Professional administrators

• Katherine Byrn
  Coordinator clinical experiences, elementary licensure program
• Amy Jo Lundell
  Coordinator secondary education field experiences

Technology support

• Ellyn St. Louis
  IT (Instructional Technology) Fellow
• Daniel Ferrara
  Technical coordinator

Website and communications

• Kristin Van Dorn
  Website and electronic communications coordinator

Support staff

• Jessie Eastman
  Executive operations/student services specialist
  Graduate studies assistant
• Vicki Griffin
  Executive office and administrative specialist
• Kathryn Louis
  Assistant to the Chair
• Caitlin Tupa
  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

Department Chair

• Nina Asher* — Professor

Art Education

• James Bequette* — Assistant Professor
• Faith Clover* — Lecturer

Culture and Teaching

• Timothy Lensmire* — Associate Professor
• Bic Ngo* — Associate Professor
• Mistilina Sato* — Associate Professor
• Thom Swiss* — Professor
• Vichet Chhuon* — Assistant Professor

Elementary Education

• Celeste Berken—  Teaching Specialist
• Katherine Byrn — Senior Teaching Specialist
• Kathleen Cramer* — Associate Professor
• Peggy DeLapp — Senior Lecturer
• Lori Helman* — Coordinator, Associate Professor
• Roger Johnson* — Professor
• Rebecca Rapport — Lecturer
• Bhaskar Upadhyay* — Associate Professor
• Terrence Wyberg* — Senior Lecturer

Family, Youth, and Community

• Lynn Englund — Lecturer, Associate Chair
• Yvonne Gentzler* — Associate Professor
• Amy Lundell — Teaching Specialist
• Ruth Thomas* — Professor

Learning Technologies

• Jennifer Cherry — Program Coordinator/Teaching Specialist
• Aaron Doering* — Associate Professor
• Joel Donna* — Lecturer
• Charles Miller* — Assistant Professor
• Angelica Pazurek — Teaching Specialist
• Cassandra Scharber* — Assistant Professor

Literacy Education

• Deborah Dillon* — Professor
• Lee Galda* — Professor
• Lori Helman* — Associate Professor
• Mary Jacobson — Lecturer
• Cynthia Lewis* — Professor
• David O'Brien* — Professor
• Rebecca Rapport — Lecturer
• Barbara Taylor* — Professor

Math Education

• Lesa Clarkson* — Assistant Professor
• Kathleen Cramer* — Associate Professor
• Tamara Moore* — Assistant Professor
• Thomas Post* — Professor
• Terrence Wyberg* — Senior Lecturer

Science Education

• Barbara Billington —  Teaching Specialist
• Fred Finley* — Associate Professor
• Roger Johnson* — Professor
• Gillian Roehrig* — Associate Professor
• Bhaskar Upadhyay* — Associate Professor

Second Languages and Cultures

• Martha Bigelow* — Associate Professor
• Kendall King* — Associate Professor
• Susan Ranney — Senior Lecturer
• Diane Tedick* — Associate Professor
• Constance Walker* — Associate Professor

Social Studies Education

• Patricia Avery* — Professor
• J.B. Mayo, Jr* — Assistant Professor

Lisa Albrecht* — School of Social Work

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

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

Frances Lawrenz* — Dept. of Educational Psychology

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

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

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

Debra Stevens Peterson* —
Minnesota Center for Reading Research

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

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.

S. Jay Samuels* — Dept. of Educational Psychology

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

Jerome Stein* — School of Social Work

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

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

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

Susan Walker* — Family Social Science

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