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Dean

Marcie Wycoff-Horn

Associate Dean

Pao Lor

Dean's Assistant

Office of the Dean Staff

Beth Gamoke
Jourdan Stacey  Jourdan Stacey saysMeet with me
Mackenzie Taylor

Office of Field Experience

Cindy Duley

Specialty areas:

Field Experience Coordinator and Partnership Specialist:

  • STEP (Secondary Teacher Education Program - English, Math, Science, Social Studies)
  • PASHE (Physical, Adapted, School Health Education)
  • AWLME (Art, World Language, Music Education)
  • Out-of-Area Student Teaching (Educators Abroad, Wisconsin Improvement Program (WIP) Internships, Institute for Urban Education (IUE), Notre Dame School of Milwaukee Program)
  • School of Education Graduate Programs
Christy Wopat

Specialty areas:

Field Experience Coordinator and Communication Specialist:

  • ECE (Early Childhood Education)
  • EME (Elementary/Middle Education)
  • EME/SPE (Special Education)
  • EME/TSL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

Communication/Social Media for School of Education & Office of Field Experiences

Makayla Prince

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of educator preparation, educator preparation programs are formally housed in three different academic units at UWL. As such, faculty and instructional staff directly aligned with educator preparation and supporting these programs are also housed in a variety of units and departments (links lead to faculty profiles):

The term “SOE-affiliated faculty” is used to describe faculty and Instructional Academic Staff with teaching and/or student supervisory duties in programs that are approved to prepare students for licensure through Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and who are housed in units outside of the School of Education. These faculty undergo personnel review in a collaborative manner by their content unit Dean and the SOE Dean.

Faculty and Instructional Academic Staff housed in the Department of Educational Studies (DES) and the Institute for Professional Studies (IPSE) are considered to be “SOE faculty and staff”. These faculty undergo personnel review solely by the SOE Dean.

Additional info

Expectations

All SOE and SOE-affiliated faculty and IAS are expected to be engaged in service and scholarly activities that inform and enhance the work they do with prospective teachers (in alignment with WI PI 34.014). Some additional work hours outside of the academic school year may be required in order to align duties with PK-12 school year. In particular, 

  • SoE affiliated faculty are expected to have preparation specifically related to their assignment, hold an advanced degree and demonstrate expertise in their assigned area of responsibility, be knowledgeable about the current elementary, middle, and/or secondary curriculum, Wisconsin academic standards, practices, requirements, technology, and administrative practices relevant to their program, and to incorporate current techniques that are relevant to the PK-12 setting into their teaching.
  • SoE affiliated faculty are hired in a role associated with preparing educators and are therefore expected to be engaged in scholarly activities that inform and enhance the work they do with prospective teachers.
  • SoE affiliated faculty are expected to participate in service and professional practice with PK-12 schools, professional organizations, and other education related endeavors at the local, state or national level that aligns with and informs PK-12 education and their work as teacher educators

SOE faculty in Educational Studies

Diane Block

Specialty areas:

Special Education
Intellectual Disabilities/Cross-Categorical

ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder

Mental Health and Resiliency in Education

Tracie Bosch
Megan Burke
James Carlson

Specialty areas:

Social Foundations of Education; Multicultural Education; Culturally Relevant Pedagogy; Literacy Studies

Tammy Chandler  Tammy Chandler saysMeet with me
Rita Chen

Specialty areas:

K-8 Literacy, Teacher Education, Critical Literacy, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, & Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Rosalie DeFino  Rosalie DeFino saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Math Education

Teacher Education

Elementary Teaching

Ann Epstein

Specialty areas:

Early Childhood Education, Montessori

Yuko Iwai

Specialty areas:

literacy, teacher education, TESOL, children's literature, self-efficacy

Lema Kabashi

Specialty areas:

 

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Video-Based Instruction
  • Single Subject Research Design
    • Multiple Baseline Design
      • Across Behaviors, Across Participants, Across Settings​
    • A-B- and A-B-A-B Design 
    • Parallel Design
  • Computer Skills  
    • Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint​
  • Learning Management Systems
    • D2L, BlackBoard
  • Technology 
    • GoReact, TeachLive, Animoto​, VoiceThread, iMovie, EdPuzzle, Kahoot, Padlet, Wix, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast, YouTube Channel, PowToon, Pear Deck, Glogster, etc.
Janet Koll
Valerie Krage  Valerie Krage saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Early childhood education, family engagement in education, impact of poverty on development and learning.

Amy Lein

Specialty areas:

Special Education, universal design for learning, socio-emotional learning

Darla Linville
Heather Linville

Specialty areas:

Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.

Matt McParker  Matt McParker saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Social Studies Education

Multicultural Education

Mid-Level Education

Jodie Novak

Specialty areas:

American Sign Language

Interpreting/Translation

Linguistics

Language Education

 

Caryn Peterson
Mariah Pfundheller

Specialty areas:

- Special Education

- Early Childhood Special Education

- Deaf and Hard of Hearing

- Educational Sustainability

- Equity and Inclusion in Education

Jennifer Pierce

Specialty areas:

Global education; multilingual and multicultural education; TESOL; English as a world language; grammar and pronunciation; cultural identities and language.

Lisa Pitot  Lisa Pitot saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Science Methods, Assessment, Science Literacy, and Science Communication. Place-based / Project-based learning, and using Socio-scientific Issues to teach Science. 

Mckenzie Rabenn

Specialty areas:

Online learning, teacher professional development, literacy, children's literature, environmental justice, and rural education. 

Jenny Ruetten
Charlotte Roberts
Denise Rueter

Specialty areas:

Early Childhood and Elementary Literacy

Joseph Spurlock

Specialty areas:

Early Science Teaching Methods

Intersectional Equity in Elementary Education

Research in Partnership with Classroom Communities

Jackie Viotto

Specialty areas:

Systems to support students with disabilities in the general education classroom.

Daniel Walsh

Specialty areas:

Immigrant English learners in secondary schools, culturally sustaining pedagogy, youth participatory action research/critical ethnographic methods

Julie Welch

SOE faculty in Institute for Professional Studies in Education (IPSE)

Alyssa Harlan

Specialty areas:

Reading Teacher, Reading Specialist, Foundations of Reading Test, reading intervention, assessment, target-based grading

Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
Voting Member of the River Studies Center

 

Kimberly Edwards

Specialty areas:

Reading Teacher, Reading Specialist, Reading Interventions, Elementary and Middle Level Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development

SOE-affiliated faculty in Science

Jennifer Docktor  Jennifer Docktor saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Physics Education

SOE-affiliated faculty in Physical, Adapted, and School Health Education

Gicheol Kim  Gicheol Kim saysMeet with me
  • Exercise & Sport Science
  • Assistant Professor
  • Mitchell Hall
  • gkim@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

physical education teacher education, kinesiology, scholarship of teaching and learning, online education

Brock McMullen

Specialty areas:

Adapted Physical Education and Physical Education Teacher Preparation 

Sarah Mosley

Specialty areas:

Teen Mental Health

Mental Health in Schools

New Standards (PE/Health) Implementation  

Jenna Starck

Specialty areas:

Physical Education Teaching Graduate Program Director

Adventure Education & Outdoor Pursuits Emphasis Director

Adventure Education Program Director

Research Interests: assessment literacy, adventure education, social and emotional learning, and occupational socialization theory

Gabrielle Strittmater

Specialty areas:

Meaningful Physical Education

Physical Education Teacher Education

Adventure and Outdoor Pursuits

Nicolette Suchon
  • Exercise & Sport Science
  • Assistant Professor - Exercise Sports Science
  • Mitchell Hall
  • nsuchon@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Physical Education Teacher Education

Health Education

Social Emotional Learning

Abigail Wagner

Specialty areas:

Adapted Physical Education

Pre-K and Elementary Physical Education

SOE-affiliated faculty in Math Education

Matthew Chedister

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education and Geometry

Josh Hertel

Specialty areas:

Teaching mathematics with technology, alternative forms of assessment and ungrading, mathematics education history, teaching and learning of trigonometry, and the development of probabilistic reasoning.

Jennifer Kosiak

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education

Jenni Mccool

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education

SOE-affiliated faculty in English Education

Merideth Garcia

Specialty areas:

Digital Literacies, Fan Studies, English Teaching Methods, Young Adult Literature, Qualitative Research, Rhetoric & Composition

Thomas Jesse

Specialty areas:

20 & 21c American Literature, Secondary English Education, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetorical Approaches to Literature

SOE-affiliated faculty in Broadfield Social Studies Education

Dean Vesperman  Dean Vesperman saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Citizenship and democracy education 

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Education Policy

Taylor Hamblin

Specialty areas:

Social studies educator specializing in grades 6-12, focusing on inquiry-based instruction, historical thinking, and civic engagement.

SOE-affiliated faculty in Art Education

Lisa Lenarz  Lisa Lenarz saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Art Education

SOE-affiliated faculty in Music Education

Tammy Fisher

Specialty areas:

Marching and Symphonic Bands, Instrumental Music Education, Conducting, Percussion Studies

Christopher Hathaway

SOE-affiliated faculty in World Languages Education

Kimberly Morris

Specialty areas:

Hispanic Linguistics, World Language Pedagogy, Pragmatics, Study Abroad, Curriculum Design, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Teacher Preparation, Academic Literacy

Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo

Specialty areas:

Contemporary Latin American literature and culture; Motherhood Studies, US Colombian Studies, and World Languages Education.

SOE-affiliated faculty in School Psychology

Angela Goethel
Dan Hyson

Specialty areas:

Equity-Minded Teaching

School Psychology (especially Teacher-Student Relationships, Alternative Approaches to Working with Behaviorally Challenging Students, Systems-Level Data-Driven Decision Making)

Jocelyn Newton  Jocelyn Newton saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology

Jiaju Wu

Specialty areas:

Applied Behavior Analysis and Gifted Education