Childhood Education
Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Qualitative research methodology, race and social justice
- School reform initiatives including the charter movement
Community Schools
Naorah Rimkunas
Assistant Professor; Senior Director, Binghamton University Community Schools
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; CCPA Social Work; Binghamton University Community Schools
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Early Childhood Education
Elizabeth M. Anderson
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Integrating a community schools approach with an expanded Multi-Tiered System of Supports framework to support students, families and communities
- How to improve the alignment and integration of programs and services by strengthening university-school-community partnerships.
Educational Foundations
Lightning Jay
Assistant Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Supporting students to engage in authentic, rigorous, and student-centered historical discourse.
- Facilitating the development of social studies teachers.
- Understanding teacher education pedagogy and teachers' development of adaptive expertise.
Education Minor
David Archer
Lecturer, Undergraduate Minor Coordinator
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Understanding what leads to individuals reaching peak performance as students and as athletes
- Skills and concepts of Leadership
Educational Leadership
Suzanne McLeod
Coordinator of Educational Leadership
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
English Education
Matthew L. McConn
TLEL Department Chair, Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- The impact of standards on teacher development for the teaching of literary appreciation
- The professional development of teaching English in secondary schools
- The processes of change in secondary English teachers’ perceptions regarding the purposes of teaching literature.
Literacy Education
Marla H. Mallette
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- understanding the role of teachers’ and students’ beliefs about literacy learning
- teacher expectations
- early literacy learning
- literacy instruction and intervention
- mixed methods research in literacy
Bogum Yoon
Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Critical literacies
- Critical global literacies
- Critical analysis of children’s and youth literature
- Cultural pluralism
- Positional identities
- Language and literacy theories into practice
- Development of literacy frameworks
- Teacher education for immigrant students and English language learners
Mary J. Visser
Lecturer
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- The role of school principals in K-12 literacy learning
Mathematics Education
Amber Simpson
Associate Professor; Co-Assistant Director
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Institute for Justice and Well-Being: Advancing Equity through Community Schools
Research Interests
- Examining individual’s identity(ies) in one or more STEM disciplines
- Understanding the role of making and tinkering in formal and informal learning environments
- Investigating family engagement in and interactions around STEM-related activities
- Examining spontaneous and humanistic approaches to mathematics through other fields such as archaeology and engineering
- Utilizing self-study methodology to examine her own practices as an educator and researcher
Mental Health in Schools
Elizabeth Mellin
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
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Science Education
Thomas P. O'Brien
Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- BSCS 5E “intelligent” CIA model (Engage-Explore-Explain-Elaborate-Evaluate)
- Real-world relevant FUNomena-first, discrepant events and Science Technology-Society issues
- Cognitive, evolutionary and social psychology
- Pre-service and in-service science teacher professional development
- 360-degree, transformational K-12 educational leadership for all school stakeholders
Special Education
Loretta Mason-Williams
Director of the Community Research and Action, PhD Program; Associate Professor
CCPA PhD Program; Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
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Nicole S. Fenty
Associate Professor, Doctoral Program Coordinator
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Students with or at risk for disabilities in reading teacher education and special education
- Increased access to the general education curriculum for students with or at risk for learning disabilities
Hyejung Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Intersectionality of multi-layered vulnerabilities including dis/abilities
- Educational equity
- Students with autism and other neurodevelopmental dis/abilities
- Postsecondary transition from high school to adulthood
Tracy Lyman
Lecturer
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Trauma informed practices
- Social emotional learning
- Supporting inclusion for student with developmental disabilities
- Engagement with families
- Collaboration in early childhood settings
Candace A. Mulcahy
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Education policies that apply to youth in corrections
- Provision of appropriate education and special education services to marginalized youth
- Effective reading and mathematics instruction for youth with disabilities in public schools and for youth in corrections
Social Studies Education
Adam Laats
Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- History of American education
- Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
- Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
- History of creation/evolution debates
- Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
- Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history
TESOL
Hoe Kyeung Kim
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Teacher education and assessment
- L2 writing
- Bilingual and Multilingualism
- Korean L2 learning
- Educational technology
Beth Clark-Gareca
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Professional Staff
Rhonda Branca
Director of Lyceum
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Dina Hartung
Director of the New York State Master Teacher Program
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Haley Irvine
Online Academic Advisor and Clinical Field Coordinator
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Amy Humphrey
Liberty Partnership Director
Liberty Partnerships Program
Christina Mack
Assistant Director of Clinical Experiences
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Jo Malin
Educational Talent Search Project Director
Educational Talent Search Program
Tami V Mann
Admissions and Certification Advisor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Heidi Nevgloski
Administrative Assistant
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Notaries Public
Kateri A Reagan
Associate Director of Student Services
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
