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Cohort 07: Shannon Allen Research Interests: Adult Education. Right now, interested in researching CUNY’s Accelerated Studies in Associated Programs or ASAP. I am interested in learning about the successes this program has proven to be and how the adult basic education system can partner with this effort in order to help GED graduates make a successful transition into community college if they choose to do so. Strand: POL Laura Ascenzi-Moreno Research Interests: Bilingual Education, Multiple Literacies, Development of Teacher Knowledge, Community-Based Schools, & Governance Strand: AHSS Part-time teacher-mentor and curriculum coach Jeremy Benson Research Interests: Critical Pedagogy and its applicability to addiction recovery programs Strand: AHSS Currently a Musician Mitch Bleier Research Interests: How can we structure the use of formal (classrooms), informal (museums and science centers) and unstructured (parks, natural areas, city streets, etc.) learning environments to support learners as they develop and practice the skills, habits and mindsets that will enable them to take a scientific (inquiry-based) approach to making sense of their world? Strand: SMT Science educator at CCNY; science guy at the Bronx New School Karen Bonsignore Research Interests: Technology, teaching and leaning in the 21st Century topics, and teaching methodologies to improve students engagement. Strand: SMT Chairman, Health Services Administration Department Director, ePortfolio Project Erin Croke Research Interests: Higher education, adult education, P-16 issues, college/community partnerships Strand: POL Director of Program Development and Evaluation- Office of the University Dean for Health and Human Services City University of New York Gene Fellner Research Interests: the interface between social justice, ambiguity, imagination and critical thinking and how those get incorporated into literacy teaching. Strand: POL Currently a literacy consultant to the Newark Public Middle Schools and a literacy instructor at New Jersey City University. Nelson Flores Research Interests: The new small schools and how they support and/or undermine the education of immigrant students using participatory action research Strand: POL ESL teacher at Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies in the Bronx Claire Fontaine Research Interests: Efficacy of alternative pathways to teaching; Investigating feasibility of hybrid teacher-artist/teacher-researcher/teacher-writer/teacher-administrator models as way to improve retention; Educational applications of web 2.0; Oral histories Strand: POL Scott Gallagher Research Interests: history of education, the comparative benefits of coeducational classes vs. single-gender classes. Strand: SMT Noah Golden Research Interests: Teacher support for Critical Literacy Education, which may include teacher education, curricular templates, ongoing participatory action research, inquiry groups and mentoring/support structures Strand: AHSS * English teacher, Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy High Greta Hawkins Research Interests: the widening education achievement gap between Whites and Blacks, and the attitudinal differences of Blacks, primarily African American males with labeled disabilities, and Whites toward education largely account for the ineffectiveness of solutions already implemented. I want to investigate how the attitudes of both groups have an impact on one another, essentially pushing members of one group to greater attainment of education and members of the other to educational ruination. Strand: POL M.S. 113, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Kara Hudon Research Interests: Math curriculum in the high schools, and whether it is appropriate as is, if it is helping or hurting our students, and if it is preparing them for what they will need in college and their future careers. I am also leaning towards a technology aspect of the curriculum as well. Strand: SMT Math teacher at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY Chris Johnson Research Interests: The impact of conservative and corporate philanthropy on public education at the K-12 level, particularly via charter schools. Strand POL Director of Sponsored Programs at Queensborough Community College Dorota Koczewska Research Interests: Preparing special education students in middle and high schools for independent learning (concentration in Mathematics) through co-generative dialogue Strand: SMT Director of Mathematics - District 75 Citywide Program Rachel Lambert Research Interests: Critical Special Education, Special Education Policy, Constructivist and Socio-cultural Mathematics Education, Progressive Schools Strand: SMT & POL Reynaldo "Rey" Llena Research Interests: Exploring Emotions, Co-generative Dialogue and Strand: SMT * Regents Chemistry Teacher- Marie Curie High School (Bronx) Jacqui Lubitz Research Interests: How can school communities/classrooms teach students to be agents of change? The pros and cons of producing students as agents of change and how can some ideas be incorporated into regular education or special education programs? What obstacles does such a goal face? Strand: AHSS Roland Lucas Research Interests: Multicultural Education, Science and Math curriculum enhancements utilizing technology for both learning and delivery; micro and macro policy factors driving inequalities in urban education; organizing for equality in urban education. Strand: SMT High School Math Teacher Edwin Mayorga Research Interests: Developing a spectrum for understanding forms of teacher-activism, community organizing and social movements; social justice education/curricula; and youth political socialization Stand: POL and AHSS Formerly an elementary school teacher in New York City; Currently an instructor and intern supervisor at Hunter College and NYU Steinhardt School of Education; Member of the New York Collective of Radical Educators (www.nycore.org) Denise McNamara Research Interests: Science Education Policies. Well my first inclination was to study teacher certification changes vs. curricula changes - for instance, science teachers must be certified in a specific content area now (Chemistry for instance) but the trend in the middle schools is to spiral science (all content on each grade level) - what are the implications when these two policies are implemented in tandem? Strand: POL Secondary Science Instructional Specialist - NYC Department of Education Dayna Navaro Research Interests: Special Education Strand: AHSS Special Education teacher at a public school in Brooklyn, teaching math and science to 7th grade students Cristian Solorza Research Interests: Equity issues & policy in urban education; dual language and ESL pedagogy; dialects in the classroom; translanguaging/hybrid language practices; healthy development of our emergent bilinguals; teacher leadership; role of the school administrator in the urban public school Strand: POL Lecturer and advisor, Dual Language/Special Education Programs, Bank Street College of Education Marcos Stafne Research Interests: Informal Learning through the use of Spectacle and Immersive Environments Strand: AHSS Director, Public Programs & Traveling Exhibitions - New York Hall of Science Miriam Tager Research Interests: Access to Early Childhood Education Strand: POL Director of a preschool in NYC Zoila Tazi Research Interests: Early childhood education and its impact on eradicating the achievement gap for Latino immigrant students. Ultimately the connection I hope to make with the research is to express policy implications for school districts serving immigrant populations Strand: POL Principal - Roosevelt School - Ossining UFSD www.ossiningufsd.org Judy Touzin Research Interests: Urban males and their approach to schools and schooling/ urban schools and their approach to urban males (with a focus on males who have low socioeconomic status) and how these approaches relate to academic achievement; school leadership and how it relates to teacher retention/attrition Stand: AHSS Currently a 3rd grade teacher in Harlem (District 5). Mark Wolfmeyer Research Interests: History of math education in US schooling; culture and teacher/student identity in math classrooms; the philanthropy and politics affecting educational policy; alternative educational spaces/movements Strand: SMT Current Job: Mathematics Educator Jennie Yi Research Interests: Asian American student engagement and achievement in schools. Strand AHSS Teacher- High School Social Studies. Taught at BN Cardozo HS in Bayside from Sept 1993 to June 2007. Currently at Great Neck South High School
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