fSTAR
Family, Student, and Teacher Academic Resilience (fSTAR)
Overview
The Family, Student and Teacher Academic Resilience (fSTAR) Pillar of NCEED recognizes the power of partnership between schools and families, and networking with community-based organizations to elevate students’ academic performance. fSTAR supports equity from a community assets perspective that recognizes the strengths and value of families, indigenous institutions and the history of local communities.
fSTAR utilizes the history and cultural capital of Morgan State University as an anchor institution in Baltimore City and the third largest historically Black university in the nation by employing a transdisciplinary approach that takes advantage of scholarship and intellectual capital across academic disciplines and the power of an alumni network to create conditions and opportunities for success for school children.
By combining community participatory research and traditional scholarship, fSTAR seeks to craft effective interventions using an equity lens that will improve three facets of schooling: 1) Student Academic Achievement 2) Parent/Family Engagement and 3) School Building Climate.
Impact
Our community engagement and research directly impact students’ self-awareness, goal setting and academic performance to improve student outcomes while also assisting families in recognizing practices and resources that can be helpful in aiding their student’s success.
Goals
Strategies
Latest News
Walter Fields Presents Research Findings at Caribbean Studies Association Conference
fSTAR lead Walter Fields recently attended the 50th Anniversary Caribbean Studies Association conference in St. Maarten to present research findings for a paper on Life Satisfaction in Guyana. This paper was co-authored with Morgan State University Sociology Department Chairman Dr. Leon Wilson and fellow doctoral student Kiaron Bailey. Walter focused [...]
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