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CLASP Collaborative

The Community Learning Around Sharing and Partnership (CLASP) collaborative is dedicated to fostering unity through collaboration within local communities.

The Community Learning Around Sharing and Partnership (CLASP) collaborative is dedicated to fostering unity through collaboration within local communities.

Learn more here on our project website.

 
 

PROJECT TEAM

 

Analysa Allison

Nebo Title VI Program

Breanne Litts

Utah State University

Charlene Pete

Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation

Christina Morgan

Utah State University

 

Clell Pete

Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation

Dallas Haws

Utah State University

Eileen Quintana

Nebo Title VI Program

James Cawley

Centerstar Creative

 

Neil Larson

Centerstar Creative

Jennifer Jenkins

Edith Bowen Laboratory School

Stuart Baggaley

Edith Bowen Laboratory School

 

 
 
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Centering Culture

The Centering Culture team is committed to contributing practical, accessible curricula and toolkits to support teams dedicated to developing their own and their teams’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Centering Culture tools and resources are designed and developed in partnership with practitioners, community members, and stakeholders in fields and with lived experiences relevant to the respective community and professional context.

The Centering Culture team is committed to contributing practical, accessible curricula and toolkits to support teams dedicated to developing their own and their teams’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Centering Culture tools and resources are designed and developed in partnership with practitioners, community members, and stakeholders in fields and with lived experiences relevant to the respective community and professional context. For more information, visit centeringculture.org.


PROJECT TEAM

Melissa Tehee

Project Lead

Christina Morgan

Contributer

Breanne Litts

Project Lead

Lili Yan

Contributer

Kenden Quayle

Project Manager

Dallas Haws

Contributer

 
 
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Community Research Trainings

As part of an NSF funded effort, the community research team seeks to develop resources and trainings to support researchers, community partners, and the public in learning how to conduct ethical research that is grounded in values of reciprocity, relationality, and respect. Our resources and trainings are available here.

As part of an NSF funded effort, the community research team seeks to develop resources and trainings to support researchers, community partners, and the public in learning how to conduct ethical research that is grounded in values of reciprocity, relationality, and respect. Our resources and trainings are available here.

 

PARTNERS


 
 
 

PROJECT LEADS


Nicole Vouvalis

Melissa Tehee

Breanne Litts

 

CURRENT TEAM


Dallas Haws

Christina Morgan

Kenden Quayle

Lili Yan

 

GRATITUDE TO PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTERS


Jess Ivie

Emily Jensen

 
 
 
 
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Braiding Knowledge

The Braiding Knowledge project is a collaboration between Dr. Melissa Tehee, Dr. Breanne Litts, and Dr. Rogelio Cardona-Rivera that seeks to create new forms of technology that support Indigenous perspectives. Learn more here on our project website.

The Braiding Knowledge project is a collaboration between Dr. Melissa Tehee, Dr. Breanne Litts, and Dr. Rogelio Cardona-Rivera that seeks to create new forms of technology that support Indigenous perspectives. Learn more here on our project website.

 
 
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Daigwade

The Daigwade project is a community-based effort with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. We are working with families to create place-based storytelling experiences that share and preserve the Tribe’s culture.

The Daigwade project (NSF Grant #1943630) is a community-based project with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.  The Daigwade project seeks to engage families in the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation with the overarching goal to preserve and share culture with digital and non-digital technologies. We are developing family and community programming to teach culture, technology, science, and art. Please check out the project website for more information about this project: daigwade.org.

 

PARTNERS


 
 
 

PROJECT LEAD


 

Breanne Litts

 
 

TEAM


Kenden Quayle | Project Manager

Minah Nguyen

Lili Yan

Dallas Haws

AlLisia Dawkins

McKay Colleni

Collin Tso

Melissa Tehee

Christina Morgan

Megan Hamilton

 
 
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Cultivating Connections

In partnership with Dr. Melissa Tehee (Psychology, USU) and her Tohi Lab, Dr. Litts and the LED Lab are working with Edith Bowen Laboratory School (K-6) to investigate how to collaboratively (re)design cross-cultural field experiences for sixth graders to effectively develop culturally competent citizen scholars. The key aim of the project is to cultivate connections across partners, cultures, and disciplines.

In partnership with Dr. Melissa Tehee (Psychology, USU) and her Tohi Lab, Dr. Litts and the LED Lab are working with Edith Bowen Laboratory School (K-6) to investigate how to collaboratively (re)design cross-cultural field experiences for sixth graders to effectively develop culturally competent citizen scholars. The key aim of the project is to cultivate connections across partners, cultures, and disciplines. This work is funded by USU’s Seed Program to Advance Research Collaborations and the Spencer Foundation.

 

PARTNERS


 

PROJECT LEADS


 

Melissa Tehee

Breanne Litts

 
 

TEAM


 

Lili Yan

Research Manager

Ella Olson

Project Manager

 

Stuart Baggaley

Erica Ficklin

Megan Hamilton

Chase Mortensen

Jennifer Jenkins

Nate Justis

Cedric Mannie

Collin Tso

Kenden Quayle

McKay Colleni

Devon Isaacs

Kameica Yazzie

Lili Yan

 

FUNDERS


 
 
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TEACH Training

The LED Lab and the Tohi Lab partnered to rebrand and redesign the TEACH cultural competence training to make it accessible to the USU community and more broadly to the public.

With funds from a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence award, Dr. Melissa Tehee and the Tohi Lab developed the TEACH cultural competence training. The LED Lab and the Tohi Lab partnered to rebrand and redesign the TEACH cultural competence training to make it accessible to the USU community and more broadly to the public. These combined efforts were funded, in part, by Utah State University President’s Office, the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, and the Instructional Technology & Sciences Department. The training is available here.

 

PROJECT LEADS


 

Melissa Tehee

Breanne Litts

 

TEAM


Emily Jensen | Project Manager

Erica Ficklin

Sallie Mack

Kenden Quayle

Jess Ivie

Cedric Mannie

Devon Isaacs

FUNDING PARTNERS


 
 
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Teaching Online During COVID-19

This research project investigates the interaction of teachers and staff at a local elementary school as they navigate the shift to teaching remotely during a pandemic. We are specifically seeking to understand how this school's staff apply their collaborative culture to address the unprecedented challenges of teaching online.

This research project investigates the interaction of teachers and staff at a local elementary school as they navigate the shift to teaching remotely during a pandemic. We are specifically seeking to understand how this school's staff apply their collaborative culture to address the unprecedented challenges of teaching online.

 

PROJECT LEAD


 

Nate Justis

 

TEAM


Kenden Quayle

McKay Colleni

Lili Yan

Breanne Litts

PUBLICATIONS


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