Kristin Simmers, Forman’s Director of Cognition and Learning and a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at UConn, is building an exciting partnership that creates learning and research opportunities for students and faculty at both schools.
In a recent UConn Today article, Simmers shares, “We absolutely benefit from having experts and researchers come to us and help us better understand our students, our practice. And, I think the larger research community benefits from having really specialized research on a really unique group of learners.”
Head of School Amy Clemons also reflects on the school’s vision for growing partnerships.
“We have to be out in the world participating with what’s going on as much as we’re doing what’s right for our students here,” Clemons says. “Whether it’s best practices or ongoing research, I can imagine the connection with UConn will utilize what both schools see as next steps for the education of our students in a way that drives it forward.”
Beyond UConn, Forman is collaborating with Stanford University’s ROAR project and Harvard Innovation Labs on an educational app designed to support learning.
Pictured (L-R): Fumiko Hoeft, Campus Dean and Chief Administrative Officer of UConn Waterbury, and Kristin Simmers, Director of Cognition and Learning, speak on the panel during Forman's Telling Our Way: A Day of Film & Neurodivergent Celebration in October.
