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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

✨Two of our amazing #CCBR team members, @nicolermisra.bsky.social & Luimil Negrón, will be presenting at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. If you will be at AERA, please check out these amazing presentations! #AERA2025 #AERA #CommunallyBonded

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

✨It's time for some of our #CCBR team the 2025 American Educational Research Association (@aeraedresearch.bsky.social )Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado! ✨Make sure to see our director, Dr. Jerome Morris, at one of his sessions! #AERA2025 #CommunallyBonded #CommunallyBondedResearch

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🎉Our graduate student & #CCBR team member, Nicole R. Misra (@nicolermisra.bsky.social), has a new journal article out, "Learner-centered teaching in rural Kenya: a case study," published online in the journal Teacher Development: doi.org/10.1080/1366... #EducationResearch #CommunallyBonded

Screenshot of journal article, "Learner-centered teaching in rural Kenya: a case study". The purpose of this research was to explore teachers’ perceptions and methods in line with the Kenyan government’s push for learner-centered education and integration of technology with learning. Through a postcolonial and culturally responsive framework, the researchers used a case study to describe Kenyan teachers’ perceptions of learner-centered teaching and their teaching methods following professional learning. Data sources included pre- and post-surveys, participant-generated artefacts, observations, and interviews. Findings reveal the majority of participants believed teachers’ roles should be flexible and democratic rather than authoritative. They spoke of their desire to implement authentic, hands-on, relevant teaching that reaches all learners. Participants held a theoretical value of active learning but perceived lack of technological devices to be a barrier to the implementation of
integrating teaching and technology. The data indicate that learner-centered teaching in postcolonial rural Kenya is happening
with minimal technology in classrooms but not as frequently as
teacher-centered activities.

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our #CCBR director, Dr. Jerome E. Morris's recent election as the 2025 - 2026 president-elect for the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social was featured in the UMSL Daily. 🎉 🔗Learn more about Dr. Morris and this historic honor: blogs.umsl.edu/.../10/jerom... #CCBR #UMSL #UMSLProud #Education

Screenshot of the UMSL Daily post that reads "Professor Jerome E. Morris voted American Educational Research Association president-elect."

"To be elected president represents the culmination of my scholarship, my commitment to the organization, my commitment to educational research and my belief in knowledge and scholarship as a vehicle to advance the public good...It embodies the work that I've done over the past three decades." Dr. Jerome E. Morris to UMSL Daily.

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🎉Congratulations to our #CCBR director, Dr. Jerome Morris, for being voted the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2025 - 2026 President- Elect! 🔗Read more here: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER... #CommunallyBonded #Education #EducationPolicy #AERA

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🎙️Our CCBR's director, Dr. Jerome Morris was featured in a new episode of the Total Information A.M. podcast this week! Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts: www.audacy.com/podcast/tota... #CommunallyBonded #Podcast #BlackHistoryMonth #EducationPolicy

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

✨One year later & nothing but praise for "Central City's Joy and Pain" by Jerome E. Morris ! Read more of this amazing review by Andrew S. Baer in the Alabama Review: dx.doi.org/10.1353/ala.... #CentralCitysJoyAndPain #TBRList #BlackHistoryMonth #BookReview

Graphic including the cover page of Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project by Jerome E. Morris along with a snippet from a book review by Andrew S. Baer from the Alabama Review:

Morris’s decision to interweave a sprawling family history with a
larger national history pays dividends. Alone, the story of Morris’s
mother, grandmother, seven surviving siblings, and extended kin
might fail to illuminate the larger forces that shaped Black lives in
the urban South then and now. Likewise, focusing only on myriad
local, state, and federal policies might make for a dry and ineffective
manuscript. But by weaving the two tales together, Morris provides
a history with body, heart, and soul.

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

✨It’s been a year since “Central City’s Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project” was released! Thanks to everyone who supported this book! If you haven’t already, make sure to get a copy today! #CentralCitysJoyAndPain #BookAnniversary #TBRPile #NonFictionBooks

Image of four boys from the cover of "Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in Birmingham Housing Project" by Jerome Morris. Captions says "One year of Central City's Joy and Pain"

Images from "Central City's Joy and Pain" including picture of a boycott; an image of the author, Jerome Morris, and his wife at their wedding; an image of the author's mother.

“These stories from Central City reflect the sadness, hope, and triumph we hear within African American spirituals. Like the blues, they create feelings of nostalgia, happiness, and sadness while reminding us of the realities that those at the economic and racial bottom of U.S. society must wake up and face every day. These stories, coming from our souls, would embody our dreams - dreams that are realized by some and swallowed up for others in the larger historical, social, economic, and political context of African Americans’ experiences during and after the Civil Rights Movement. Central City’s Joy and Pain depicts what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty in a rapidly evolving southern urban center.”

Jerome E. Morris
Author of Central City’s Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🎉New article from #CCBR team member, Nicole R. Misra (@nicolermisra.bsky.social)! Check it out here: drive.google.com/file/d/1BZ7T... #Education #CommunallyBonded #AcademicSky

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Center for Communally Bonded Research @ccbresearch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

✨Hi! We are the Center for Communally Bonded Research (CCBR)! We're a collaborative team of established scholars & emerging leaders led by our founder, Dr. Jerome E. Morris. Website🔗: communallybonded.org #AcademicSky #CommunityCentered #CommunallyBonded #Education #EducationPolicy

About CCBR: Emerging from decades of engaged research in urban and suburban communities and schools throughout the United States, The Center for Communally Bonded Research, CCBR officially launched in 2021. The Center is led by its founder, Dr. Jerome E. Morris, and a collaborative team of established scholars and emerging researchers carry out its mission and goals.

Our mission: The CCBR’s Mission is to enhance the experiences of historically marginalized groups by looking beyond individuals and institutions to focus on improving the larger ecosystem of individuals and groups’ experiences. Our mission includes addressing the most pressing educational, health, economic, social, and policy challenges facing historically marginalized groups by facilitating and promoting community-engaged and informed research and policies.

Our goals: Through our focus on communities, families, students, educational institutions, and community-based organizations, our goals include the following:

Lead and support interdisciplinary research

Engage communities, families, and youth as active members of and direct beneficiaries of research opportunities

Connect research to practice

Support early career scholars through mentoring and training

Provide resources to support promising research ideas

Disseminate scholarship and research-informed policy statements to multiple groups

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