LONGVIEW FOUNDATION - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Program Committee
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- Associate Professor of Reading Education in the Cato College
Adriana Laza Medina is an associate professor of Reading Education in the Cato College of Education's Reading and Elementary Education Department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University. She has her master's degree in Reading Education from Florida International University and her doctorate in Reading from University of Miami. Dr. Medina teaches courses in content area literacy, comprehension, reading assessment and intervention, and teaching reading to English language learners. She serves as Chair of her College's Internationalization Committee and as secretary for the University's Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society.
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- Fellow
- Associate Professor of Education at the College of Wooster
Alison Schmidt (Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Education at the College of Wooster and specializes in elementary and early childhood education. Her Mentor, Mary Curran, is Associate Dean of Local-Global Partnerships and Coordinator of Language Education Programs at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The two have been working on revising Schmidt's Seminar on Preparing Youth to Engage in the World and incorporating global learning objectives through an Autobiography of an Intercultural Encounter assignment.
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- Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education
Averil McClelland is Faculty Emerita and Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education in the College of Education at Kent State University. She received her undergraduate degree in sociology with honors from Hiram College and her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in cultural foundations from Kent State University. The author of several articles on gender and multicultural issues in education, she is author of a sourcebook, The Education of Women in the United States, and a Member Center Director with the National Council for Research on Women.
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- Associate Professor of Literacy, Culture and Language
Beth Lewis Samuelson is Associate Professor of Literacy, Culture and Language Education at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Education where she teaches classes in literacy theory and in the English-as-a-second language and World Languages teacher education programs. She is also a member of the graduate faculty and has supervised doctoral students since 2008. Her research has focused on language policy in Rwanda and community engagement and international service learning. In her research work, she has done research multilingually using Chinese, French and Kinyarwanda, and she has advised doctoral students in using multilingual research techniques. She has earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Southern California, and the University of California-Berkeley. As part of her Fellowship, Beth will be revising and teaching L239/L539: Language & Learning: Foundations for Teachers. For more information on current projects, visit https://samuelsonbeth.wixsite.com/home.Beth Beth is being mentored by Mary Curran, Director of Local Global Partnerships and Coordinator of the Language Education Programs at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey.
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- Assistant Professor of Education at Albion College
Betty Okwako Riekkola is an Assistant Professor of Education at Albion College. She holds a Doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education with a concentration in Comparative and International Education from Michigan State University. While pursuing her Doctorate, she also completed a specialization in Gender, Justice and Environmental Change. Betty also holds a Masters in International Development from Western Michigan University. Betty was a high school teacher in Kenya for a number of years before immigrating to the United States to pursue graduate work. She has worked extensively with pre-service teachers and taught a variety of teacher education courses. Her research interests focus on the ways in which immigrant children from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds experience school once they relocate to the U.S. Other research interests include pre-service teacher education, social foundations of education and global citizenship education. The course that she plans to revise is EDUC 247: Social Studies in Elementary Schools. She teaches this course each spring and it is a requirement for all pre-service teachers completing Elementary Education Certification at Albion College. Betty is being mentored by Erik Byker, Associate Professor, Social Studies Education, at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
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- Associate Professor of Teacher Education
Chang Pu is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education (ESOL) and the ESOL Endorsement Program coordinator at Berry College. She received her Phd in Culture, Literacy, and Language from the University of Texas, San Antonio. At Berry College, Chang teaches ESOL endorsement and TEFL courses, and Multicultural Education at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Chang's research interests include English as a second language education, bilingual education, heritage language education, and teacher education. She also collaborates with international schools and English immersion schools in China, providing preservice teachers teaching abroad internship opportunities and helping preservice teachers develop intercultural competence.
Cheryl Ellerbrock is an Associate Professor Education at the University of South Florida. She earned her PhD in Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher Education at the University of South Florida. At USF she teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in middle level and general secondary education. Dr. Ellerbrock co-coordinates both the residency-based middle school teacher preparation program and the Ph.D. program in Teacher Education at USF. Dr. Ellerbrock has authored over 40 publications that center on ways to promote responsive school experiences for young adolescent learners. Dr. Ellerbrock has won numerous awards for her teaching excellence, including the Margaret Burlington Tritle Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, the USF College of Education Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award in 2022, USF Student Success Award for Academic Excellence in 2020, and USF's Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year award in 2011. She currently serves as Immediate Past Chair for AERA's Middle Level Education Research Group, member of the Association for Middle Level Education's Research Advisory Committee, Southern Regional Director for the North American Professors of Middle Level Education, and the Secretary and Collegiate Representative for the Florida League of Middle Schools. The course she plans to revise in Spring 2023 is ESE 4322 Classroom Management for a Diverse School & Society.
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- Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development
Chia-Jung (Ruby) Yeh, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Performance at East Carolina University (ECU). Earlier she worked as a preschool and Kindergarten teacher, language assessment evaluator, and researcher before pursuing her doctoral degree. She holds a Ph.D. in Child Development and Early Education from Texas Woman's University. Dr. Yeh teaches early childhood curriculum courses including infant to Kindergarten in the areas of child development, early math, science, and social studies. Earlier she received an award for working on an international Virtual Exchange Project with four other international partners from three institutions in two countries to make internationalization accessible for students enrolled in her Global Perspectives in Early Care and Education course. Her research interests include creative teaching strategies of mathematics, science education, early childhood education, globalization, and multicultural education. She will be modifying the course HDFS 3321 Infant and Toddler Curriculum [Licensure area: Birth-Kindergarten (B-K)] during spring 2022. It is one of the foundation courses for other BK methods and curriculum courses in her campus. Mary McMullen, Indiana University Bloomington, serves as Ruby's mentor.
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- Assistant Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of Education
Christelle Palpacuer-Lee is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is an applied linguist and a world language/ EFL educator. She taught French in France, England, India and in the US at different levels and in various institutions before joining the Language Education program at the Graduate School of Education. She is the former director of the French Resource Center, a joint initiative between Rutgers and the French Embassy in New York City. Dr. Palpacuer Lee is committed to equity and social justice in education, and to prepare classroom teachers to be effective educators, critical thinkers, and life-long learners.
Christina Noel is an Associate Professor of special education at Western Kentucky University. In 2015, she earned her Ph.D. in Special Education from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Noel teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses for preservice teachers, including an introduction to special education course and a behavior and classroom management course
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- Assistant Professor of Education at Marist College
Christina Wright Fields is an Assistant Professor of Education at Marist College. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration with a concentration in academic success of historically marginalized populations from Bowling Green State University. As a diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) educator and researcher, Dr. Fields broadly explores the issues of race, gender, and equity in education and administrative practices. Additionally, through use of critical qualitative methodologies, she centers the experiences of Black educators, administrators, and students in both K-12 and postsecondary education. Dr. Fields teaches coursework in foundations of education and social and cultural foundations of education. The course she plans to modify and teach during Spring 2023 is EDUC 101 Foundations of Education; this course is a required course for pre-service teachers at Marist College.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Program Committee
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- Fellow
- Associate Professor of Literacy
Delane Bender-Slack (Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Literacy and the Reading/TESOL Program Director at Xavier University's School of Education where she works in many arenas as a teacher educator. Through the Fellows Program, she has been partnered with Kathy Short (Mentor) who is a Professor at the University of Arizona in their Language, Reading, and Culture program. Together, they have been working on reworking Bender-Slack's Content Area Literacy course to address global competencies through Reflections and a Virtual Collaborative Photo Essay assignments with Peruvian teacher candidates.
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- Fellow
- Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Elizabeth Crawford (Fellow) is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the College of Education who specializes in elementary-level global education. Her Mentor, Kenneth Cushner, is an Emeritus Professor of International and Intercultural Teacher Education at Kent State University. Together they have been working on Crawford's course in Research-Based Instructional Design and Assessment which incorporates food systems and makes use of The Global Goals Food Project: Every Plate Tells a Story materials.
Elizabeth Kenyon is an assistant professor of social studies education at Kent State University. Dr. Kenyon graduated from Michigan State University with a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education. She currently teaches in the early childhood, middle childhood and graduate program at Kent State. Her interests include critical whiteness studies, democratic citizenship education and global citizenship education. The initial licensure course she will be working on for this program is ECED 30144 Integrated Curriculum in Social Studies Grades K-3 in the fall 2020 (two sections) or ECED 40301 Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary Years in spring 2021 (two sections as well, course changes due to licensure band change). This course is the primary methods course in elementary social studies instruction for the program. In the past, this course has included a global children's literature read aloud that students conduct in the field as well as a day devoted to global citizenship education. Elizabeth's hope is to reconfigure the course into an inquiry into immigration both globally and in the United States through the lenses of the social studies disciplines. Students would take what they learn in this inquiry and think of ways of engaging young learners (K-3 or K-5) with this topic. Elizabeth is being mentored by Samara Madrid Akpovo, Associate Professor and Director of the Intercultural and Classroom Culture Research Lab at the University of Tennessee.
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- Fellow
- Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina
Erik Byker (Fellow) is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Department of Reading and Elementary Education. Together with James Shiveley (Mentor), who is the Condit Endowed Professor and the Director of International Programs for the College of Education, Health and Society at Miami University, Byker has been working on revamping his course in elementary social studies methods titled Social Studies Methods: Developing Globally Competent Citizens. Redesign has been focused on Big Idea Digital narratives, Global Competency Digital Library, and Global Module assignments.
Erika Dotson (Fellow) is an Associate Professor of French and Education at Clayton State University and serves as the Coordinator of the ESOL Endorsement Program and the Program Director of the Maymester in France Study Abroad Program. She has been working together with Jocelyn Glazier (Mentor) who is an Associate Professor and Chair of Professional Leadership and Practice at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The two have been working on Dotson's course, Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education.
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- Fellow
- Associate Professor at Radford University 's School of Teacher Education
Glenna Gustafson (Fellow) is an Associate Professor at Radford University's School of Teacher Education and Leadership who currently supervises pre-service elementary education teacher candidates. Together with Martha Lash (Mentor), who is an Associate Professor at Kent State University, Gustafson has been working on revising her course in Teaching and Learning Elementary Mathematics to incorporate global children's literature in building global competencies.
Grace Kang has taught at the K-6 grade levels for ten years. Grace received her Ph.D. in Language and Literacy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kang is an associate professor of Elementary Literacy at Illinois State University. Grace teaches various literacy methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and her research explores culturally sustaining and responsive pedagogies, expanding definitions of literacy, and social justice-oriented teacher education, specifically in writing. She will redesign Elementary Issues & Practices in Fall 2022 which focuses on elementary issues and practices that review assets-based pedagogies, multiple teaching and learning strategies and techniques, and rapport and relationship building. It is required for Elementary Education licensure.
Jessamay T. Pesek earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and M.A. in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota. She is a Minnesota licensed secondary social studies teacher who has worked in K-12 schools in Budapest, Hungary and Minnesota. Currently, she is associate professor of professional education and serves as program coordinator for the Professional Education Distance Learning (PEDL) programs at Bemidji State University in Northern Minnesota. At Bemidji, Jessamay teaches undergraduate and graduate courses to preservice teachers in social studies education, education foundations, and multicultural education. Her research focuses on global citizenship education, learning technologies, social studies education, and inclusive classroom practices in K-12 and higher education. The course she will revise is a course for preservice teachers that will be taught spring 2023 titled Elementary Social Studies Methods.
The goal of the GTE Fellows Program is to provide support for select U.S. teacher educators to design Global Learning Classrooms for their teacher candidates and to contribute to a broader network of teacher educators interested in this topic.
These teacher candidates impacted by the fellows in this program will, in the long run, create Global Learning Classrooms for their own pK-12 students. The program was originated at Global Teacher Education and transitioned to Longview in 2018.
The GTE fellows are teacher educators who represent a diverse range of expertise. They work in private teaching colleges as well as large public research institutions across the country. The GTE Mentors are experts in teacher education and global learning and each has been working throughout this academic year to support the revision of his/her Fellow's course.
Over the Fall and Spring semester, each fellow will redesign a course for teacher candidates that incorporates global learning outcomes supported by a deeper understanding of global competence, assessments, technology, and pedagogical practices. Fellows have been tasked with creating complementary resources, a module, and a video case. Materials will be made available to future teacher educators and teacher candidates.
Under the mentorship of experts in the field of global learning, each of the selected fellows will revise an undergraduate or graduate course which they teach in an initial teacher preparation program. The revised course will include global learning outcomes that will be enacted through engaging activities, resources, and assessments aimed at promoting global learning. Fellows will then pilot and assess the revised course with a class of their own teacher candidates during the academic year.
GTE Fellows are:
Committed to global learning;
Able to commit to attend monthly meetings and commit to the rigors of the program;
Engaged with a full time teaching load during the academic year which includes at least two teacher education courses in an initial teacher preparation program;
Able to teach a revised undergraduate or graduate teacher education course that incorporates global learning outcomes and accompanying activities, resources, and assessments;
Supported by their respective Dean or Department Chair.
More detail on the expectations of the fellows program is available in this description. After successful completion of the program, fellows may be invited to mentor the next cadre of Fellows and participate in an alumni network of Fellows in years to come.
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- Member of the Program Committee
- Vice President of the Board of Trustees
Jacqueline Yahn is an assistant professor and the Middle Childhood Education Program Coordinator for Ohio University's Eastern Campus. She earned her doctoral degree in educational administration with a special focus on rural education from Ohio University. Dr. Yahn teaches coursework in middle childhood education, adolescent and children's literature, and reading instruction and development. Her primary areas of scholarship are policy and leadership issues in rural schools and communities. Yahn's work often focuses on school funding in rural areas, as well as the influence rural industries have on school and community vitality.
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- Chairman of the Program Committee
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Secretary of the Board of Trustees
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- Professor of Teacher Education
Janelle B. Mathis is a Professor of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas' College of Education. As a literacy educator at UNT since 1997, Janelle Mathis focuses her teaching and research on children's and adolescent literature, especially works that are multicultural and international. She teaches courses at all levels that either focus on literature in the classroom or are undergirded by children's and adolescent literature. Her research interests, which often focus on response to literature and critical content analysis, are in the areas of the transactional theory of reader response, socio-cultural contexts for literacy teaching and learning, and critical literacy. She received her doctorate at the University of Arizona in the Department of Language, Reading, and Culture in 1994. She was a teaching assistant and adjunct at UA, and she also taught at Northern Illinois University prior to coming to UNT.
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- Associate Professor of Secondary Education in the College
Jennifer Mahon, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Secondary Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Nevada, Reno. She specializes in intercultural education, the development of intercultural sensitivity, and critical perspectives on international education. A major focus of her work has been the internationalization of the teaching profession, especially in regard to overseas student teaching, international professional development, and systemic barriers within teacher education. She teaches courses on diversity and global issues, family engagement, and critical pedagogy. Dr. Mahon directs UNR's work with the Fulbright Teaching Excellence Achievement Program, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and administered by IREX. She is the co-developer, along with Dr. Kenneth Cushner, of the revised Inventory of Cross-Cultural Sensitivity. Dr. Mahon is an elected Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She has a double-major Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction and Cultural Foundations of Education from Kent State University. She has worked in international schools in Australia, England and Costa Rica. During her time in the Longview Fellowship, Dr. Mahon will work on the course entitled Education in a Changing World in Spring 2022. Lynn Paine, Michigan State University, serves as Jennifer's mentor.
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- Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jeremy Hilburn is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Jeremy holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. He teaches a range of courses in the Middle Grades program - social studies methods, diverse learners, and field-based courses. He is also program coordinator for the Middle Grades MAT. Jeremy's research pursuits fall into several interconnected strands, broadly related to immigration and social studies education. His current line of inquiry is examining the influences that affect how teachers conceptualize and teach immigration and immigrant youth. A second strand relates to the spatial dimension of citizenship education; specifically, the ways teachers conceptualize and teach civic action at the local, national, and global levels. During Fall 2021, he will revise an initial licensure course called EDN 335: Social Studies Methods. Students enrolled in this course are progressing towards a BA or an MAT in Middle Grades Education and a NC teaching license in Middle Grades Social Studies. Brad Maguth, University of Akron, serves as Jeremy's mentor.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Program Committee
Kathleen Ann Ramos earned a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, Kathy is an assistant professor in the Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Exceptional Learners (TCLDEL) graduate program at George Mason University. As a teacher educator, Kathy teaches a variety of graduate courses designed to prepare current teachers and preservice teachers, locally and internationally, to teach PK-12 English learners with equity and excellence. Her courses are delivered in asynchronous online, hybrid, and face-to-face formats. Kathy's research interests include investigating ways to foster teachers' global competence and building teachers' capacity to globalize PK-12 curricula through a social justice lens. Other interests include researching pedagogies that are promising for supporting ELs in developing academic language and literacy practices. In fall 2017, Kathy participated as an Open GATE (Global Awareness in Teacher Education) Fellow via a partnership between OsloMet University and the Center for International Education at Mason. Recently, Kathy collaborated with an elementary education professor to create a study abroad experience for graduate students to implement an inquiry-based science and language learning enrichment program for K-6 learners in Costa Rica.
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- Professor in the Program of Language
Kathy Short is a Professor in the program of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona and has worked extensively with teachers to develop curriculum that actively involves students as readers and inquirers. Her work focuses on global literature, dialogue, curriculum as inquiry, and intercultural understanding. She has co-authored and edited many books, including Critical Content Analysis of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Teaching Globally: Reading the World through Literature, Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers, Learning Together through Inquiry, Stories Matter: The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children's Literature, and Essentials of Children's Literature. She is director of Worlds of Words (wowlit.org), an initiative to build bridges across global cultures through children's literature and served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English and of the United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY). In addition, she has participated on major award committees for children's literature, including the Caldecott.
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- Assistant Professor
- Program Coordinator
Kevin D. Cordi is an Assistant Professor and Middle Childhood Program Coordinator for Ohio University's Lancaster Campus. He earned his doctoral degree in Drama, Culture, Literacy and Language with a special emphasis on storytelling and education from The Ohio State University. Dr. Cordi teaches coursework in middle childhood education, adolescent and children's literature, and literacy development. In addition to being a university professor, he is and has been a national/international consultant the art and practice of using stories and storytelling to make meaning. He served as the first ever "Academic Storytelling in Residence" for the Multicultural Center at The Ohio State University. He most recently served on the National Advisory Board for Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance). He has edited and sent for review a book entitled Social Action Stories: Impact Tales for the School and Community. His most recent work You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School (University of Mississippi Press, 20219) explores how his teacher and Appalachian identity works when using story for learning. He has presented in over 45 states, England, Japan, Canada, Scotland, and Qatar. The course that he will revise and teach is EDMC 3210 Children's Literature for Middle Childhood in spring 2022. Kathy Short, University of Arizona, serves as Kevin's mentor.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Program Committee
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- Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Exceptionalities at James Madison University
Kristofor Wiley is an Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Exceptionalities at James Madison University. Wiley earned his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Virginia, with dissertation work in gifted education. He currently teaches foundations and diversity coursework for pre-service teachers, and he directs the K-12 gifted endorsement program. Wiley also serves as the global engagement liaison for the College of Education, coordinating international programs (study away, virtual exchange, and research) to help grow intercultural competence in pre-service teachers. His current scholarship surrounds the relationship between facilitated intercultural experience and teacher practice, with a second line in the cultural and diversity implications of advanced academics. Before earning his doctorate, he taught for six years in a full-time program for middle school students identified as gifted. Kris is an Eagle Scout and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine), and he lives with his wife and two daughters in Harrisonburg, VA. In the fall, he will be teaching EDUC 200, Foundations of U.S. Education. The course is mandatory for almost all licensure candidates, and the section will include elementary, secondary, and special education candidates. A global perspective on history, philosophy, legal issues, and institutional structure is very powerful. He also intends to carry his learning into a spring section of EDUC 310, Teaching in a Diverse Society. This course relies heavily on introspection and revelation of the student's cultural positionality, essential as a first step for understanding the positionalities of future students. Sandra Schneider, Radford University, serves as Kristofor's mentor.
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- Professor of Education at Providence College
Laura Boynton Hauerwas is a Professor of Education at Providence College. Laura has a Ph.D in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University. She teaches courses in the undergraduate elementary special education program and chairs the department's study abroad committee which developed and now overseas two customized teacher-abroad semesters in Florence, Italy and Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2013, she was the Faculty-in-Residence in the Florence program and since then has researched the impact of international teaching experiences on future teachers as well as the host community's students and cooperating teachers. This research has been published in the journals Teaching and Teacher Education and Journal of Higher Education Outreach. Laura's other research projects focus on language and learning, particularly for emergent bilinguals and those with reading/spelling disabilities and the implementation of Response to Intervention policies. As part of her Teaching Globally course, Laura has recently partnered with the iEARN Future Teacher project to bring opportunities for intercultural communication and global learning to her students locally.
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- Associate Professor of International Education
Laura Engel is an Associate Professor of International Education and International Affairs at the George Washington University (GW), where she is director of the International Education Program, co-director of the certificate program, Incorporating International Perspectives into Education, and co-chair of the GW UNESCO Chair in International Education for Development.
Laura has been actively involved in international education research in England, Spain, Romania, and the U.S., and has taught international experiences courses in Senegal and Cuba. Her interdisciplinary research on globalization studies, citizenship, and education policy has appeared in over 50 publications, including in Educational Policy, Compare, Journal of Educational Research, and Comparative Education Review. Her book, New State Formations in Education Policy: Reflections from Spain focused on globalization of education in federal systems drawing on the case of Catalonia and Spain. Her current work, funded by the National Geographic Society, focuses on the impacts of the DCPS Study Abroad and Local/Global Spaces programs on DC students, serving as the basis for the newly launched K-12 Global Innovation Forum. She also leads the National Science Foundation funded Arctic PIRE's educational outreach project, #60above60, connecting Arctic and non-Arctic urban classrooms through the global exchanges of digital environmental stories. She is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the 2013 GSEHD Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2017 DEL Award in Teaching Excellence.
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- Assistant Professor of Science
Lauren Angelone is the Assistant Professor of Science Education and Instructional Technology in the School of Education at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a PhD in Cultural Foundations, Technology, and Qualitative Inquiry from The Ohio State University. Currently, she teaches courses to undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of science and technology integration. Her research interests include the cultural study of technology in education, STEM, qualitative methodology, and antiracist pedagogies. She has a particular interest in the disrupting discourses surrounding technology use in the classroom as a critical pedagogical strategy. Lauren has been an avid traveler since raising her own funds to leave the country for the first time in order to participate in a student exchange to the UK and Ireland in the summer before her senior year of high school. In her technology classes, she uses the International Society for Technology in Education standards to help students learn to become global collaborators. During this year as a Global Teacher Education Fellow, she will revise her Instructional Technology course to more purposefully invest in internationalizing the curriculum. This course will be taught in both fall of 2022 and spring of 2023.
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- Associate Professor of Education
Lisa M. Dembouski is Associate Professor of Education, Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN); Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum, & Instruction/Culture & Teaching from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Before joining the Gustavus faculty, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer, wilderness survival counselor, SpEd teacher in St. Paul Public Schools, and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. At Gustavus, she teaches a variety of courses in the Education department and supervise student teachers both locally and abroad. She is the point person for the department's "Global Educators" program, created a January-term course on the island of Sint Maarten (which she will focus on during this fellowship), and is developing another study-away for a future June-term course on the Camino de Santiago (in Spain). She loves teaching as a vocation/profession, the many opportunities that a small liberal arts college offers, and the ability to direct her interests in a variety of ways as a natural part of her work. In my free time, she loves to read, cook, garden/grow things, the outdoors, and travel. She is currently working on my goal to camp, hike, and/or kayak in every one of Minnesota's 66 State Parks (only 28 to go!). Course focus for this Fellowship: EDU 235: Supporting Pupil Learning on Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies. This course is for elementary, secondary, and K-12 initial teacher licensure candidates.
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- Member of the Nominations Committee
- President of the Board of Trustees
Mary Elizabeth Curran is the Associate Dean for Local-Global Partnerships and Coordinator of Language Education Programs at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Curriculum and Instruction. Curran teaches courses on second language acquisition, the relationship between language and culture, and teacher education. Her scholarship focuses on the topics of globalization and education, service learning, and language teacher education. She has published in journals such as The Journal of Teacher Education, TESOL Quarterly, Theory into Practice, and Learning Languages. She directs the award-winning Conversation Tree: Community-Based Language Partnership Program, and she has received STARTALK grants for Chinese language teacher preparation programs for the past eight years. Dr. Curran has frequently collaborated with colleagues at the United Nations. In 2010, the Committee on Teaching about the United Nations was hosted at Rutgers under Dr. Curran's guidance. Together with colleagues, she has worked on the Rutgers United Nations Curriculum Development Project. For three years, she served as Rutgers faculty liaison to the United Nations. On several occasions she has taken her students on visits to the United Nations and has collaborated with UN staff and world language teachers on projects related to language education.
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- Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Ohio University
Michael Kopish is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Ohio University. He taught high school social studies for 10 years before earning his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an emphasis in social studies education. At Ohio University he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in social studies education and global education. Dr. Kopish's research interests include service learning, global citizenship education, civic engagement, and inclusive classroom practices in social studies.
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- Fellow
- Assistant Professor of World Languages Education at the University of Connecticut
Michele Back (Fellow) is an Assistant Professor of World Languages Education at the University of Connecticut. She works as an advisor and professor to preservice Spanish and French teachers at the University's Neag School of Education. Sharon Brennan (Mentor) is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Practices and School Partnerships at the University of Kentucky's College of Education. These two scholars have been working on redesigning Back's Seminar in World Languages to incorporate well-defined and measurable global learning outcomes and to make use of hybrid classroom tools such as VoiceThread and blog assignments including an Autobiography of an Intercultural Encounter with students from Spanish speaking countries.
Minda Morren López earned her Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language from the University of Texas, San Antonio. Currently, she is associate professor of literacy and serves as associate chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses to preservice and inservice teachers and literacy specialists in reading, writing, multicultural education, and language acquisition. Her award-winning dissertation examined language ideologies and biliteracy practices in Spanish-English Two-Way Immersion schools in Texas. She continues to publish mixed-methods research on topics such as equity, ideologies, literacies, language acquisition, multicultural/multilingual education, and teacher preparation and development.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Finance Committee
- Member of the Nominations Committee
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- Fellow
- Assistant Professor of Education at Avila University
Nilufer Guler (Fellow) is an Assistant Professor of Education at Avila University who specializes in TESOL, English Language Learner (ELL) education, and teacher education. Her Mentor, Margo Glew, is the Coordinator of Global Initiatives and Global Educators Cohort Program at Michigan State University. Together, they have been working to redesign Guler's course in Educational and Developmental Psychology to incorporate a Faces of Avila Project to find and learn from existing global connections on the Avila campus.
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- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Treasurer of the Board of Trustees
Job Titles:
- Professor in the Department of Counseling
Paula J. Beckman is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Beckman has a long career focused on children who are at risk for learning problems due to poverty and lack of educational opportunity. As part of this interest, she is currently working with children, teachers and schools in poor, developing countries, particularly in Central America. In this area, she has been providing training for teachers as well as working with administrators to improve the quality of education for children in poor communities. She serves as an Educational Advisor for International Partners, an NGO working to develop community led projects in rural El Salvador. She is a member of the U.S. Coalition for the Global Campaign for Education and a member of the Early Childhood Task for Children with Disabilities of the Global Partnership for Education. At the University of Maryland, she is an Affiliate Faculty member in the Latin American Study Center. She has been leading service based study abroad courses for the past nine years. As an internationally known expert in early childhood development, special education, and working with families, Dr. Beckman consults with early childhood programs throughout the United States. She has also been involved in international research and training projects in Europe. She has 30 years of experience conducting training as well as in developing, implementing and evaluating projects.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of TESOL / BDL
Rabia Hos is an associate professor of TESOL/BDL and the graduate program director at The University of Rhode Island's School of Education. She was an ESOL teacher in Rochester public schools for over a decade before earning her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 2012. She has been a faculty in teacher preparation programs for the past decade and worked at an international university in Turkey and the Illinois State University before arriving at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on immigrant and refugee newcomer students with inconsistent/interrupted formal education (SIFE), teacher education, and professional development of teachers. She recently served as an English Language Specialist for the U.S. Department of State providing professional development to English language teachers and teacher mentors at the USPEaK Organization in Lebanon. She is also a co-PI for "Preparing Globally Competent Teachers for Rhode Island and beyond: A collaborative project with Providence College and University of Rhode Island", funded by the Longview Foundation. The course that she will modify/create is EDC441-Comparative and International Education. This is a new course that will be created and offered in Spring 2023 for pre-service and in-service teachers in the teacher education program.
Sandra Schneider teaches foundations of education and multicultural courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Schneider serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech. Schneider's work in Global Education includes intersecting global education with local economic development, community problem-solving, and social entrepreneurship to address the unique needs of rural and Appalachian educators along with their students and parents in rural communities. Her research interest includes rural education, critical policy studies, non-traditional forms of research to develop public conversations about teaching, teacher preparation including teacher knowledge(s) and understandings about their work, and the use and impact of technology in teaching within local contexts and everyday activity.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominations Committee
Shannon Tanghe, originally from rural Minnesota, has spent most of the last two decades teaching English and TESOL courses abroad. After receiving a BA in Elementary Education from the University of Minnesota-Morris, Shannon began teaching English in Seoul, South Korea, where she earned an MA in TESOL/CALL from Woosong University. In 2013, she earned a PhD in TESOL & Composition from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She was recognized by the TESOL International Association as 2016 TESOL Teacher of the Year. Shannon has spent more than 16 years living and teaching in South Korea. Shannon is currently the Program Director and Associate Professor with the MA in ESL program at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Prior to this, she was department chair of the MA TESOL program at Dankook University's Graduate School of TESOL in Korea. She has also taught in elementary schools in Cairo, Egypt, and Georgetown, Guyana. Shannon has recently published several book chapters and journal articles, with recent publications in English Today, System, Asia Pacific Education Review, and TESOL Quarterly journals. Her main research interests are teacher collaboration, internationalizing teacher education, World English and reflective teaching practices.
Shea Kerkhoff joined the University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Education as Assistant Professor of secondary education in August 2018. She holds a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Kerkhoff utilizes mixed methods to investigate critical, digital, and global literacies. Her research centers on integrating inquiry-based global learning with adolescent literacy instruction. For her dissertation study, she was named an International Literacy Association Outstanding Dissertation Finalist and earned the first-place award at the North Carolina State University Graduate Student Research Symposium. Her work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Reading & Writing Quarterly. She taught high school English for seven years, including North Carolina and District of Columbia Public Schools and currently serves as Assistant Editor of English Education, a National Council of Teachers of English journal. She also serves as Going Global, Inc.'s Regional Director- Africa and previously served as 4 the World's Education Director. In this capacity, the International Literacy Association awarded her the Constance McCullough grant to conduct inquiry-based digital literacy professional development and research with teachers in Kitale, Kenya. Dr. Kerkhoff is passionate about global education at home and abroad.
Sumudu Lewis is originally from England, and now lives and works in the United States. Lewis received her Bachelors degree in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Brighton in England. She then continued to graduate level, and received a D.Phil in Organic Chemistry. Lewis' first job as a science teacher was in a rural school in the southeast of England. The school was a high achieving school, with a homogenous body of students and staff. After two years, Lewis moved to London where she worked in a multicultural school with a diverse population of students and staff. It was estimated at one time that 52 languages were represented in that school. Lewis worked there as Head of Science Department for six years and left to take on a job as an Assistant Principal in another school in London. This school also had a diverse population of students and staff representing different parts of the world. Lewis moved to the U.S. in 2008, and received her Ed.D in Science Education from University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2015. She currently works as a Clinical Assistant Professor at UMass Lowell and as co-director of the UTeach program preparing the next generation of STEM teachers.
Job Titles:
- Lecturer in the School of Teaching and Learning
Suzanne C. Chapman is a Lecturer in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. She earned her M.Ed. and Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Florida in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Chapman has eight years of experience in Title 1 education. During her time in Title 1 schools, she worked as a first-grade teacher, secondary level intensive reading teacher, and as a reading coach for a K-5 school. In 2011, Dr. Chapman returned to the University of Florida to pursue a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, concentrating on literacy and language instruction. In 2014, she was appointed to the role of Visiting Lecturer at the University of Florida, instructing courses in children's literature, language arts, reading diagnosis and remediation, and content area literacy. Dr. Chapman received her doctorate in 2015 and has since been appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Florida. Her current research interests focus on disciplinary literacy in secondary content area classrooms and preparing pre-service teachers to use children's literature as a tool for promoting social justice and global awareness in their future classrooms.
Tanja Carmel Sargent has a PhD degree in Education and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Associate Professor of Education, Culture and Society at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Tanja's research has focused on student-centered reforms to teaching in China. She is the program coordinator of the Education, Culture and Society EdM and EdD programs. She teaches courses in the social contexts of education and international education including Education and Society, Comparative Education, and Chinese Education and Society. She is also an instructor, and the course coordinator, for Introduction to Education which is a required class that undergraduate Education minor students must take before they apply to any of the Rutgers 5-year teacher education programs. This 05:300:200 Introduction to Education course, and its accompanying clinical component, is the course that she will revise. She will teach this course in both Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. Tanja is being mentored by Lesley Bartlett, Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Educational Foundation
Tim Mahoney is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Educational Foundations at Millersville University. Tim holds a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice from The University of Colorado at Boulder, and an M.A. in Teaching Secondary Science from the University of Michigan. Tim began his teaching career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala, and has taught high school science and in teacher education programs in Detroit, Colorado, Montana, California and Taiwan before coming to Millersville. In addition to the administrative responsibilities of department chair, he teaches Foundations of Education and Philosophy of Education at Millersville. In 2018, he was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship at the University of Lower Silesia in Poland. His research interests center on disposition development and evaluation in pre-service teachers and more recently, policy evolution in global educational systems. The course he will modify is EDFN 211-Foundations of Modern Education. This is a required course for pre-service teachers at Millersville and is a perfect place to work on internationalizing the content. He focuses the content on the history and philosophy of educational systems, and use stories and case studies rather than textbooks to communicate content. He has used examples from Taiwan, Poland and Kenya. Most of the students are Sophomores. His sections focus on Secondary teachers in all content areas. Tim will be mentored by Kenneth Cushner, Professor Emeritus, International and Intercultural Teacher Education at Kent State University.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Nominations Committee
- Member of the Board of Trustees