2024-2025 Funded Grants
Collaborative Project Grants
- Dr. Debbie French, Department of Education – Conversations with an Author: Climate Change Education in the United States (April 2025)
- Dr. Leni Caldwell, Department of Education – Achieving Together: Implementing literacy Interventions Through University Tutoring Partnership (Spring 2026)
- Christopher Sheridan, Chris Zaluski and Peter Gilbert, Documentary Film Program – Screening event and discussion honoring the 30th Anniversary of the documentary film Hoop Dreams (March 2025)
Community Partnership Grants
- Dr. Kate Allman, Winston-Salem TEACH –Miracle Adventures at Crossnore Community for Children (June 2025)
- Dr. Brook Davis, Department of Theatre and Dance – Shakespeare Day with Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools (April 2025)
- Dr. Keri Epps, Department of English, with Authoring Action’s, Lynn Rhoades and Nathan Freeman – National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention (November 2024)
Book Grants
- Dr. Lauren Miller, Department of Spanish – Books for the Mineral Springs Elementary Students graduating from the Puedo Leer Program (June 2025)
- Colleen Foy, Z. Smith Reynolds Library – Books for the Crossnore Public Charter School (January 2025)
- Annie Russell, Project DESK Student Director, Office of Civic and Community Engagement – Books for K-5 Students through Project DESK (January 2025)
- Dr. Leni Caldwell, Department of Education – Perspectives and Gratitude: Thanking Teachers with Diverse Disciplinary Texts (January 2025)
Event Sponsorships
- Dr. Lauren Miller, Department of Spanish – “Spanish So White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a ‘Foreign’ Language Education” by Dr. Adam Schwartz (September 2024)
- Dr. Alan Brown, Department of Education – “‘I’ma put the lil homies on next’: Mixtape Methodology and Meaning Making through Hip-Hop Literacy” by Dr. Donovan Livingston (Wake Forest Leadership, Equity, and Education Series, October 2024)
- Dr. Casey Holmes, Department of Education – “Fostering Student Hopefulness with Critical Civic Education” (Wake Forest EDU Professional Learning Series, October 2024)
- Carol Torres, First in the Forest Program – Financial Literacy Workshops for First in the Forest Students by Brian Li (October 2024)
- Dr. Yasuko Rallings, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures –
“Anticolonial and Antiracist Approaches to Language Instruction” by Dr. L. J. Randolph, Jr. (April 2025)
Interdisciplinary Teaching Grants
- Dr. Alan Brown, Department of Education, with Heather Barto Wiley, R.J. Reynolds High School – EDU 101: Censorship & Young Adult Literature (Fall 2025)
- Dr. Ali Sakkal, Department of Education, with Paul Whitener, WakerSpace – EDU 111: Maker Literacy in Action (Spring 2025)
Professional Development Grants
- Dr. Kate Allman, Winston-Salem TEACH – Voices from the Field: Expert-Led Professional Development on Teaching in Title I Schools (Spring 2025)
- Dr. Dani Parker Moore, Department of Education – Let’s Normalize Seeing Humanity First: An Anti-Racist Guide for Working with Parents and Caregivers in School (Spring 2025)
Student Research Grants
- Ella Erikson, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Julia Susalka, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Caroline Braun, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Sydney Branch, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Alydia Warden, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Rachel Rosen, Bridging English Research Project (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joan Mitchell)
- Cahner Smith, Global Literacy in Action: A Costa Rican Study Abroad Experience (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dani Parker Moore)
- Jeffery Ayako, Global Literacy in Action: A Costa Rican Study Abroad Experience (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dani Parker Moore)
- Alexandra Eliasek, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Makenna Hirsch-Arnett, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Marykate Lundy, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Meaghan Mosher, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Emma Stein, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Grace Stump, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Abbie Warren, Reading Foundations Workshop (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leni Caldwell)
- Anna Breaugh, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joan Mitchell)
- Emerson Crichton, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joan Mitchell)
- Grace Hernandez, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Keri Epps)
- Rachel Rosen, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joan Mitchell)