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Director, Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates
Associate Professor-in-Residence
Office of Teacher Education
Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook Rd, Unit 2064
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-1903; 570-9283
Email: michael.alfano@uconn.edu |
Michael Alfano has a doctorate in Educational Psychology with a specialty in Special Education, from the University of Connecticut. He is presently the Director of the Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates at NEAG. |
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Associate Vice Provost
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Neag School of Education and
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Center for Undergraduate Education
368 Fairfield Road, Unit 2142
Storrs , CT 06269-2142
Phone: 860-486-2686
Fax: 860-486-5724
Email: keith.barker@uconn.edu |
Dr. Barker has been an engineering educator throughout his academic life. From early beginnings he taught faculty to teach with technology at the University of Sheffield in 1969 and created computer-based assessments in his digital logic class. In the early 90's he developed a web-based online delivery system before WebCT was published and took part in several national programs for innovative computer science education. He is nationally known for his work in computer science accreditation. As reflected in his numerous publication and awards, Dr. Barker is viewed as an outstanding teacher, a strong proponent of excellent teaching, a dedicated mentor and faculty supporter, and one who believes in the importance of undergraduate education.
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Committee Chair
Department of Political Science
Box U-24 University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Telephone: 860-486-3156
Fax: 860-486-8307
E-mail: boyer@uconnvm.uconn.edu
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Mark A. Boyer, co-chair of the TNE Curriculum Reform Team, is a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and Co-Director of the GlobalEd Project (www.globaled.uconn.edu). He holds a B.A. from Wittenberg University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland. His research and teaching interests focus on international cooperation, political economy, negotiation and conflict resolution, experimental and simulation methods and foreign policy analysis. He is the 2004 recipient of the UConn Alumni Association’s Award for the Excellence in Teaching at the Graduate Level. He was also the recipient of the 2001 UConn Chancellor’s Information Technology Award and the 2000 APSA Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovation in the Teaching of Political Science. He is author of International Cooperation and Public Goods (Johns Hopkins, 1993), co-author of Defensive Internationalism (University of Michigan Press, 2004), co-author of Negotiating a Complex World, 2 nd ed (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), co-author of International Politics on the World Stage, Brief 6 th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2005), and co-author of American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process, 6 th ed (Thomson Wadsworth, 2005). He has also published numerous book chapters and articles in such journals as the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Political Economy, International Journal, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Instructional Science, and Social Science Computer Review, among others. He was the founding editor (2000-2004) of the journal International Studies Perspectives, a journal of the International Studies Association. Dr. Boyer's Vita (pdf) |
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Department of Mathematics
Math Sciences Building Unit 3009
Storrs, CT 06269-4120
Phone: 860-486-3442
Email: cardetti@math.uconn.edu |
Fabiana Cardetti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University in 2002. Her research interests are in geometric control theory, mathematical biology, as well as in mathematics education for K-12 teachers. As a member of the TNE team, Dr. Cardetti will be investigating the development and assessment of instructional strategies to improve the mathematics content knowledge of prospective teachers. She teaches the mathematics content courses for elementary education pre-teachers and has provided assistance to practicing teachers through professional development programs.
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Associate Dean, Neag School of Education
Dean's Office Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2064
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: (860) 486-3815
Fax: (860) 486-0210
Email: tom.defranco@uconn.edu
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Curriculum and Instruction
Gentry - 244
Phone: 860-486-2433
Fax: 860-486-0210
Email: mary.doyle@uconn.edu |
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Department of Animal Science
Associate Dean of Academic Programs, CANR
Director, Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture
Email: Cameron.Faustman@uconn.edu |
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Connecticut State Department of Education
Education Manager
Phone: 860-713-6831
Email: catherine.natale@po.state.ct.us |
| Dr. Catherine Fisk Natale is currently the Acting Bureau Chief for the Bureau of Educator Assessment and co-director of the Connecticut SAELP Project. She joined the Department in 1987 and has worked primarily on the development, validation and administration of teacher performance assessments and a state-wide teacher induction initiative (the Beginning Educator Support and Training [BEST] Program). The BEST Program is a nationally recognized teacher induction program which provides mentors to all beginning teachers and assesses teachers for licensure through a portfolio assessment process. In addition, she has coordinated state education policy development with the Connecticut Department of Education as well as served as chief author of numerous Department policy documents. She served as assistant to the Commissioner for the 1996 and 1997 Governor's Education Summits and represented Governor John Rowland's office for the National Education Goals Panel in 1995-96. Prior to joining the Connecticut State Department of Education, she worked as a financial manager at Aetna Life and Casualty. |
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Department of Nutritional Sciences
Horsebarn Road Extension
University of Connecticut, Unit 4017 3624
Storrs, CT 06269-4017
Telephone: (860) 486-1704
Fax: (860) 486-3674
E-Mail: hedley.freake@uconn.edu
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Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Neag School of Education
University of Connecticut
249 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT 06269-2033
Phone: (860) 486-0246
E-mail: wendy.glenn@uconn.edu
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Wendy J. Glenn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut . In her role as coordinator of English Education, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the theories and methods of teaching language, literature, and composition. She is the author of Sarah Dessen: From Burritos to Box Office ( Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 2005) and Presenting Richard Peck ( Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, Forthcoming) and co-editor of Portrait of a Profession: Teachers and Teaching in the 21 st Century ( Westport , CT : Praeger, 2005). She has published articles in The ALAN Review, English Journal, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, SIGNAL , Teacher Education Quarterly, and Peremena/Thinking Classroom . Her authored book chapters appear in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, Vol. II ( Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 2002), Beyond the Boundaries: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Teaching and Learning ( Westport , CT : Praeger, 2003), Boys, Girls, and the Myths of Literacies/Learning (Canadian Scholars Press, In Press), and Interdisciplinary Assessment ( Westport , CT : Praeger, In Press). She currently serves on the editorial review boards of The ALAN Review and the Journal of Literacy Research , has been elected to the ALAN Executive Board Member, and was selected as a section editor for the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Glenn's Vita (.doc) |
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Associate Vice Provost
Director of the Honors Program
Center for Undergraduate Education
Unit 2147
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-6786
Email: lynn.goodstein@uconn.edu |
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Department of Educational Leadership
249 Glenbrook Rd. Unit 2093
Storrs, CT 06269-2093
Gentry - 438
Phone: 860-486-9201
Fax: 860-486-4028
Email: robin.grenier@uconn.edu
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Robin S. Grenier, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of adult learning in the Department of Educational Leadership, in the Adult Learning Program at the University of Connecticut. She is also a Teahcers for a New Era (TNE) Fellow. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia and has worked as a high school English teacher and a training and educational consultant for school districts and non-profit organizations. Her research interests include: expertise development, informal and experiential learning, museums as sources of adult learning, and qualitative inquiry. Away from UCONN Robin enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter exploring the wonders of New England.
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Professor Douglas S. Hamilton
Department of Physics
2152 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3046
Tel: 860-486-4914 (office) 860-486-3856 (lab)
Fax: 860-486-3346
Email: douglas.hamilton@uconn.edu
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Hartford Public Schools
Email: shidooninga@yahoo.com |
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Department of Educational Leadership
249 Glenbrook Road Unit - 2093, Room 126
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-0248
Fax: 860-486-1367
Email: MARIJKE.KEHRHAHN@uconn.edu |
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Teachers for a New Era
249 Glenbrook Road Unit-2064
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2064
Gentry Room 231
Phone: 860-486-1407
Fax: 860-486-1367
Email: d.maneggia@uconn.edu |
| Donalyn Maneggia is the Program Assistant for the TNE Project. Donalyn graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University with a B.A. in Business Administration and a minor in Economics. |
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Professor and Section Head, Adult Learning
Phone: (860) 486-2738
Fax: (860)486-4028
Email: barry.sheckley@uconn.edu |
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Department of English
215 Glenbrook Road, Unit-4025
Storrs, CT 06269-4025
Phone: 860-486-4048
Email: Capshaw@uconn.edu
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An Associate Professor of English, Katharine Capshaw Smith teaches courses in children's literature, young adult literature, and African American literature. Her monograph , Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance , won the 2006 award for best scholarly book from the Children ' s Literature Association. She also researches Caribbean children ' s literature and culture . She is at work on a book on children ' s literature and cultural nationalism during the American " Black Arts " movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Department of Educational Psychology
249 Glenbrook Road Unit-2064
Phone: (860) 807-2034
Email: JEROME.SPEARS@uconn.edu |
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Department of Educational Psychology
249 Glenbrook Rd, Unit 2064, Room 336
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-3651
Email: hariharan.swaminathan@uconn.edu
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages
337 Mansfield Road, Arjona, Room 208
Storrs, CT 06269-1057
Phone: 860-486-3317
Fax: 860-486-4392
Email: manuela.m.wagner@uconn.edu |
Manuela Wagner is Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at UCONN. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Graz in Austria . During her graduate studies she spent 2 years in the baby lab of Psychophysics in the department of Neurophysiology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main, Germany , and 3 years in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include pragmatic development in first, second and foreign language acquisition, methods of foreign language teaching, intercultural communication and communicative development in special circumstances. In her role as the director of the Critical Languages Program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages she finds it interesting to apply current methods of foreign language education in a program of less commonly taught languages.
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Committee Co-Chair
Neag School of Education
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2033
Unit 2064
Phone: 860-486-8924
Fax: 860-486-0280
Email: thomas.weinland@uconn.edu |
Thomas P. Weinland is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education, serving the last six years as head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. A graduate of Williams College with a major in history, Tim holds a Master’s degree from Harvard and a Doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught six years and served as social studies department head at Huntington High School (NY) before joining the faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1969. At UConn, Tim has been a leader in the effort to reform teacher education, presiding over changes in the teacher preparation program that have helped lead to national recognition for UConn’s programs in elementary and secondary education. Active in the wider university community, he served as Chairman of the University Senate and President of the UConn chapter of AAUP. Tim’s scholarly activity included publications of or in ten books and thirty-one articles with an emphasis on history and social studies curriculum development. He has been a frequent consultant to school systems, museums and the state of Connecticut, working on social studies curriculum and teaching standards. Tim has had a long association with international education activity including serving as adjunct professor at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, coordinating a Neag School of Education study-abroad program in inner-city London, and presenting papers or workshops at conferences and universities in Venezuela, Thailand, Australia and several European countries. Since retirement Tim has taken on several university-related responsibilities including a UConn partnership with the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and a human rights curriculum project with the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. His current role with the TNE Project is chair of the Induction Committee. Dr. Weinland's Vita (pdf) |
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