An integral part of the UC Davis School of Education, the Center
for Cooperative Research and Extension Services for Schools
(CRESS) bridges the worlds of research and practice and builds
the capacity of teachers, leaders, schools and communities to
meet the needs of California’s diverse student body.
Center for Community School Partnerships Teams Up with CA
Department of Health
The Center for Community School Partnerships is partnering with
the California Department of Public Health to empower school age
youth to make healthy choices about food and exercise. The work
is supported through a $1.8 M. inter-agency agreement.
As a new partner in the California Department of Public Health’s
Network for a Healthy California, the new CRESS team faces a
tight schedule to fulfill the nine-month contract.
The California Postsecondary Education Commission has awarded the School of Education a three-year $926,000 Improving Teacher Quality Grant. Vajra Watson, director of research and policy for equity in the CRESS Center, is the lead project director. Chris Thaiss, director of the University Writing Program, is the co-director.
A new project underway in CRESS involves researching and
analyzing pathways back to healthy development, education, and
achievement for incarcerated youth. Contact: Dr. Vajra Watson
(EdD), Director of Research and Policy for Equity
(vmwatson@ucdavis.edu).
During the 2007-2008 and the 2008-2009 academic years, the CRESS
Center, in the School of Education, UC Davis, invited proposals
for grants to campus faculty, staff, graduate students, and K-12
teachers and administrators. The purpose of these grants was to
promote collaborative educational research projects that focused
on strengthening elementary and secondary education. Preference
was given to proposals that either included a CRESS Project as a
collaborative partner or informed the work of a CRESS Project.
