Teachers College
Dr. Ligia Gomez Franco

Dr. Ligia Gomez Franco

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Vocabulary learning, Reading comprehension, Spanish-speaking children and parents, Monolingual and Bilingual environments.

Dr. Jerrell Cassady

Dr. Jerrell Cassady

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Promoting learning outcomes through the application of psychological principles in traditional and non-traditional learning contexts

Dr. Penny Craig

Dr. Penny Craig

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Updated resources, new technologies, documenting lived, personal experiences of those with disabilities

Dr. Kathryn Fletcher

Dr. Kathryn Fletcher

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: How do parents help children navigate challenging online learning tasks?

Rachel Geesa

Rachel Geesa

Department: Educational Leadership
Research Area: Exploring academic, professional, and personal development and support systems for educational leaders in national and international settings.

Dr. Ophelie Desmet

Dr. Ophelie Desmet

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Interventions for academic underachievement; social-emotional aspects of talent development; gifted education

Dr. Seongmi Lim

Dr. Seongmi Lim

Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Early childhood teacher professional development, documentation, Reggio Emilia approach, technology integration, play

Dr. Scott Dueker

Dr. Scott Dueker

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Early numeracy mathematics acquisition, culturally relevant content, virtual manipulatives usage

Dr. Andrew (Andy) Markelz

Dr. Andrew (Andy) Markelz

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Expediting the novice-to-expert teaching curve in proactive classroom management strategies and issues related to special education law.

Dr. Gerardo Ramirez

Dr. Gerardo Ramirez

Department: Teachers College
Research Area: Socio-emotional interventions for helping students to deal with anxiety, failure and enhance academic achievement.

Dr. Serena Salloum

Dr. Serena Salloum

Department: Educational Leadership
Research Area: Studying restorative practices in school settings

Dr. Cathy Siebert

Dr. Cathy Siebert

Department: Educational Studies
Research Area: To identify better ways to support preservice teacher development

Dr. Evette Simmons-Reed

Dr. Evette Simmons-Reed

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Developing flexible programming supports that higher education institutions can implement to improve access, participation, and graduation of autistic college students

Dr. Scott Hall

Dr. Scott Hall

Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Dating, mate selection, courtship, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, parenting adult children, family stress (and about anything else having to do with relationships and family).

Janet Jenkins

Janet Jenkins

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Reading Comprehension in digital versus paper platforms, including motivation.

Dr. Matthew Stuve

Dr. Matthew Stuve

Department: Educational Psychology; Research Design Studio (RDS)
Research Area: Classroom Assessment; Instructional Design; Learning Technologies; Design Thinking; Teacher Development; UX/UI/QA

Dr. Shu Su

Dr. Shu Su

Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Parenting, Cross-Culture Perspective, Social development, Children, Adolescents

Dr. Jackie Sydnor

Dr. Jackie Sydnor

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Novice teacher induction and mentoring

Dr. Susan Wilczynski

Dr. Susan Wilczynski

Department: Special Education
Research Area: My research focuses on how practitioners can be culturally responsive when providing services to their Autistic clients.

Dr. Sehyun Yun

Dr. Sehyun Yun

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Bilingual and biliteracy development of children, Elementary teacher professional development, culturally responsive pedagogy