Childhood Education
![headshot of Jennifer Gordon](/img/hi-res/directory/gordon.jpg?resolution=200)
Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Qualitative research methodology, race and social justice
- School reform initiatives including the charter movement
Community Schools
Naorah Rimkunas
Assistant Professor; Senior Director, Binghamton University Community Schools
Research Interests
Early Childhood Education
![headshot of Elizabeth M. Anderson](/img/hi-res/directory/eanders.jpg?resolution=200)
Elizabeth M. Anderson
Associate Professor
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.
Educational Foundations
![headshot of Lightning Jay](/img/hi-res/directory/ljay.jpg?resolution=200)
Lightning Jay
Assistant Professor
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.
![headshot of Pamela A. Sandoval](/img/hi-res/directory/sandoval.jpg?resolution=200)
Pamela A. Sandoval
Bartle Professor
Research Interests
- Program evaluation using both quantitative and empirical qualitative methods
Education Minor
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David Archer
Lecturer, Undergraduate Minor Coordinator
Research Interests
- Understanding what leads to individuals reaching peak performance as students and as athletes
- Skills and concepts of Leadership
Educational Leadership
![headshot of Suzanne McLeod](/img/hi-res/directory/smcleod.jpg?resolution=200)
Suzanne McLeod
Coordinator of Educational Leadership
English Education
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Matthew L. McConn
TLEL Department Chair, Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
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.
Literacy Education
![headshot of Marla H. Mallette](/img/hi-res/directory/mmallett.jpg?resolution=200)
Marla H. Mallette
Associate Professor
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
![headshot of Bogum Yoon](/img/hi-res/directory/byoon.jpg?resolution=200)
Bogum Yoon
Professor
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
![headshot of Mary J. Visser](/img/hi-res/directory/jvisser.jpg?resolution=200)
Mary J. Visser
Lecturer
Research Interests
- The role of school principals in K-12 literacy learning
Mathematics Education
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Amber Simpson
Associate Professor; Co-Assistant Director
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
Mental Health in Schools
Elizabeth Mellin
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Science Education
![headshot of Thomas P. O'Brien](/img/hi-res/directory/tobrien.jpg?resolution=200)
Thomas P. O'Brien
Professor
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
Special Education
![headshot of Loretta Mason-Williams](/img/hi-res/directory/lmason-williams.jpg?resolution=200)
Loretta Mason-Williams
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Critical quantitative research
- Issues related to the teacher supply demand and preparation of well-prepared teachers
- Equitable education
![headshot of Nicole S. Fenty](/img/hi-res/directory/nfenty.jpg?resolution=200)
Nicole S. Fenty
Associate Professor, Doctoral Program Coordinator
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
![headshot of Hyejung Kim](/img/hi-res/directory/hyejungk.jpg?resolution=200)
Hyejung Kim
Assistant Professor
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
![headshot of Tracy Lyman](/img/hi-res/directory/tlyman.jpg?resolution=200)
Tracy Lyman
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Trauma informed practices
- Social emotional learning
- Supporting inclusion for student with developmental disabilities
- Engagement with families
- Collaboration in early childhood settings
![headshot of Candace A. Mulcahy](/img/hi-res/directory/cmulcahy.jpg?resolution=200)
Candace A. Mulcahy
Associate Professor
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
Social Studies Education
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Adam Laats
Professor
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
![headshot of S. G. Grant](/img/hi-res/directory/sggrant.jpg?resolution=200)
S. G. Grant
Bartle Professor
Research Interests
- Social studies teaching and learning curriculum and assessment
- New national standards for social studies
- Curriculum and instructional model that advances inquiry-based teaching practice
TESOL
![headshot of Hoe Kyeung Kim](/img/hi-res/directory/hoekim.jpg?resolution=200)
Hoe Kyeung Kim
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Research Interests
- Teacher education and assessment
- L2 writing
- Bilingual and Multilingualism
- Korean L2 learning
- Educational technology
![headshot of Beth Clark-Gareca](/img/hi-res/directory/bclarkgareca.jpg?resolution=200)
Beth Clark-Gareca
Associate Professor
Professional Staff
![headshot of Rhonda Branca](/img/hi-res/directory/rbranca.jpg?resolution=200)
Rhonda Branca
Director of Lyceum
![headshot of Andrea N. Decker](/img/hi-res/directory/andecker.jpg?resolution=200)
Andrea N. Decker
Sr. Dir. of Academic Affairs and Clinical Partnerships
![headshot of Dina Hartung](/img/hi-res/directory/dhartung.jpg?resolution=200)
Dina Hartung
Director of the New York State Master Teacher Program
![headshot of Haley Irvine](/img/hi-res/directory/hirvine.jpg?resolution=200)
Haley Irvine
Online Academic Advisor and Clinical Field Coordinator
![headshot of Amy Humphrey](/img/hi-res/directory/humphrey.jpg?resolution=200)
Amy Humphrey
Liberty Partnership Director
![headshot of Christina Mack](/img/hi-res/directory/cmack.jpg?resolution=200)
Christina Mack
Assistant Director of Clinical Experiences
![headshot of Jo Malin](/img/hi-res/directory/jmalin.jpg?resolution=200)
Jo Malin
Educational Talent Search Project Director
![headshot of Tami V Mann](/img/hi-res/directory/tmann.jpg?resolution=200)
Tami V Mann
Admissions and Certification Advisor
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Heidi Nevgloski
Administrative Assistant;
![headshot of Kateri A Reagan](/img/hi-res/directory/kreagan.jpg?resolution=200)