February 15, 2011
Staten Island Campus -
The Staten Island Foundation and
Northfield Bank have awarded Dr. Regina Mistretta,
Associate Professor at the Staten Island Campus School of
Education, a total grant of $85K over the past two academic
years. The donation is being used to offer mathematics and
science parental engagement in the innovative program, In
Collaboration. This program provides graduate level
pre-service and in-service teachers of St. John’s University’s
School of Education, Staten Island campus with the opportunity to
research and cultivate parent-child collaborations in mathematics
and science by directly working with fourth grade non-public school
families.
The objective of In Collaboration is to benefit
both families and pre/in-service teachers. For
families, parents are given the opportunity to strengthen
their:
- Understanding of current mathematics and science curricula
- Skills at productively collaborating with their child’s
learning of mathematics and science
The program’s objective for each pre-service and in-service
teacher is to increase their understanding of:
- How and why parents and children work together the way they do
in mathematics and science
- Their role as teachers in cultivating productive parent-child
collaborations.
Accomplishing such objectives serves to create home-school
conditions that are conducive to higher academic achievement.
“The In Collaboration program is one that
brings the newly designed Teaching and Learning Labs alive!” says
Dr. Mistretta. “When envisioning the design of these
classrooms, both the campus community and outlying neighborhood
were populations I wanted to serve. This program brings those
populations together and serves them well with both content
knowledge and practical experience.”
The first part of the total grant was donated during the
2009-2010 Academic year and funded two months of the program.
The latest portion of the grant, in the amount of $50k, will help
support In Collaboration during the spring and
fall 2011 semesters. The Staten Island Foundation will be
back at St. John’s Staten Island campus on February 24th, to
present a check reflecting this latest contribution.
For more information about In Collaboration and
The
School of Education at the Staten Island Campus, please contact
Ms. Rosette Allegretti, Assistant to the Dean, The School of
Education, at 718-390-4130 or allegrer@stjohns.edu