Note: this seminar is currently only available for School of Education faculty.

 

Dr. Roey Ahram, Associate Program Officer & Director of Field Engagement at the Spencer Foundation will visit the School of Education to help faculty learn about Spencer’s vision, upcoming grant opportunities, discuss the challenges of doing educational research, and help faculty craft proposals to the Foundation.

 

10:00 am - 11:30 am 

Presentation & Q & A with All Faculty: Dr. Roey Ahram

 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch and Listen: Dr. Ahram & Early Career Faculty
(Assistant-level Tenure-track & Clinical)

 

1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Office hours: 1:1 Meetings between Dr. Ahram and Individual Faculty (20-25 minutes in duration)

 

Dr. Ahram serves as an internal grant reviewer across all of Spencer's major grant programs and serves as the program lead for the foundation's Small Grants program and its field engagement work. Dr. Ahram’s research looks at how schools construct and make use of concepts of ability and disability, with a focus on special education disproportionality. He is the co-editor of and contributor to Race, Equity and Education: The Pursuit of Equality in Education 60 Years After Brown and has authored several works on the overrepresentation of Black students in special education as well as other topics related to educational equity. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, and before that he was a high school mathematics teacher in Worcester, MA. Roey received a PhD in Teaching and Learning from New York University, as well as an MA in Teaching and a BA in Philosophy from Clark University.

 

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