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
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
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
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
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
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
