Outreach Services
To assist and serve research faculty in connecting with schools, agencies, and other interested stakeholders to provide space and opportunity for educational and research purposes.
How We Can Help You
Since 2016, Amy Jurica has helped our CEHD researchers connect with the public by cultivating a portfolio of contacts across the community and local schools. This includes relationships with public ISDs, charter schools, and private schools, as well as business leaders, community organizers, superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, school board members, and educators.
Outreach Services
- Supporting our faculty researchers in developing and maintaining relationships with research stakeholders and participants (schools or agencies)
- Coordinating with the CEHD Marketing and Communications team to help our researchers market their work
- Helping with the recruitment of study participants
- Assisting in obtaining letters of support for proposal development
- Promoting the CEHD in the field of education and beyond
- Maintaining communication between the REO Office and faculty researchers
Relationship Development
With Our Faculty
In order to help best match research goals with the needs of schools, Amy must understand the dynamics of all stakeholders including the research faculty.
- Amy meets with our faculty to learn as much as possible about their projects to effectively promote the work.
- Amy works with them to develop ideas about how to engage community stakeholders, where to go, or who to contact for their research ideas.
With Texas School District Partners
Amy has developed relationships with schools statewide, with a focus in the Houston area.
- She has built good will with and developed a portfolio of contacts with administrators and state education leaders, local public ISDs, charter schools, and private schools. This includes: the State Board of Education, Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TEPSA) and the Region Service Centers across the state.
- She attends education conferences statewide to promote the CEHD in the field of education.
With Community Partners
To assist the research activities occurring outside school districts, Amy facilitates outreach with a variety of local agencies.
- She has worked extensively with several local agencies (Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center, Brazos Valley Council for Independent Living, Brazos Valley Council of Governments, United Way of the Brazos Valley to name a few) as a conduit to promote the work of faculty researchers and research centers of CEHD.