A study you can take apart.
Follow a study from its first question to its evidence. Open the parts, untangle the terminology, and see how the design works.
Explore the blueprintI’m exploring how we build schools where more people can learn, participate, and feel they belong. Here are some things I’m making, learning, and putting into practice.
Find something to exploreSchool psychology PhD student · Master’s in special education · Nearly a decade in schools
curious about how the pieces fit
Research, explanations, and work with educators.
Follow a study from its first question to its evidence. Open the parts, untangle the terminology, and see how the design works.
Explore the blueprintMy work co-facilitating trauma-informed professional learning with educators, connecting research to the everyday life of classrooms.
Meet the projectA proposed study of school belonging, emotional support, and academic engagement among adolescent boys.
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22 minA Portuguese-language video exploring the research conversation around screen use in childhood.
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64 minThe longer literature-review companion to the video on screens in childhood.
Watch the reviewI’m Danilo Giachini Ferro, a school psychology PhD student at UMass Amherst with a master’s in special education. My work has taken me through classroom teaching, educational assessment, and professional learning with educators.
I like understanding how the pieces fit together: a student’s experience, a relationship, a classroom, a whole school. That perspective shapes my path toward clinical practice and my interest in more inclusive learning environments.
This is where I share the work along the way—questions worth asking, explanations worth making, and resources that people can actually use.