Penn State Abington students, University of Technology students and Katrina Black Reed playing dandy shandy, a popular Jamaican children’s game resembling dodgeball.
Penn State Abington students, Katrina Black Reed, Kimberley Hemmings-Jarrett and tour guide hold up number one for the first trip to Jamaica. From left to right: Kazuyoshi Miyazaki, Swain Reid (tour guide), Daeja Newman, Dr. Katrina Black Reed (co-lead), Mya Lepard, Darryl Gregory (back), Sarah Johnson, CyNaa Mitchell, Kimberley Hemmings-Jarrett (lead), Yash Amin (back), Gabriella Gibilante, Brianna Thompson, Keon Hayes
A grant from Penn State’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence funded training for Penn State Abington faculty to advance teaching for equity and inclusion by better incorporating such elements into their pedagogy.
Kimberley Hemmings-Jarrett, assistant teaching professor of business and social science at Penn State Abington, recently integrated two Experiential Digital Global Engagement (EDGE) projects into her embedded course on social media analytics and inclusive leisure last fall. The EDGE program, a global virtual exchange initiative rooted in project-based learning, draws inspiration from the Collaborative Online International Learning program established at the State University of New York. Since 2022, Hemmings-Jarrett has leveraged the EDGE program in her teaching efforts.
