about us

St. Carries Center for Human Development was started in 2001 to conduct educational research. Our first research project was a literacy based project “How the Brain Acquires a Second Language”. The Executive Director conducted a single case study with her own brain and acquired 5 European Languages in 2.5 years. We spent the next 2.5 years in Mexico conducting a group study at an orphanage where American and European volunteers came to Mexico to teach English and learn Spanish. The project was abruptly discontinued due to the SARS outbreak and the border was closed.

2007-2012, we conducted research on Reading and Math Fluency in the Southern United States, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. We conducted school evaluations and implemented School wide behavior supports to increase achievement. We conducted workshops on Classroom Management, Reading, Math and Conflict Resolution. We conducted workshops at College on the same subjects as well as Study and Work Abroad workshops.

In 2013, we established St. Carries Center SMART (Science, Math, Art, Reading, Technology) Academy in Riverside County. Our goals was to increase the involvement of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in STEAM. Our goal was to diversify the STEM pipe-lining, one student at a time.

Our major project in The SMART Academy was an organic garden. We examined energy, water, soil and the relationship to life. Our lessons in Math, Art, Reading and Technology focused on the organic gardening.

In 2013, we also registered our organization in Kenya and Tanzania. We worked with girl’s programs, primary schools and Universities. Our goal was to increase the access of all children in East Africa to a quality education by teaching students and training teachers. We encouraged Universities in East Africa to develop an internship program where University Students actually went to schools to learn how to teach children before they graduated from University.

In 2020 COVID shut us down. It was a devastating blow. During this time we coached Educators at all levels online and tutored students in Math. We conducted research and discovered that Black children were the lowest performing students in Math in the country. WE also discovered that Black students lacked access to quality Math lessons around the world.

In 2022 we committed to an Afrocentric Online Math Research Program designed to increase the Achievement of Black students in the United States, Afro descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean – and later Africa and the world. We have written a Pan African Applied Research Project which commits our efforts to increase the achievement of Black Students globally by utilizing brain based research, culturally relevant curriculum and providers that are ethnically matched.