Childhood Education

Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Qualitative research methodology, race and social justice
- School reform initiatives including the charter movement
Community Schools
Naorah Rimkunas
Assistant Professor; Director, UACS Regional Training Center
Research Interests
Early Childhood Education

Elizabeth M. Anderson
Associate Professor
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
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.

Pamela A. Sandoval
Bartle Professor
Research Interests
- Program evaluation using both quantitative and empirical qualitative methods
Education Minor

David Archer
Lecturer, Undergraduate Minor Coordinator
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
English Education

Matthew L. McConn
TLEL Department Chair, Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
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
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
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
Research Interests
- The role of school principals in K-12 literacy learning
Mathematics Education

Amber Simpson
Associate Professor
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
Research Interests
Science Education

Thomas P. O'Brien
Professor
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
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Critical quantitative research
- Issues related to the teacher supply demand and preparation of well-prepared teachers
- Equitable education

Nicole S. Fenty
Associate Professor, Doctoral Program Coordinator
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
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
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
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
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

S. G. Grant
Bartle Professor
Research Interests
- Social studies teaching and learning curriculum and assessment
- New national standards for social studies
- Curriculum and instructional model that advances inquiry-based teaching practice
TESOL

Hoe Kyeung Kim
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Research Interests
- Teacher education and assessment
- L2 writing
- Bilingual and Multilingualism
- Korean L2 learning
- Educational technology

Beth Clark-Gareca
Associate Professor
Professional Staff

Rhonda Branca
Director of Lyceum

Andrea N. Decker
Sr. Dir. of Academic Affairs and Clinical Partnerships

Dina Hartung
Director of the New York State Master Teacher Program

Amy Humphrey
Liberty Partnership Director

Christina Mack
Assistant Director of Clinical Experiences

Jo Malin
Educational Talent Search Project Director

Tami V Mann
Admissions and Certification Advisor

Heidi Nevgloski
Administrative Assistant;
