BOUNDLESS LEARNING - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor
- Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
Alanna Bjorklund-Young is a Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Her research uses methodology from economics to study topics in education. She is especially interested in the impact of education policy on student outcomes. Alanna has written several papers that investigate the impact of teaching skills on student academic and non-academic outcomes. One of her current research projects focuses on the impact of graduation requirements on students' long-term outcomes. She previously taught first and second grades as a New York City Teaching Fellow in the South Bronx, a charter school in Brooklyn, and an international private school in Mexico City. She holds a PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
Andrea Harkins-Brown, Assistant Research Scientist, leads applied research studies and funded projects related to special education, systems change, and technology integration. She is passionate about supporting practitioners to apply evidence-based practices and innovative teaching approaches that allow all learners - including those with disabilities - to thrive in their schools and communities.
Andrea Schanbacher, Project Administrator, facilitates school improvement across a school system in Maryland, and improves outcomes for students with disabilities in Delaware. She co-developed and co-facilitated a team-based continuous improvement process to promote systems change nationally and internationally. She began her career as a special educator and served students with disabilities in both the general education and non-public settings for 15 years.
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- Assistant Professor / Deputy Director, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools
- Build Trust With Consistent Messaging
Annette C. Anderson is a native of Baltimore and a graduate of Baltimore City Public Schools, an experience that has left an indelible mark on her career interests in educational equity and adequacy. Besides her research pursuits, she has served in a variety of school-based positions, including classroom teacher, teacher leader, curriculum coordinator, and assistant principal. She served as the chief executive officer and founding principal of Widener Partnership Charter School, the first university-assisted charter school in Pennsylvania. The school quickly became known to state and local education officials as a successful model for university-public school partnerships. As Faculty Lead for the School Administration & Supervision programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, Anderson is frequently quoted in media, internet and education outlets. She was named the 2021 Educator of the Year from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and awarded the 2023 AERA Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award. Anderson holds a Ph.D. and master's degree from University of Pennsylvania, a second master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University, and a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
- Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
Ashley Berner is Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education. She served previously as the Deputy Director of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy and as an administrator at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia. Palgrave MacMillan released Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School (2017), and Harvard Education Press will publish her next book, Exposure v Indoctrination: Pluralism and American Democracy, in early 2024.
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- Senior Manager for Early Childhood Assessment Programs
Brianna Holmes, Senior Manager for Early Childhood Assessment Programs, leads strategy, programming, and operations for the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment and Early Learning Assessment projects. She provides content expertise for the professional development curriculum and trainings for early childhood teachers, providers, and administrators. She is passionate about enhancing quality in early childhood programs and serving as a voice for early childhood professionals, young children, and their families.
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- Academic Program Administrator Mind, Brain, & Teaching Program
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education
Camille Bryant is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. She teaches research methods and evaluation courses to master's and doctoral students. Her research focuses on the use of advanced methodological approaches to examine how contextual factors shape program implementation and their combined influence on student outcomes. Her most current research has focused on programs that aim to improve self-efficacy and student learning from the lens of embodied cognition. Prior to becoming a professor, she worked with refugee children as an Americorps VISTA. She also taught in the inner city as a Teach for America corps member.
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- Administrative Coordinator International Teaching and Global Leadership Program
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- Program Administrator for Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education
Cecilia Leger, Program Administrator for Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education, provides technical support for Maryland's early intervention data systems. Through her work at CTE, she helps to foster systemic change through the use of high-quality early childhood data to inform practice and policy. She's passionate about providing solutions to bridge the gap between research and everyday practice in special education services for young children and their families.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Department Chair, Counseling and Educational Studies
- Department Chair
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- Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Education
- Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education
Christopher Morphew, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education since August 2017, concentrates his research on issues of institutional diversity in higher education, including those related to state higher education policy and the ways in which colleges and universities communicate to constituent groups.
His work has appeared in many journals, including the Review of Higher Education; Research in Higher Education; The Journal of Higher Education; Educational Finance; Higher Education Policy; and Studies in Higher Education.
Morphew has held leadership positions in the Association for the Study of Higher Education and American Educational Research Association, and he has made invited and refereed presentations in more than two dozen countries. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Research Council of Norway, and Ford Foundation. His most recent book, co-edited with John Braxton, The Challenges of Independent Colleges, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2017.
Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins School of Education, he was professor and executive associate dean in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. He also has held tenured positions at the University of Georgia and University of Kansas, and served as a visiting professor and Leiv Eiriksson Scholar at the University of Oslo. He holds a Ph.D. in social sciences and education from Stanford University, as well as degrees from Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame.
Chris Morphew appointed to second term as dean of Johns Hopkins School of Education
Cynthia Milikin, Assistant Professor, is a member of the International Teaching and Global Leadership (ITGL) faculty. She is the early childhood advisor and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) advisor for ITGL.
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- Visual Designer for Online Learning
Daniel Brown, Visual Designer for Online Learning, develops graphics and interactions across projects for the Learning Design and Innovation team. He strives for information accessibility by employing user first principles for a wide range of media.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director for Emerging Technologies
Dave Peloff, Associate Director for Emerging Technologies, leads CTE's research and development work related to emerging educational technologies and oversees the teams that design and build CTE's software tools and data systems. His interests include exploring the potential impact of virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and machine learning on the future of education.
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- President & CEO / Nevins & Associates
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- Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
- Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
- NYS Commissioner
- Professor
David Steiner is Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University. In 2020, he finished serving as a member of the Maryland State Board of Education and the Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence in Education. He currently serves on the boards of Core Knowledge Foundation, and Relay Graduate School of Education. Most recently, he was appointed to the Practitioner Council at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. He previously served on the board of Urban Teachers as well. He also served as Commissioner of Education for New York State, as the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education, and as Director of Education at the National Endowment
As NYS Commissioner, Dr. Steiner took a lead role in the State's successful $700 million Race to the Top application to support the redesign of state standards, assessments, and teacher certification requirements. His insistence on including major funding for curricula in that grant led to the launch of EngageNY, the nation's most consulted on-line curriculum resource. Dr. Steiner consults regularly with the federal government, state education leaders, educational reform organizations, and universities. He has addressed audiences on both side of the Atlantic, and authored books, book chapters, and more than fifty articles. He holds degrees from Balliol College, Oxford University (B.A. and M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.
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- Associate
- Dean
- National Advisory Council
Under Dean Morphew, the School of Education has made consistent improvement in its annual financial and development outcomes. He has taken steps to increase faculty governance at the school and has worked closely with its Faculty Senate to formalize processes for faculty tenure, appointments, evaluation, and workload. Building on community-wide engagement in envisioning the school's future, he led the development of its first Strategic Vision and launched a major redesign and renovation of its home in the historic Education Building. He also created the Office of Diversity and Faculty Development and appointed the school's first chief diversity officer.
Dean Morphew has also championed Baltimore City schools and its students. He brought new leadership to Henderson-Hopkins, the Johns Hopkins partnership elementary-middle school in East Baltimore, recently recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of the city's best schools, and he has been a staunch advocate of the Vision for Baltimore program, which provides vision services to elementary and middle school students throughout the city. Building on a long tradition of being the largest producer of new teachers for Baltimore City, he has worked with City Schools leadership in developing the TeachingWell program, with the goal of producing new STEM teachers to prepare thousands of Baltimore City math and science students.
Chris Morphew appointed to second term as dean of Johns Hopkins School of Education
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- Professional Development Manager
Dionne La Touche, Professional Development Manager, leads the implementation of professional development for teachers, providers, and administrators around the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment and Early Learning Assessment. She is passionate about finding opportunities to optimize teaching and learning outcomes for early childhood professionals, young children, and their families.
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- Senior Instructional Technologist
Edward Everett, Senior Instructional Technologist, brings 10+ years of experience in learning design and LMS administration, training, and support. He enjoys exploring new and exciting technologies, producing professional development opportunities for facilitators of education, and the responsibility and creativity of working with clients to deliver innovative learning ecosystems.
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- Associate Dean of Finance and Operations
- Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Operations for the Johns Hopkins School of Education
Fernanda Pio Roda is the Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Operations for the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Pio Roda oversees the financial and operations management of the division, including finance, human resources, information technology, security, capital projects, strategic projects, and facilities management. Since joining the school in 2018, she has revamped internal financial processes, procedures, and policies as well as implemented strategic decisions to stabilize the school's operations and finances. Pio Roda began her Johns Hopkin career in 2000 at the Johns Hopkins Health System at Johns Hopkins International, working on the SAP implementation team. She has held leadership roles in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, including being named chief financial officer of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. She also has served as interim Sr. Associate Dean for Finance and Administration supporting SAIS- School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC . Pio Roda has a bachelor's degree in accounting from PUC Minas in Brazil and an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
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- Instructional Media Designer
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- Program Director of Communications
Gennarose Pope, Program Director of Communications, helps CTE put their best word forward. She brings her passion for inclusive education; her decade of experience as a disability nonprofit communications director; and her time as a journalist, professional singer, and educator to all of her work. She is honored to help create access, opportunity, and success for every learner.
Gina Cash joined the School of Education after completing a 30 year career in middle schools. She's been a science teacher, assistant principal, and principal during her career working with schools in Prince George's County, Washington D.C., and a year with NASA; but spent the bulk of her career in Howard County. She started two regional special education programs during her tenure with HCPSS. In the early 2000s, she was an early participant in a team-based classroom approach from JHU now known as Boundless Learning. She is currently a program administrator supporting CTE's work with special education practices in Delaware. She lives on Kent Island with her husband and has two grown children. Her daughter is a graphic designer living at the beach and her son is a mechanic working outside of Baltimore.
Giselle Patton, Project Administrator, is a member of the Emerging Technology team who develops and supports technology solutions for educators and students. She is a business analyst who brings end user design, software testing, help desk management, and project management skills to CTE. The positive impact that technology can have on students, families, and educators is the driving force behind her work.
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- Obstetrician Gynecologist
Isabelle Doucet, Project Administrator, manages the development and implementation of projects within the Early Childhood Comprehensive Assessment System (EC-CAS). With over 15 years of experience working as a technical project manager in the education field, Isabelle assists the CTE team with project management support for technology-focused work efforts. Isabelle has a particular interest in agile project management and change management processes. Outside of the office, Isabelle enjoys engaging in all things outdoors including long distance running, paddle boarding, and camping.
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- Professor
- Vice Dean of Academic Affairs
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- Project Administrator
- Researcher
Jeannie Chipps is a postdoctoral researcher working on the Engineering 4 Us All project. Jeannie helps with facilitating professional development and coordinating a summative student assessment within the project.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Director, Innovative Teaching and Global Leadership
Jennifer Adams, PhD, earned her master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University where she was a Spencer Foundation Research and Training Fellow. Adams has over 20 years of experience working in the field of global education as a teacher, school leader, and educational researcher in East Asia (Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong). She received the Fulbright Specialist Award for Indonesia and Israel Faculty Fellowship in 2022. She was selected to serve on the Hong Kong Research Grants Council's Collaborative Research Fund award panel 2023-2026 after serving on the Education and Social Sciences panels 2014-2019.
In prior positions, Adams taught graduate-level courses in comparative and international education, quantitative research methods, and survey data collection. Her research identifies and investigates educational opportunity, salient dimensions of children's school experiences in rural communities, and the educational impact of social, demographic, and economic shifts associated with rapid globalization and development, primarily in China. Adams' most recent research investigates how climate change shapes children's learning in diverse contexts. In one project, she explore s the short and long-term educational impact of climate-induced natural disasters in Indonesia. In other cross-national research, she focuses on the links between environmental literacy, climate change education and global citizenship identification. Her scholarly work advances our understanding of key dimensions of educational inequality, particularly in resource-constrained rural or climate-affected areas in a way that can inform educational policy and has the potential to improve disadvantaged students' life chances.
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- Academic Program Coordinator Gifted, Education Policy and Urban Education Programs
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- Member of the Development & Alumni Relations Team
- Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
Jennifer Kouo, Assistant Research Scientist, is engaged in multiple research projects that involve transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of engineering, medicine, and technology, as well as research on teacher preparation and the conducting of evidence-based practices in multiple contexts. Jennifer's areas of expertise include Universal Design for Learning, technology integration, assistive technologies, and serving students with a range of disabilities, particularly autism spectrum disorder.
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- Associate Research Professor / Deputy Director of Evaluation Research, Center for Research and Reform in Education
- Associate Research Professor and Deputy
Jennifer R. Morrison is an associate research professor and Deputy Director of Evaluation Research at the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on instructional strategies and message-design strategies in traditional and technological environments. At the Center for Research and Reform in Education, she leads mixed-methods research and evaluation projects focused on instructional design and educational technology, including district-wide technology integration initiatives and programs that affect content-area learning. She is also the recipient of a grant from the Institute for Educational Sciences to conduct a meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of educational technology on mathematics learning.
She is the recipient of a master's research scholarship from Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center, doctoral research fellowship, and masters scholarship award from the Association for Educational Communication and Technology. She has presented her research at local and national conferences, and has authored refereed journal articles. In addition, she is a reviewer for Educational Technology Research and Development and the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Previously, she served as a review editor for Frontiers in Educational Psychology and an assistant editor for the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.
Jennifer Y. Grams, Project Administrator, manages the development and implementation of projects within the Early Childhood Comprehensive Assessment System (EC-CAS). She also assists the CTE team with identifying, evaluating, and responding to new business opportunities. Jennifer has served in a number of roles throughout her career, including research and policy analyst, marketing consultant, and project manager in the public, non profit, and private sectors. She is a dedicated advocate for children and families and has a particular interest in the intersection of education and public policy.
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- Program Director
- Program Director for Learning Design and Innovation
Jinn Winn Chong, Program Director for Learning Design and Innovation, brings her passion, expertise, and experience in learning architecture and user experience design. She works with teams across CTE to design and develop learning ecosystems and online tools that help engage learners and users in their online experience.
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- Chairman, Retirement Living Television
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- Executive Director
- Curriculum Director
- Education Among U.S. Universities
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- Research Professor / Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Joshua Travis Brown, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education as well as a Research Fellow with the Center for Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance(SKOPE) at the University of Oxford. Rooted in his own first-gen, working-class heritage, his work aims to bring attention to the structural nature of policy challenges to help institutions around the globe better educate marginalized students. Brown'scurrent book project examines how economic policies have incentivized colleges and universities with limited resources to pursue margins in new markets at the expense of their educational missions.
The direct social impact of his work ranges from the development of new measures to assess student mental health to disentangling the complexity of accountability policies to raising awareness of racial inequalities across learning platforms. Brown's work has been supported by competitive grants from the National Science Foundation, British Academy, Buckner W. Clay Endowment, and ACUHO-I and published in a variety of academic outlets, including American Journal of Education, Journal of American College Health, and Journal of College Student Development.
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- Academic Program Administrator Special Education Programs
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- Associate
- Deputy Director
- Research Scientist
K. Lynne Mainzer, Deputy Director of CTE and Associate Research Scientist at the School of Education (SOE), has provided leadership as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and director for many of the CTE's largest grant-funded projects, especially those offering technical assistance and online resources to educators at the state, district, and school levels. As the primary architect of three premier CTE programs - Dynamic Impact, Boundless Learning for Inclusion, and Boundless Learning Co-Teaching - she leads their ongoing development, implementation, and evaluation nationally and internationally. Her specific research interest focuses on how to advance group work and effective decision making through high-performance teaming. She has extensive online and face-to-face teaching experience; has taught graduate courses for SOE related to effective leadership, collaborative learning, special education, advanced instructional strategies, and technology integration; and has roots as a special education teacher in Maryland.
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- Co - Director, Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education
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- Instructional Technologist
- Senior Instructional Technologist
Kimberly Lohr, Sr. Instructional Technologist, works with the Center for Technology in Education's Comprehensive Assessment Team to design effective, creative, and high-quality training and support materials for state partners, data managers, and educators. She is passionate about designing instruction and delivering training solutions that help educators meet the needs of all learners in the classroom.
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- Program Director
- Program Director for Business Systems and Technology Solutions
Kristen Thompson, Program Director for Business Systems and Technology Solutions, leads a technical development team responsible for building, maintaining, and continuously improving large-scale data systems for educational use, with a focus on comprehensive early childhood assessments. Kristen is a passionate problem solver and SCRUM master. She takes a creative, big picture approach to all of CTE's technological projects by parsing out stakeholders' complex needs and building innovative and evolutionary solutions to meet them. Kristen has brought her innate ability to transform CTE's vision of access, opportunity, and success for every learner into reality for over 17 years.
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- Academic Program Coordinator
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- Co - Founder / Trustee / Alabaster Fund
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- Academic Program Coordinator Digital Age Learning and Educational Technology and Educational Studies Programs
- Academic Program Coordinator School Administration and Supervision, Leadership Independent Schools and MEd Teaching Professionals Programs
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- Director
- Associate Research Professor
- Associate Research Professor / Center Director, Center for Technology in Education
- Assume the Role of Director at the Center for Technology in Education
- Director of the Center for Technology
Linda Carling is the Director of the Center for Technology in Education at the School of Education and leads a team of experts focusing on transforming teaching and learning with technology. She has nearly two decades of research and experience providing individuals with accessible, meaningful, and engaging learning opportunities, both in-person and virtually.
Linda Z. Carling to Assume the Role of Director at the Center for Technology in Education
Linda Carling is the Director of the Center for Technology in Education in the School of Education and leads a team of experts focusing on transforming teaching and learning with technology. She has nearly two decades of research and experience providing individuals with accessible, meaningful, and engaging learning opportunities, both in-person and virtually.
In alignment with CTE's vision to change lives through knowledge that matters, Linda Carling builds and implements large-scale learning solutions that combine current pedagogical practices and online tools to engage and transform leaders and educators. The scope of her work involves designing and implementing technology-supported professional development for state, district, and school leaders to understand and take action around education data; instructing early childhood teachers and special educators to administer and use data from comprehensive early childhood assessments; and building effective partnerships with teachers and families.
She has provided leadership as a principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and director for many of the center's grant-funded projects since 2002. Before she helped the School of Education build their first online program in 2001, she was a dedicated classroom teacher and K-12 virtual learning curriculum developer.
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- Member of the Development & Alumni Relations Team
- Assistant Director of Constituent Engagement
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- Vice President of Medical Innovations
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- Associate Director of Business Development
Lisa Reed, Associate Director of Business Development, oversees CTE's fiscal responsibilities, including budgeting, resource allocation, procurement, and compliance. Her efficient, goal-driven, and intentional approach aligns with her passion for fitness, family, and a healthy lifestyle; and she is honored to work with such passionate, driven people.
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- Associate Professor ( Research ) Co - Director, Center for Social Organization of Schools / Director of Research, Baltimore Education Research Consortium
- Associate Professor in the School of Education
Marcia Davis is an associate professor in the School of Education and has been a researcher at the Center for Social Organization of Schools since 2006. She currently teaches courses in mixed methods and evaluation in the Doctor of Education degree program and advises in the PhD degree program. Marcia has a master's degree in Educational Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation and a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology. She has conducted research on a range of topics that include supporting struggling adolescent readers, measurement of adolescent reading motivation, and the use of early warning indicators and systems for dropout prevention. She has served as the lead evaluator or co-evaluator on projects through the United Way of Central Maryland, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Her publications appear in the Journal of Research in Reading, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, Literacy Research and Instruction, and The Journal of Educational Research.
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- Academic Program Administrator Education in the Health Professions Programs
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- Assistant Clinical Professor
Mark Trexler, Assistant Clinical Professor, supervises and maintains a comprehensive extended learning model that provides students with exposure to various external learning experiences, equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to become effective global education leaders as Extended Learning Coordinator for the International Teaching and Global Leadership (ITGL) program. He also serves as the Faculty Lead Teacher for two ITGL graduate courses where he imparts his expertise in evidence-based best practices in teaching and learning.
He is also a faculty adjunct in the special education program, teaching two graduate-level courses focusing on evidence-based best practices in secondary transition and individual education planning for special education, helping educators create inclusive learning environments that promote student success. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to teaching and learning, supporting CTE projects that promote evidence-based best practices in education.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Associate Dean of Research
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- Director of Marketing and Communications
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- Associate Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Innovative Teaching
- Associate Professor / Chair, Department of Innovative Teaching and Leadership
- Department Chair
Mary Ellen Beaty-O'Ferrall is an associate clinical professor and chair of the Department of Innovative Teaching and Leadership, Johns Hopkins School of Education. Her teaching and research focuses on literacy, urban school partnerships, and service learning.
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- Senior Administrative Coordinator
Mary Lemon, Senior Administrative Coordinator, supports the business and technical efforts of CTE faculty and staff around program activities, grant submissions, written communications, and online support operations. She brings over 20 years of experience working for JHU and was instrumental in the development of the first university-wide employee orientation. Mary hails from Baltimore City - home of the best steamed blue crabs on the east coast - and in her free time, she enjoys music, cooking, and entertaining friends and family.
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- Senior Instructional Designer
Matt Pierce, Senior Instructional Designer, leads the development of learning architecture and online tools that help make education accessible for every learner. He brings 12 years of instructional design experience and his love of film, media, and all things technology to his work. He is also a volunteer for several nonprofits in the area, which aligns well with his passion to help kids and families both in his community and beyond.
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- Vice President of International Business Development / Phillips Food, Inc.
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- Senior Grants and Contracts Analyst
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- Program Administrator
- Program Administrator for Leadership and Educational Impact
Melanie J. Upright, Program Administrator for Leadership and Educational Impact, co-directs development, training, implementation, and evaluation of Dynamic Impact - the pioneering continuous improvement approach that builds equitable conditions to advance teaching performance and student achievement among all students. With two decades of educational experience, Melanie has led teams at the school, district, and state levels to support data-informed decision making and to implement evidence-based inclusive initiatives, including the JHU Boundless Learning program.
Furthermore, as a district level coordinator, Melanie has supervised speech-language pathologists serving birth - 21; coached administrators, general education and special education teachers and instructional assistants; and led systems change initiatives in classroom management - efforts which helped to narrow the achievement gap in elementary mathematics, early literacy development, and improved access to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Melanie believes in the potential of all students and the magic of the classroom.
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- Director, Investigative Service ( Retired )
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- Academic Program Coordinator Teach for America Program
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- Director, Global Distribution Digital Strategy
Nathaniel Brown is a Lecturer of clinical mental health counseling and clinical director in the counseling program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. He earned his doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision with a focus in counseling and student personnel services from the University of Georgia and his master's degree in clinical social work from Clark Atlanta University. He teaches graduate students in the Counseling master's degree program, with a focus on clinical mental health counseling. Brown is a member of ACA, ACES, SACES, and ACCA. His research interests include college mental health counseling of students who experienced foster care, counseling theoretical orientation development, HIV/AIDS support groups, foster care postsecondary education transition, retention, and completion. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Professional Mental Health Counseling in the Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling. His college mental health counseling career began in 2007 as a student affairs counselor.
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- Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development
- Professor / Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development
Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University, where he has faculty appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Education as Executive Director of the Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, and in the Department of Sociology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He also directs the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM), a National Science Foundation data science training institute.
He previously served as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, and chaired the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland. His work on the interrelated topics of neighborhoods, social policy, and race have been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, William T. Grant Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. A transdisciplinary scholar, his work appears in the leading journals of 11 scientific disciplines and fields. Johnson's work and ideas about social change have been featured in prominent media outlets, including the Oprah Magazine, Good Morning America, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, The Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, Teen Vogue, The Associated Press, Vox, The New Yorker, The New York Times, NBC News, The Chicago Tribune, SiriusXM, and a variety of international and local news outlets.
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- Associate Director of Development
- Member of the Development & Alumni Relations Team
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
Rachel Hur, Associate Research Scientist, leads the administrative and research data analyses focusing on Maryland's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS), early childhood education (ECE) programs, and ECE workforce. She contributes to research design, data collection, and analyses. She values her work as it informs policy and programs in a way that helps improve education for young children.
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- Academic Program Coordinator Doctor of Education Program
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
Rachel Hur, Associate Research Scientist, leads the administrative and research data analyses focusing on Maryland's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS), early childhood education (ECE) programs, and ECE workforce. She contributes to research design, data collection, and analyses. She values her work as it informs policy and programs in a way that helps improve education for young children.
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- Academic Program Administrator Doctor of Philosophy in Education Program
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- Professor / Co - Director, Center for Social Organization of Schools
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- Executive Director, Educators Fellowship / Chief Renovation Officer, School Growth
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- Member of the Development & Alumni Relations Team
- Director of Constituent Engagement
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- National Medical Director
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- Co - Founder, President, and CEO / yet Analytics Inc.
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- Associate Professor / Co - Director, Center for Social Organization of Schools / Co - Director, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
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- Professor / Director, Center for Research and Reform in Education
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- Program Director for Professional Learning Development and Implementation
Sunnie Kim, Program Director for Professional Learning Development and Implementation, leads the development and implementation of professional learning for teachers and administrators across multiple states. She brings over 15 years of experience helping universities and non-profit organizations use online learning as a way to increase impact and reach to her work. An avid problem solver, she innovates and improves learning experiences; and as a parent of a child with a disability, she feels especially connected to CTE's mission to create access, opportunity, and success for every learner.
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Member of the Development & Alumni Relations Team
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- Professional Development Coordinator
Tammy Devlin, Professional Development Coordinator, provides professional development to teachers across the nation around two innovative statewide assessment systems - the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment and the Early Learning Assessment - and the inclusive, evidence-based practice Boundless Learning approach. She has a deep commitment to supporting students with disabilities in general education, and trains teachers to use team-directed learning strategies and Universal Design for Learning in order to promote achievement among all students, including those with disabilities. She is thrilled to work with so many colleagues who share the vision of inclusive education.
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services
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- Program Quality Specialist
Teresa O'Connor, Program Quality Specialist, provides innovative ways to promote high quality teaching and learning in order to enhance opportunities for all students. She brings her experience as an educator, mentor teacher, curriculum developer, administrator, trainer, and designer of an online Response to Intervention tool to her work coordinating an online IEP system that helps educators develop a federally compliant IEP, and provides a mechanism for analyzing data to help students with disabilities make progress in the general education curriculum.
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- Chief of Staff / American Diabetes Association
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
Tonya Satchell, Assistant Research Scientist, focuses on research related to Quality Rating and Improvement Systems and equitable assessment strategies. Her research interest includes early childhood systems and interventions that support young children from diverse backgrounds, especially those who have been marginalized.
Vy Phung, Research Assistant, works on various early childhood research projects that focus on improving the quality of education, collaboration between early childhood providers and families, and student outcomes through literature reviews, online surveys, focus groups, and data reports. She is passionate about early childhood research and wants to continue learning more about qualitative and quantitative software for mixed methods research.
William Blandford, Software Engineer, carries the torch for birth to 21 special education data systems. Bill brings his passion for scientific problem solving to all of his work. He is grateful to have a hand in designing and deploying systems that drive specially designed instruction and data based decision making that improve outcomes for all students.