Faculty and Staff

Childhood Education

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Jennifer Gordon

Associate Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 243D

Research Interests

  • Qualitative research methodology, race and social justice
  • School reform initiatives including the charter movement
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Early Childhood Education

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Elizabeth M. Anderson

Associate Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 243E

Research Interests

  • Integrating a community schools approach with an expanded Multi-Tiered System of Supports framework to support students, families and communities
  • How to improve the alignment and integration of programs and services by strengthening university-school-community partnerships.
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Educational Foundations

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Lightning Jay

Assistant Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 230A

Research Interests

  • Supporting students to engage in authentic, rigorous, and student-centered historical discourse.
  • Facilitating the development of social studies teachers. 
  • Understanding teacher education pedagogy and teachers' development of adaptive expertise.
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Education Minor

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David Archer

Lecturer, Undergraduate Minor Coordinator

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 222

Research Interests

  • Understanding what leads to individuals reaching peak performance as students and as athletes
  • Skills and concepts of Leadership
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Educational Leadership

English Education

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Matthew L. McConn

Associate Professor, Executive Assistant Dean; TRIP Courtesy Title

CCPA Dean's Office; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
DC 333D

Research Interests

  • The impact of standards on teacher development for the teaching of literary appreciation
  • The professional development of teaching English in secondary schools
  • The processes of change in secondary English teachers’ perceptions regarding the purposes of teaching literature.
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Literacy Education

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Marla H. Mallette

Associate Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 244

Research Interests

  • understanding the role of teachers’ and students’ beliefs about literacy learning
  • teacher expectations
  • early literacy learning
  • literacy instruction and intervention
  • mixed methods research in literacy
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Bogum Yoon

Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 238

Research Interests

  • Critical literacies
  • Critical global literacies
  • Critical analysis of children’s and youth literature
  • Cultural pluralism
  • Positional identities
  • Language and literacy theories into practice
  • Development of literacy frameworks
  • Teacher education for immigrant students and English language learners
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Mathematics Education

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Amber Simpson

Associate Professor; Co-Assistant Director

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Center for Community Schools
AB 242

Research Interests

  • Examining individual’s identity(ies) in one or more STEM disciplines
  • Understanding the role of making and tinkering in formal and informal learning environments
  • Investigating family engagement in and interactions around STEM-related activities
  • Examining spontaneous and humanistic approaches to mathematics through other fields such as archaeology and engineering
  • Utilizing self-study methodology to examine her own practices as an educator and researcher
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Mental Health in Schools

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Elizabeth Mellin

Associate Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 234C

Research Interests

  • Clinical mental health counseling approaches for addressing childhood trauma, especially for adolescent girls and queer youth
  • Reducing the longer-term relational and mental health impacts of childhood trauma
  • Expanded school-based mental health programs and services
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Science Education

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Thomas P. O'Brien

Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 126B

Research Interests

  • BSCS 5E “intelligent” CIA model (Engage-Explore-Explain-Elaborate-Evaluate)
  • Real-world relevant FUNomena-first, discrepant events and Science Technology-Society issues
  • Cognitive, evolutionary and social psychology
  • Pre-service and in-service science teacher professional development
  • 360-degree, transformational K-12 educational leadership for all school stakeholders
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Special Education

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Loretta Mason-Williams

Director of the Community Research and Action, PhD Program; Associate Professor

CCPA CRA PhD Program; CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership

Research Interests

  • Critical quantitative research
  • Issues related to the teacher supply demand and preparation of well-prepared teachers
  • Equitable education
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Nicole S. Fenty

TLEL Department Chair, Associate Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 113B

Research Interests

  • Students with or at risk for disabilities in reading teacher education and special education
  • Increased access to the general education curriculum for students with or at risk for learning disabilities
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Hyejung Kim

Assistant Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 243G

Research Interests

  • Intersectionality of multi-layered vulnerabilities including dis/abilities
  • Educational equity
  • Students with autism and other neurodevelopmental dis/abilities
  • Postsecondary transition from high school to adulthood
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Tracy Lyman

Lecturer

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 229C

Research Interests

  • Trauma informed practices
  • Social emotional learning
  • Supporting inclusion for student with developmental disabilities
  • Engagement with families
  • Collaboration in early childhood settings
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Candace A. Mulcahy

Associate Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 246

Research Interests

  • Education policies that apply to youth in corrections
  • Provision of appropriate education and special education services to marginalized youth
  • Effective reading and mathematics instruction for youth with disabilities in public schools and for youth in corrections
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Social Studies Education

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Adam Laats

Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 231

Research Interests

  • History of American education
  • Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
  • Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
  • History of creation/evolution debates
  • Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
  • Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history
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TESOL

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Hoe Kyeung Kim

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
AB 243F

Research Interests

  • Teacher education and assessment
  • L2 writing
  • Bilingual and Multilingualism
  • Korean L2 learning
  • Educational technology
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Professional Staff