Faculty and Staff

Early Childhood Education--Program Coordinator for Early Childhood Special Education accelerated Master's program--Research Interests: early literacy, constructive teaching & learning, teacher preparation.

Elementary Education--Areas of Expertise: Supervision, community and school integration, leadership, Fatherhood and schools--Research Interests: School, home, and community development; supervision; non-traditional teachers.

Elementary Education--Graduate Director of MS Ed ELE program and Curriculum & Instruction graduate certificate. Research interests: Practice-Based Teacher Education, Science Teacher Education, Teacher Noticing, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies.

Elementary Education--Areas of Expertise: Elementary education, curriculum, family engagement, educational leadership, teacher preparation--Research interests: Building relationships, student engagement, cultural diversity, women in leadership.

Elementary Education--Areas of Expertise: Elementary education, curriculum, cultural studies, educational leadership, teacher narratives of experience--Research: Elementary teacher narratives, curriculum, culturally responsive teaching.

Elementary Education--Research interests: Teacher Education, Lives of Teachers, Digital Storytelling, Literacy, Narrative and Self Study Methodology.

Elementary Education--ELE Program Coordinator--Research Interests: Mathematics education--teacher preparation, teacher support (professional development and coaching), and equitable teaching practices.

Elementary Education--Professional Interests: Cooperative learning and differentiated instruction.

Elementary Education--ELE Outreach Campuses Coordinator & ELE Mathematics Specialist Graduate Program Coordinator--Research: Mathematics educational development for pre-service and in-service teacher (K-12); building/connecting mathematical concepts.

Elementary Education--ELE Gifted Certification Program Coordinator, ELE Communication Arts Instructor, Early Childhood Student Teacher Supervisor--Research: Gifted Education Educator Preparation & Identification in Under Represented Groups.

Elementary Education--Internship Academy Coordinator

Elementary Education--Research Interests: Using nature to teach all content areas.

Elementary Education--Research Interests: Teaching for civic engagement and global understanding, culturally sustaining pedagogies, social studies education in public diplomacy and countering violent extremisim.

Faculty Emeritus--Areas of expertise: Science and literacy, and program review.

Faculty Emeritus--Areas of expertise: Elementary education, clinical supervision, school law, history of education, school administration, classroom management.

Faculty Emeritus--Areas of expertise and research interests: Children's writing (process, skills, motivation), literacy and comprehension strategies, and economic education supported by children's literature.

Faculty Emeritus--Elementary Education

Faculty Emeritus--Elementary Education

Faculty Emeritus--Elementary Education

Child & Family Development--Research Interests: Focus on diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice; culturally responsive literature; and social, emotional, and moral development.

Early Childhood Education--Research Interests: Children's make-believe play, creativity, emotional intelligence, service-learning, and teacher perceptions.

Child & Family Development--Research interests: Young children's social emotional development, teachers' emotion language in early childhood classrooms, teacher preparation, anti-bias curriculum, and workplace support.

Child & Family Development--Research Interests: Work-family balance of U.S. working mothers, cross-cultural studies, theory development, participatory action research, and social justice.

Child & Family Development--Faculty Advisor for the Advocating for Families & Children student group.

Areas of expertise: Infant development, cross-cultural studies of development, young children's development in child care settings, social and communicative development.

Faculty Emeritus--Areas of expertise: Maternal guilt, home visitation, parenthood education for adolescent parents, emotional development and child care.

Child Life Coordinator--Research Interests: Childhood trauma and resilience; Child life in alternative settings, specifically in disasters, emergency events, and other community crises.

Early Childhood Education--ECE Program Coordinator--Research Interests: Women's issues in schools-specifically the intersection of mothering, leading, and teaching; early childhood teacher preparation and development.

Early Childhood Education--Research Interests: Children's make-believe play, creativity, emotional intelligence, service-learning, and teacher perceptions.

Early Childhood Education--Program Coordinator for Early Childhood Special Education accelerated Master's program--Research Interests: early literacy, constructive teaching & learning, teacher preparation.

Early Childhood Education--Program Coordinator for the Early Childhood Internship Academy--Area of Expertise: Population Education Facilitator.

Early Childhood Education--Research Interests: Professional culture in schools; social networks in early childhood education; roles of lead teachers and teaching assistants in early childhood education; P-3 perspectives on early childhood education.

Faculty Emeritus--Areas of expertise an research interests: Adult learning styles, working with young children with special needs and accreditation issues.

Family and Consumer Sciences--Recent presentation on using breakouts as an instructional strategy.