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Michael Alfano	Keith Barker	Mark Boyer	Scott W. Brown
Fabiana Cardetti	Thomas Defranco	Michael Dintenfass	Mary Anne Doyle
Cameron Faustman	Katie Natalie Fisk	Hedley Freake	Wendy Glenn
Lynn Goodstein	Robin Grenier	Douglas Hamilton	Sandra Inga
Jason Irizarry	Marijke Kehrhahn	Donalyn Maneggia	Barry Sheckley
Kate Capshaw Smith	Jerome Spears	Hariharan Swaminathan	Manuela Wagner
Thomas Weinland	Cathy Zhang

Last updated: Sept 27, 2007

Michael Alfano
	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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Keith Barker
	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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Mark Boyer
	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 Personal Web Site
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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Scott W. Brown
	Project Director Teachers for a New Era 249 Glenbrook Road Unit-2064 University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2064 Gentry Room 233 Phone: 860-486-0181 Fax: 860-486-8325 Email: scott.brown@uconn.edu Personal Web Site
Dr. Scott W. Brown is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.A. in psychology from Boston University, his M.S in psychology from Montana State University, and his Ph.D. in psychology from Syracuse University. He has published three books/monographs on issues related to educational psychology, and published over 90 refereed journal articles and book chapters in the field of educational psychology, educational technology, learning and cognition. He has presented over 200 papers at professional conferences. He has been a visiting professor at Utah State University and Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand). In over 20 years of service at the University of Connecticut he has held positions as the Director of the Bureau of Educational Research and Service, and the department head for Educational Psychology. He has been awarded over $7.0 million in federal, state and private grants. Dr. Brown' s Vita (.doc)
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Fabiana Cardetti
	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. Dr. Cardetti's Vita (pdf)
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Thomas C. DeFranco
	Thomas C. DeFranco 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 Neag School of Education website
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Michael Dintenfass
	Department of History 241 Glenbrook Rd., Unit-2103 Storrs, CT 06269-2103 Phone: 860-486-2711 Email: michael.dintenfass@uconn.edu
Michael Dintenfass is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. He wrote extensively on British economic and business history for many years and on the philosophy of history. He now concentrates his intellectual energies on the study of the existential and ethical discourses of the West from the ancient world to the present. For over a decade Professor Dintenfass has been developing a skills-intensive approach to teaching history as one of the humanistic disciplines anchored by a tradition of great books. Dr. Dintenfass' Vita (pdf)
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Doyle Mary Anne
	Curriculum and Instruction Gentry - 244 Phone: 860-486-2433 Fax: 860-486-0210 Email: mary.doyle@uconn.edu
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Cameron Faustman
	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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Catherine Natale Fisk
	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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Hedley C Freake
	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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Wendy Glenn
	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

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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Lynn Goodstein
	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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Robin Grenier
	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
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. Dr. Grenier 's Vita (.doc)
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Hamilton Douglas
	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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Sandra Inga
	Hartford Public Schools Email: shidooninga@yahoo.com
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Jason Irizarry
	Department of Curriculum & Instruction Gentry Building Unit 2064, Room 240A Storrs, CT 06269-4120 Phone: 860-486-9523 Email: jason.irizarry@uconn.edu
Jason G. Irizarry is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Neag School of Education of Education at the University of Connecticut . A former middle school teacher in New York City , he has most recently worked as a Postdoctoral fellow with the Teachers for a New Era (TNE) Project- a grant funded program designed to enhance teacher preparation, particularly as a means to improving pupil achievement in K-12 settings . Prior to his arrival at the University of Connecticut, he was the Director of Project SPIRIT (Springfield Partnership to Improve the Recruitment of Inspiring Minority Teachers), a college-community collaboration aimed at increasing the number of teachers of color in urban schools. He received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005 and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, philosophy of education, culturally responsive curriculum development, and urban education. His research focuses on urban teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention with an emphasis on increasing the number of teachers of color. Additional areas of interest include culturally responsive pedagogy, urban youth culture, and Latino students in U.S. schools. Dr. Irizarry's Vita (pdf)
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Marijke Kehrhahn
	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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Donalyn Maneggia
	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: 860-486-3510 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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Barry Sheckley
	Professor and Section Head, Adult Learning Phone: (860) 486-2738 Fax: (860)486-4028 Email: barry.sheckley@uconn.edu
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Katharine Capshaw Smith
	Department of English 215 Glenbrook Road, Unit-4025 Storrs, CT 06269-4025 Phone: 860-486-4048 Email: Capshaw@uconn.edu
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. Dr. Capshaw Smith's Vita (.doc)
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Jerome Spears
	Department of Educational Psychology 249 Glenbrook Road Unit-2064 Phone: (860) 807-2034 Email: JEROME.SPEARS@uconn.edu
Dr. Spears's Vita (pdf)
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Hariharan Swaminathan
	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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Manuela Wagner
	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. Dr. Wagner's Vita (.doc)
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Thomas Weinland
	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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Huiying (Cathy) Zhang
	Teachers for a New Era 249 Glenbrook Road Unit-2064 University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2064 Gentry Room 229 Phone: 860-486-2913 Fax: 860-486-3510 E-mail: cathy.zhang@uconn.edu
Huiying (Cathy) Zhang received her B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and her M.S. in Computational Science from Radford University in Virginia. She worked as a database programmer for Virginia Economic Bridge from 1999 to 2000, and worked as a Programmer/Analyst for Educational Financial Services Inc. from 2001 to 2002. She is currently the Database Coordinator for TNE. Cathy' s Vita (pdf)
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