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Welcome!
The Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) is focused on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty. CREDE promotes research by university faculty and graduate students and provides educators with a range of tools to help them implement best practices in the classroom.
Research is promoted by
- Obtaining extramural research grants through the competitive struggle for federal, state and private research funds.
- Encouraging collaboration across disciplines and institutions.
- Disseminating research results through working papers, research briefs, and practitioner briefs.
The Center offers:
Publications - Documents by CREDE researchers for reading online and purchase, including Research Reports, Research Briefs, Educational Practitioner Reports, Practitioner Briefs, ERIC Digests, Talking Leaves Newsletters, and Books by CREDE Researchers.
Multi-media - CD-ROMs and videotapes on the Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy, including an interactive series in which users can customize lessons and work at their own pace.
Professional Development Services - Through interactive workshops, seminars, and online courses, CREDE works with teachers, schools, and districts that are interested in improving practices and designing programs which help students overcome academic, linguistic and social barriers to learning.
Speaker series – Leading experts, practitioners and researchers in education come to the Graduate School of Education to discuss important issues related to best pedagogical practices, present their work and offer recommendations for policy and practice.
Special Events –
2009 CREDE Conference: Improving Recruitment, Development & Retention Through Effective Pedagogy
CREDE's philosophy
• All children can learn.
• Children learn best when challenged by high standards.
• English proficiency is an attainable goal for all students.
• Bilingual proficiency is desirable for all students.
• Language and cultural diversity can be assets for teaching and learning.
• Teaching and learning must accommodate individuals.
• Schools can mitigate risk factors by teaching social and learning skills.
• Solutions to risk factors must be grounded in a valid general theory of developmental, teaching, and schooling processes.
The CREDE Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy
An important facet of CREDE's work is the development of a pedagogy that has been proven to be effective in educating all students, especially at-risk students. The Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy do not endorse a specific curriculum but, rather, establish ideals for best teaching practices that can be used in any classroom environment for any grade level or group of students. The Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy are:
1) Teachers and Students Producing Together
Facilitate learning through joint productive activity among teachers and students.
2) Developing Language and Literacy Across the Curriculum
Develop students' competence in the language and literacy of instruction throughout all instructional activities.
Connect curriculum to experience and skills of students' home and community.
Challenge students toward cognitive complexity.
5) Teaching through Conversation
Engage students through dialogue, especially instructional conversation.
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