CEHD - Key Persons
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- Member of the College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
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- Member of the College Graduate Curriculum Committee
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- Member of the College Faculty Promotion & Tenure Committee
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- Member of the College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
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- Member of the College Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Committee
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- Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate Services
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- Academic Program Coordinator
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- Graduate Student Orientation
Dr. Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple is a professor in the School of Education and director of the Partnership for Public Education at the University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Education Policy and has been working in educational research for ten years. She has expertise in quantitative and mixed methods and applies a variety of methodological tools to research projects, including in regression, multi-level models, social-network analysis, surveys, and content analysis. Her research expertise is in policy analysis and evidence-based decision-making, and recent work includes studies of administrator mobility, school and teachers' use of data, teacher quality and effects, and equity in student outcomes.
Dr. Farley-Ripple has been awarded grants from the Spencer Foundation and the Institute for Education Sciences and has published research in respected journals such as Educational Researcher, Journal of Educational Administration, Educational Policy, American Journal of Education, Educational Management, Administration, and Leadership, and Urban Education. She recently discussed her article, The Development of Capacity for Data Use: The Role of Teacher Networks in an Elementary School, in an episode of the The Voice on Vialogues.
Farley-Ripple, E. (co-PI). Understanding Leverage Points: How Do Teachers Use Data to Inform Instruction? Spencer Foundation, Evidence for the Classroom Initiative, in partnership with the Northwest Evaluation Association, 2014. ($300,000)
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- Director of Research
- Interim Director
Dr. Laura Desimone is the L. Sandra and Bruce L. Hammonds Professor in Teacher Education, Interim Director of the School of Education and Director of Research in the College of Education and Human Development, with a faculty appointment in the School of Education and an affiliation with the Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics faculty group. She holds a secondary appointment in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration. Before that, she was a professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 until 2018, with a secondary appointment at the School of Social Policy and Practice. She was an assistant professor at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University from 2001-2007, and before that was a senior research scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and a post-doctoral research associate at Yale University's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. She was also a researcher at RAND in Washington, D.C., and at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Dr. Desimone has served in technical advisory roles to several national organizations, including the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, the Comprehensive School Reform Clearinghouse, and the National Study of No Child Left Behind. She has been on the editorial boards of Educational Administration Quarterly, Teachers College Record, and Educational Researcher and is currently on the editorial board for the American Education Research Journal.
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the College Graduate Curriculum Committee
Dr. Marika Ginsburg-Block is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses primarily on investigating school-based, peer and parent mediated intervention programs for vulnerable youth, while also seeking to better understand the numerous mechanisms that lead to student achievement. Her current work involves developing an adequate measure of family early literacy practices and with this measure clarifying the mechanisms by which families contribute to the development of language and literacy skills in their young children.
Dr. Ginsburg-Block holds a Ph.D. in School Community and Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2003 and recently completed a six year term as coordinator for the graduate program in school psychology. She teaches courses in counseling, psychopathology, and mental health consultation, and she supervises field-based internship experiences in school psychology.
Dr. Ginsburg-Block c0-directs Project GROW (Growing Resilience, Opportunities, and Wellness in Delaware Schools), a project funded by the United States Department of Education and Delaware Department of Education. Project GROW seeks to integrate and evaluate state-wide, cross-university efforts to advance school mental health service professional recruitment, preparation, practice, and retention in high-need schools across Delaware. Concurrently, this project targets the adoption and sustained use of inclusive practices and equity-focused data-based decision-making within multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) in Delaware schools.
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- Associate
- Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator, Associate in Arts in Elementary Teacher Education ( Wilmington )
- Program Coordinator, Wilmington
Dr. Teresa Hickok is the program coordinator for the Associate in Arts Elementary Teacher Education (AA-ETE) Wilmington program and an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. As program coordinator for AA-ETE Wilmington, Dr. Hickok recruits prospective students, teaches freshman seminar, learning science, and literacy education courses, as well as coordinates and supervises early field experiences in local schools and other organizations. In addition, she advises all AA-ETE Wilmington students and prepares sophomores for their transition to the Newark campus. Relatedly, she is a faculty mentor for CEI summer scholars, a field instructor for methods students placed in Wilmington, and advisor for Ed.D. candidates in the Educational Leadership doctoral program.
Prior work has included interning and delivering a workshop series on the Learning Forward Standards at the Delaware Department of Education, conducting research on the teaching of literature and nonfiction to develop a novel study curriculum unit as a Yale National Fellow, and serving on the ETS Praxis Reading Specialist National Advisory Committee (NAC) to develop item specifications for the PRAXIS Reading Specialist and Reading K-12 tests. Earlier in her career, she taught all subjects in elementary grades, middle school English Language Arts, high school English, and eventually became a reading specialist, instructional coach, and RTI Coordinator.
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- Member of the College Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Committee
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- Member of the College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
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- Dean
- Dean / College of Education and Human Development
Gary Henry - Dean
(302) 831-0948
cehd-dean@udel.edu
Kelly Megee - Assistant to the Dean
(302) 831-2394
kmegee@udel.edu
Laura Desimone - Director of Research
lauramd@udel.edu
Kristine Ritz-Coll - Senior Assistant Dean, Student Services
(302) 831-2396
kritz@udel.edu
Christina Mason Johnston - Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate Services
(302) 831-6955
cmj@udel.edu
Rachel Mroz - Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
(302) 831-2397
rs@udel.edu
Christine Shinn - Human Resources Director
(302) 831-2313
cshinn@udel.edu
Elise Berrocal - Communications Director
enb@udel.edu
Jessica Henderson - Communications Specialist
jch@udel.edu
Shelly Silva- Digital Communications Specialist
stsilva@udel.edu
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- Program Coordinator
- Associate in Arts Elementary Teacher Education Program
- Program Coordinator, Southern Delaware
- Southern Delaware Program Coordinator
Dr. Scott Lykens is the Southern Delaware program coordinator and an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. As Southern Delaware program coordinator, Dr. Lykens works to recruit students in Southern Delaware for the Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) program, as well as teachers and administrators for the M.Ed. and Ed.D. programs. He also serves as the coordinator for the Associate in Arts ETE program in Georgetown, Delaware, where he advises students and teaches EDUC 100: Introduction to Elementary and Middle School Education. Dr. Lykens also assists with graduate courses in the M.Ed. and Ed.D. programs.
Dr. Lykens has participated in and contributed to research on gender equity in science education. His current interest area is in research on supporting first generation college students.
Prior to joining the University of Delaware, Dr. Lykens worked for the Caesar Rodney School District for over 30 years. During that time, he served as a high school chemistry teacher, football, wresting, and track coach, assistant principal, supervisor of instruction, director of instruction, and assistant superintendent.
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- Communications Specialist
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- Member of the College Graduate Curriculum Committee
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- Manager, Computing Operations
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- Member of the College Faculty Promotion & Tenure Committee
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- Member of the College Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Committee
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- Member of the College Faculty Promotion & Tenure Committee
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- Senior Assistant Dean, Student Services
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- Member of the College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
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- Chairman
- Professor
- the Department Chair and Professor
Martha Buell is the department chair and professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Her area of interest is teacher development and early childhood education, especially in the areas of language and literacy development. She teaches classes in early childhood curriculum, and her research focuses on factors that influence the professional development of early childhood teachers and child care providers. In the past, Buell has worked on several projects examining the quality of child care, and how teacher education contributes to that quality.
She is particularly interested in factors that affect the quality of early care and education for infants and toddlers. Her concern in large part has developed out of her work with the Early Head Start program that is operated out of the University of Delaware that serves both New Castle and Kent counties in Delaware. This program is designed to enhance the development of infants and toddlers and help parents do the best job they can of raising their very young children.
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- Member of the College Faculty Promotion & Tenure Committee
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- Dean Family Endowed Chair and Professor
- Dean Family Endowed Chair of Education and Professor
Nancy C. Jordan is Dean Family Endowed Chair and Professor specializing in Learning Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on how children learn math and why so many struggle. Professor Jordan has received numerous grants, including from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.
Professor Jordan recently served as Chair of the governing board of the international Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. She also served on the Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics of the National Research Council and as an expert panel member on the U.S. Department of Education Practice Guides on teaching math to young children and on providing interventions for students with math disabilities.
Professor Jordan is dedicated to disseminating her work to a wide audience, including researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. She translates her foundational research to improve educational practice, especially for those with learning disabilities and limited educational opportunities in STEM. She has developed successful interventions and screening tools for high-risk children, including the widely used Number Sense Interventions and the Screener for Early Number Sense.
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- Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
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- Professor
- Professor Emeritus
Ralph P. Ferretti is professor emeritus in the School of Education and the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. His current scholarship focuses on interventions that promote students' self-regulatory skills in written argumentation. He served as co-editor of The Journal of Special Education, on the editorial boards of Exceptional Children and The Journal of Special Education, and currently serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Educational Psychology and The Journal of Teacher Education. He is a member of the National Center for Intensive Intervention's Technical Review Committee for Instruction.
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- Member of the College Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Committee
Rosalie Rolón-Dow is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She approaches research from an anthropological perspective and focuses on how race and other sociocultural identities shape educational experiences. Her research primarily focuses on the experiences of racially minoritized students and engages critical race frameworks to address educational problems. With the support of a Spencer Foundation grant, she studied how microaggression and microaffirmation experiences impact racially minoritized university students and the ways they navigate predominantly white universities. In teacher education, she explores how teacher education programs can center racial literacy pedagogies and curriculum and investigates how pre-service teachers respond to racial literacy instruction.
Dr. Rolón-Dow's recent work has been published in journals such as Race, Ethnicity and Education, The International Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education, Multicultural Perspectives, and The Centro Journal. Along with Dr. Jason Irizarry, she co-edited a book titled, Diaspora Studies in Education: Towards a Framework for Understanding the Experiences of Transnational Communities.
Dr. Rolón-Dow brings expertise on qualitative methods to her research and engages in collaborative projects with faculty, staff or students. She teaches courses on race, culture and education; urban education and qualitative research methods.
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- Member of the College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
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- Member of the College Graduate Curriculum Committee
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- Digital Communications Specialist
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- HR Generalist
- Human Resources Unit
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- Interim Associate Director
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- Member of the College Graduate Curriculum Committee