Mentor: Carol Sue Englert

Program: Special Education

Department: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Interests: interaction of actors, texts, and contexts in classrooms for students with disabilities

Mentor: David Pearson, Susan Florio-Ruane, Punya Mishra

Program: Educational Psychology

Department: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Interests: life-long learning and educational uses of technology

Mentor: Susan Florio-Ruane

Program: Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy

Department: Teacher Education

Interests: pedagogy of teachers doing cross-cultural teaching in Israel

Mentor: David Pimm, Jack Smith

Program: Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy

Department: Teacher Education

Interests: discourse in math ed classrooms under different pedagogies

Mentor: David Pearson

Program: Educational Psychology

Department: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Interests: models of teacher learning as shown through uses of technology

Mentor: Suzanne Wilson, Jack Schwille

Program: Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy

Department: Teacher Education

Interests: accountability and professional autonomy in reforms aimed at professional development of teachers

Mentor: David Pearson, Laura Apol

Program: Educational Psychology

Department: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Interests: teenage mothers’ exploration of their own literacy and the impact on their children’s literacy

Mentor: Patricia Edwards

Program: Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy

Department: Teacher Education

Interests: literacy experiences of black children at church and in school, a look at differences in culture, teaching, and learning

Mentor: David Wong

Program: Educational Psychology

Department: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Interests: female students in science, a clash between their images of a career in science and their ideals for this work

Mentor: David Labaree, David Pearson

Program: Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy

Department: Teacher Education

Interests: the clash between school and family culture for female Arab-American students

Mentor: Yong Zhao, David Plank

Program: Educational Psychology

Department: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Interests: the inverse relationship between mechanical computer anxiety and existential computer anxiety

Mentor: Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Helen Featherstone

Program: Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy

Department: Teacher Education

Interests: learning community for teachers – exploring a group of elementary teachers who talk about teaching writing