While at Stanford, Ericka has worked in partnership with a California school district to help answer high priority and actionable research questions;
mentored first and second year doctoral students as a part of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program; served as a doctoral student representative on the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies Area Committee; and served as a teaching assistant for quantitative and theoretical courses on educational inequality.
At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research
and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 -
year IRACDA grant renewed for a
second term,
first -
year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing
mentored research
and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes
and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States»
first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania;
and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.
The planning for the
mentoring program for
first -
and second -
year principals began in the spring,
and kicked off in the fall with 20 new administrators, according to Jackie Chavis, chief academic officer for the school district.