Collaborative partnership to support K-12 students as they transition into higher education
Teaching students to investigate their past is a key component of a years-long project between the Putnam County Charter School System (PCCSS) and the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education.
Thanks to a new research-practice partnership grant from the Spencer Foundation, PCCSS and associate professor Theodore Kopcha will expand their ongoing partnership by weaving it together with Albany State University (ASU), a historically Black university in Albany, Georgia.
“Now that we have this direct connection with ASU, we’re asking how we can help students and understand what their expectations are coming in,” said Kopcha, an associate professor in the Department of Career and Information Studies. “A common perspective of college is that you either sink or swim. And so, this is really trying to create a space where we’re going to work with each other to figure out what’s best for the student.”