Marisa Crowder
About
Marisa Crowder is REL Pacific’s overall partnership lead, coordinating partnership projects and major activities across the region’s seven jurisdictions. In the 2017–22 REL cycle, she worked in close collaboration with education leaders in Hawai‘i and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) to strengthen systemwide capacity to implement social and emotional learning. Dr. Crowder also led two REL Pacific partnerships that aimed to develop math transition course initiatives in the CNMI and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She currently facilitates the Cross-REL Leadership group on Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy. Dr. Crowder can be contacted at mcrowder@mcrel.org.
Associated IES Content
Blog
Republic of the Marshall Islands Partnership to Support Foundational Teaching and Learning
The RMI Ministry of Education, Public School System, and the College of the Marshall Islands have partnered with REL Pacific to develop a culturally relevant and sustaining education framework that is grounded in Marshallese culture, language, context, and ways of knowing.
Date published:
Dec 22, 2023
Blog
Contextualizing Education Partnerships in the Pacific Region
REL Pacific partnerships are structured to support evidence-based and equitable decision making for education change in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific region. This structure, illustrated as a pandanus tree, honors the priorities of education entities in the Pacific, while maximizing the resources provided by the REL program.
Date published:
Apr 21, 2023
report
Descriptive Study
Associations between High School Students' Social-Emotional Competencies and Their High School and College Academic and Behavioral Outcomes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
This study addressed the need expressed by education stakeholders in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to better understand their high school students' social-emotional competencies and how those competencies might be associated with students' academic and behavioral outcomes in high school and college. Social-emotional competencies refer to the knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors that help students recognize and manage their emotions, build positive relationships, and make respo...
Jul 01, 2021
report
Descriptive Study
Demographic and Academic Characteristics Associated with College Readiness and Early College Success in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
In the Republic of the Marshall Islands, college readiness and early college success are major concerns. More than 75 percent of a recent cohort of incoming students at the College of the Marshall Islands placed into developmental courses, which suggests that students might not be academically prepared to take postsecondary coursework. A lack of research on predictors of college readiness and early college success for Marshallese students makes it difficult to develop and implement targeted i...
Apr 12, 2021
Blog
Key Considerations for Promoting Culturally Relevant SEL During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unique social-emotional challenges to students across the globe. Social distancing efforts have changed daily routines, separated many students from their social support networks and, for some, have introduced and exacerbated stressors within their living environments.1, 2, 3 These social-emotional challenges disproportionately affect students who are racial minorities and from working-class families, as they are at higher risk for exposure to the coronavirus a...
Date published:
May 19, 2020
Blog
Culturally Informed Social and Emotional Learning in the Pacific Region: Prioritizing Local Voices to Meet Local Needs
Student learning reflects more than just the quality of instruction. Negative peer or teacher relationships, feelings of unsafety, or isolation at school can impact students' capacity, or willingness, to learn. To help students develop the social and emotional competencies (SECs) necessary to cope with these stressors, educators have turned their attention toward social and emotional learning (SEL). Students working together in class. SEL refers to the acquisition of kn...
Date published:
Jul 16, 2018