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
Since October 2016 when Amy began, she has developed a portfolio of contacts in the local public ISDs, charter schools, and private schools. These contacts are with superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, school board members, and teachers.
Outreach Services include:
- 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
AMY JURICA
Relationship Development
With Our 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.
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.
With Texas School Districts 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 Other 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.