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Spotlight: "COVID Connects Us" Brings Mentorship to Rochester Schools During the pandemic last fall, April Luehmann, PhD of the Warner Graduate School of Education, partnered with Paul Levy, MD (then chair of the Department of Medicine) and URMC faculty and residents to create an anti-racist, student-centered COVID-19 curriculum in Monroe and Ontario County School Districts called, "COVID Connects Us". Predominantly African American faculty and residents from the Department of Medicine and other departments provided accurate, culturally-sensitive scientific information to the classroom students while simultaneously exciting them about a diverse set of career opportunities in science and medicine. Dr. Luehmann co-developed the COVID curriculum with her network of collaborating science teachers to highlight Next Generation Science Standards and focus specifically on the health care and economic disparities which face our Black, indigenous, and people of color neighborhoods right here in Rochester. This URMC community outreach touched over 750 students in six school districts as the physician mentors answered student questions, gave feedback on their presentations, and helped them understand the often messy process of scientific discovery. As an organizer of this effort, Dr. Levy commented “a COVID-informed student is a COVID-safe student.” This collaboration was incredibly successful and is captured in the 3-minute video created for this project. The Warner School of Education created the video with the participating science teachers (all graduates of the Warner GetReal! program) as part of a national exposition contest related to STEM programming in public schools. The Warner School was selected to present this work at annual STEM Video Showcase, and the National Science Foundation has given Dr. Luehmann a “recommended” status on her grant proposal to model this curriculum for schools across the nation. Funding by National Science Foundation (project #1758238) and Greater Rochester Health Foundation.
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