Our Experience
Below are selected projects and partnerships that we are currently working on. Past projects can be viewed here.
We Are Water
This collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-DRL #1907024) created a traveling exhibit and complementary programming around critical water topics and is touring libraries across the Four Corners region that serve primarily rural, Latin(x) and Indigenous communities. Jill is leading a process evaluation and summative evaluation, in collaboration with Native Pathways, to support collaboration across diverse partners, help develop and document key measures of success, and support understanding around culturally responsive research and community engagement.
CIRCLES NSF INCLUDES Alliance
Jill is leading a process evaluation in support of a yearlong planning grant led by the University of Montana, designed to develop a cross-jurisdiction alliance of six EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) state partners. The CIRCLES Alliance (Cultivating Indigenous Research Communities for Leadership in Education and STEM) is focused on building better pathways to engage Native American students in STEM fields and careers. The evaluation team has focused on understanding the extent to which partners’ perceptions of project goals align, the extent to which partners feel included and heard, and what supports are needed to create growth and sustainability of the alliance’s efforts.
Culturally Sustaining STEAM
Culturally Sustaining STEM is a four-year Research in Service to Practice project where research and evaluation results inform the iterative development of multi-day, culturally-sustaining, informal STEM learning workshops for families in rural American communities. Reimagine Research Group is conducting a formative and summative evaluation with two primary aims: 1) to ensure the best possible implementation of the program model components around which the research will be conducted at the participating sites; and 2) to determine the ways in which research findings are understood and incorporated into programming at each site through the design-based research process.
LIFEways: Learning in and from the Environment through Multiple ways of Knowing
In support of this Research-to-Practice project’s broader aim of documenting how Indigenous ways of knowing (IWK) are currently included in outdoor learning environments, Reimagine Research Group and Native Pathways are partnering to conduct wise practices research and collaborative-process research that will then be shared and disseminated to practitioners through a community of practice (Circle of Relations) in order to strengthen the field’s capacity to center IWK in outdoor learning environments. The research process aims to document diverse worldviews around outdoor learning, or learning from the land, water, and sky, what wise practices bring together IWK and western science in outdoor learning, and what successes and barriers emerge through these processes and how partners navigate inclusion of Indigenous and western perspectives in outdoor learning.
Since we design each project to suit your specific needs and context, we recommend that you contact us for a free 60-minute consultation to discuss your research or evaluation needs and how we might best work together.