Research is thought leading and it prepares us for tomorrow, even an unanticipated tomorrow, like today. To varying extents, our faculty have anticipated the need to resolve the challenges of racism, educational inequities, and school disruption – let alone wildfires, floods, and pandemics – and subjected each to rigorous research.

What differs about today is the urgency to apply this research to resolve long-standing problems, or at least mitigate them until further discoveries are made, and certainly, begin to effect change. I have started sending out e-communications in the spirit of urgency that I feel to effect change. While I do not want to act in the absence of evidence, in many cases, there is a sufficient corpus of knowledge available to allow us to take action based on promising evidence.

Like other institutions, we rolled out apps, curricula, and remote-instruction guidance to teachers and caregivers based on their possessing at least promising evidence of efficacy. However, I am feeling the need to do more to help children, their teachers, their parents and other caregivers, by disseminating research findings and promising practices sooner, and to a broader audience. That is the spirit of my emails, blog posts, and newsletter communications.

Learn About Dean McIntyre’s Research 

In the March 2024 edition of Research Briefly, I talk with the College of Education communications team to discuss an NIH funded study that looks at the long-term effects of COVID-related school closures.

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Research Driving Change: Fall 2024 Newsletter

Research Driving Change: Fall 2023 Newsletter

Research Driving Change: Fall 2022 Newsletter