Professional administrators

• Mary E. Lee-Nichols
  Interim Coordinator clinical experiences, elementary licensure program
• Amy Jo Lundell
  Coordinator secondary education field experiences
• Agnes Mrutu Malika
  Administrative director

Technology support

• Matti Koivula
  IT (Instructional Technology) Fellow
• Donovan Mollner
  Information Technology Supervisor

Support staff

• Jessie Eastman
  Executive operations/student services specialist: Graduate studies assistant
• Vicki Griffin
  Executive office and administrative specialist
• Di Nguyen
  Principal office and administrative specialist:
  Faculty support
• Roxanne Weymouth
  Executive office and administrative specialist:
  Department chair support
• Cathy Zemke
  Executive office and administrative specialist:
  Faculty support

Patricia Avery* — social studies education

Political tolerance, civic identity/education, teacher education

Richard Beach* — literacy education

Student response to multicultural literature and media, composition, inquiry-based approach to teaching English, digital literacies

James Bequette* — art education

Culturally relevant arts education taught from a critical perspective, art teacher licensure and professional development, and the role arts education plays in alternative, independent, and charter schools

Martha Bigelow* — second languages and cultures education

Second language acquisition, schooling experiences of adolescent immigrant youth, preservice language teacher education, multicultural education

Katherine Byrn — literacy education, elementary education

Teaching reading and language arts in the elementary classroom

Jennifer Cherry — learning technologies

Vichet Chhuon — culture and teaching

Multicultural education, achievement motivation, adolescent development, and Asian American education

Faith Clover* — art education, elementary education

Curriculum development and the aesthetic development of children and adults with a special emphasis on diverse populations

Betty Cooke — family, youth, and community

Parent education

Lesa Covington Clarkson* — math education

Exploration of mathematics curriculum and instruction in urban classrooms, examination of best practices that engage all learners in mathematics

Kathleen Cramer* — math education, elementary education

Teaching and learning of rational numbers for children in grades 4-8, fraction learning in 4th & 5th graders, teacher preparation and development

Peggy DeLapp — elementary education, literacy education

Elementary education, elementary reading and language arts, and literacy policy

Deborah Dillon* — literacy education

Literacy practices of teachers and learners in K-12 schools, the role of motivation in engaged reading, literacy leadership and school reform, qualitative research methodologies

Aaron Doering* — learning technologies, elementary education

Development of effective distance learning and adventure learning environments, technology integration in K-12 settings

Lynn Englund — family, youth, and community

Family education, democratic education, learning circles, community and learning

Fred Finley* — science education

Exploring students’ conceptions of the earth systems and human interaction with the earth, civic engagement studies in Thailand and the U.S.

Lee Galda* — literacy education

K-12 children's and adolescent literature, child and adolescent response to literature, and exploration of literacy learning in literature-based classrooms

Yvonne S. Gentzler* — family, youth, and community

Professional development of students within family and consumer sciences (FCS) education; FCS leadership, mentoring, and professional passion.

Lori A. Helman* — literacy education, elementary education

Literacy development in the elementary grades; effective instructional practices with English learners; teacher development and leadership; assessment and instruction to support struggling readers K-6

Benjamin M. Jacobs* — social studies education

Social studies education, history of education, curriculum studies, teacher education, Jewish education

Mary Jacobson  — literacy education, coordinator of K-12 reading licensure program

Practicum experience in reading teacher preparation programs

Roger Johnson* — science education, elementary education

Science teaching in elementary contexts, structuring cooperation in classrooms and schools, conflict resolution and controversy

Kendall King* — Second languages and cultures education

Second language learning and bilingualism; transmigratory experiences of children and immigrant education; language ideology and language policy

Mary E. Lee-Nichols — elementary education

Interim Coordinator of clinical experiences for elementary licensure programs

Timothy J. Lensmire* — culture and teaching, literacy education

Exploring the teaching and learning of writing as a form of democratic living, and how white people learn to be white in our white supremacist society

Cynthia Lewis* — literacy education
director of graduate studies

Critical literacy in urban high schools, classroom discourse, adolescent literacy and identity, critical discourse analysis, classroom ethnography

Amy Jo Lundell — family, youth, and community

Family education

J. B. Mayo* — social studies education

Teacher education, GLBT studies, multicultural education, global education, teaching of history, social justice

Charles D. Miller* — learning technologies

Effects of emotional design on the learner experience

Tamara Moore* — math education

Exploration of mathematical modeling, problem-solving, and teamwork in mathematics/engineering education

Bic Ngo* — culture and teaching

Exploration of understandings and influences of “culture” and “difference” on immigrant students' education, and the implications for how we theorize immigrant identity, culturally relevant pedagogy, and anti-oppressive education

David O'Brien* — literacy education

Adolescent literacy, construction of supportive programs for adolescents and struggling adolescent readers using literacy across the curriculum

Jane Plihal* — family, youth, and community

Family education, teacher education, research methodology

Thomas Post* — math education

Assessing the impact of standards-based middle grades and secondary high school curricula on standardized assessment instruments

Susan Ranney — second languages and cultures education

language through content, varieties of English, academic English for ESL students

Rebecca Rapport — literacy education, elementary education

Children’s literature and literacy instruction and learning in elementary grades

Gillian Roehrig* — science education

Exploring the impact of different mentoring and induction programs on the development of beginning secondary science teachers

Mistilina Sato* — culture and teaching

Teachers’ processes of developing their practices, leadership, personal and professional identities, and collegial relationships; practical philosophy; assessment for learning integrated in instructional practices

Cassandra Scharber* — learning technologies

Literacy, power, and technology and the possibilities technology offers in aiding the transformation of teaching and learning

Jerome (Jerry) Stein* — family, youth, and community

Democratic learning communities; community building; history and philosophy of youth work; philosophy and politics of community-based learning; ecologies of education (non school-based learning); cultures of learning.

Thom Swiss* — culture and teaching

Interdisciplinarity in research and teaching, popular culture, digital media, creative writing

Barbara Taylor* — literacy education, elementary education

School-wide reading improvement in the elementary grades, with a focus on schools with diverse populations; effective teachers of reading, K-6; interventions for struggling readers, K-4

Diane J. Tedick* — second languages and cultures education

Content-based language instruction, language teacher education and development, exploring effective teaching practices in language immersion classrooms, foreign language education

Ruth G. Thomas* — family, youth, and community
department chair

Cognitive theory-based instructional design, curriculum and program development, family and parent education

Bhaskar Upadhyay* — science education, elementary education

Exploring issues of access, ethnicity, and race that surround science education in our urban schools, examining how science teaching and learning can be improved

Constance Walker* — second languages and cultures education

Language minority students and the social context of achievement; fostering collaboration within schools to build on the strengths and address the needs of bilingual learners

Joyce A. Walker* — family, youth, and community

Nonformal education in community settings, youth programs and youth development leadership

Susan K. Walker* — family, youth, and community

Parent education; parenting and early education; use of technology in teaching and learning

Terrence Wyberg* — math education

Teacher education and development, exploring how teachers’ content knowledge is related to their teaching approaches

Lisa Albrecht* — School of Social Work

Social justice, anti-racist, multicultural, Freirean and feminist education

Mary Trettin* — Dean’s Office

Teacher preparation, educator development, organizational development, teacher education policy

Tara Fortune* — Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)

Role of language use and social interaction in immersion classrooms, research-based practices for struggling learners in immersion schools

Patricia James* — Dept. of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning artistic creativity, learning communities, multiculturalism

Frances Lawrenz* — Dept. of Educational Psychology

Science and mathematics program evaluation, assessment instrument development, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, mixed methods

Judith Lambrecht* — Dept. of Work and Human Resource Education

Using applications software to support teaching, business and marketing teacher education, work-based learning

Michael Michlin* — Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI)

English education, reading, literacy, language and cognition, evaluation research, quantitative research methodologies

S. Jay Samuels* — Dept. of Educational Psychology

Reading comprehension; valid measurement of fluency in reading; application of knowledge of successful dyslexics to all learners

Debra Stevens Peterson* —
Minnesota Center for Reading Research

Emergent literacy, reading difficulties, school-wide reading reform, professional development, qualitative research methodologies

Elaine Tarone* — Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)

Variationist research in second language acquisition; research on learner language development

Ross Velure Roholt* — School of Social Work

Community-based models for youth participation and youth development; youthwork practices to enhance community-based models of youth participation and youth development.