty & Research Publications Community Initiatives Research Projects /faculty-research/professional-learning-network Northeast Noyce Professional Learning NetworkThe 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. ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Northeast Noyce Professional Learning Network /faculty-research/roc-reading-partners ROC Reading PartnersROC 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about ROC Reading Partners /faculty-research/workforce-english-program Languaging for Health and Employment EquityThis initiative employs a comprehensive approach to English language education. The program offers a variety of courses tailored to the unique needs of working refugees and immigrants, incorporating a blend of onsite English learning at participants’ workplaces and online learning.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Languaging for Health and Employment Equity /faculty-research/step-to-college Step to College programStep 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Step to College /faculty-research/stem-partnership Nathaniel Rochester Community School partnership in STEM educationA 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Learn more /faculty-research/supervision Constructive Clinical SupervisionProfessional 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Learn more /faculty-research/east-high-school East High School partnership initiativeIn 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about East High School partnership /faculty-research/project-cells Project CELLS: Western New York collaboration for English language learner successCompleted in 2018, community-wide collaboration to improve outcomes for English language learners by increasing teachers with TESOL certification, professional development, and curriculum for refugee and immigrant students.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Project CELLS /faculty-research/leadership-coaching Leadership coaching certificate programA partnership between the Warner Center for Professional Development and Ramerman Leadership Group, leadership coaching assists the leader in developing specific leadership skills, enhances individual effectiveness and secures organizational performance.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about leadership coaching /faculty-research/genesee-valley-writing-project Genesee Valley Writing ProjectThis 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Genesee Valley Writing Project /faculty-research/project-read Project READ: A literacy program for at-risk studentsA 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Project READ /faculty-research/get-real-science Get Real! ScienceGet 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.ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ More about Get Real! Science