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Natalee Foster joined the KFAC team in January 2020. She has had over 3 years of experience working with children in educational and clinical settings. Natalee received her bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas in August 2021 and will begin her Master’s in Behavior Analysis in the fall of 2022.

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Kimberly Tansey

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Resistance or Racism? Unpacking Critical Race Theory Bans in a Sociopolitical Era of Anti-Racism

Dr. Veronica Jones Baldwin and her co-PI, Dr. Kaleb Briscoe, who have been awarded a prestigious Spencer Foundation grant for their important research project titled “Resistance or Racism? Unpacking Critical Race Theory Bans in a Sociopolitical Era of Anti-Racism.”

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Capacity Building: Creating and Sustaining a Pathway for Engineering Majors to be STEM Teachers

Colleen Eddy was awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Colleen McLean Eddy will serve as PI along with Dr. Zhenhua Huang (Co-PI) in the UNT College of Engineering on a research project entitled, "Capacity Building: Creating and Sustaining a Pathway for Engineering Majors to be STEM Teachers." This research project will investigate engineering majors, especially students of color, interest in becoming and retaining them as STEM teachers.

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Investigating North Texas Teacher Pipelines: Analysis of New Teacher Careers and Student Outcomes

The purpose of this project is to examine whether new teachers who are prepared through programs with a focus on recruiting, training, and placing students from a geographically local context, have higher retention rates and larger impacts on student achievement compared to teachers prepared through non-localized programs. At the intersection of leadership, policy, and practice, the results of this study will provide important evidence about north Texas teacher pipelines, with an explicit focus on outcomes for new teachers of Color and the students they serve.