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Cohort 08:

Maria Akinyele (No information submitted)
Strand: SMT

Belinda Amoako
Academy Director, Harriet Tubman Charter School

Research Interests: culturally responsive teaching in mathematics; using photography as a visual aide; mathematics in special education classrooms

Strand: SMT

Tara Bahl
Research and Data Analyst at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Research Interests: The ways and places youth civic identity is built in urban communities, both within schools and in institutions outside schools; discipline and security practices in urban high schools; the school-to-prison pipeline

Strand: POL

Amanda Bickerstaff
Graduate Assistant, NSF funded research grant (AMNH is the grant partner) with Yael Wyner, City College working on a new curriculum called "Disrupted Ecology"; Project Manager for U.S. Satellite Laboratory, Inc. a science educational company that works with NASA, NSF, and NOAA to create curricular products and teacher preparation programs

Research Interests: teaching of evolutionary biology to both educators and students; I am also interested in indigenous knowledge and how it impacts science teaching and learning.

Strand: POL

Dale Britton
ESL Teacher

Research Interests: I want to explore using technology to enhance, promote bilingualism and the development of academic English among English language learners. I am also interested in using technology to close or reduce the achievement gap/divide between underperforming minorities (blacks and latinos) and Asians and White

Strand: AHSS

Amy DeFelice
Teacher of Science at Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment High School

Research Interests: Environmental education and science education in urban schools

Strand: SMT

Rachel Ehrlich
Ethics and Social Justice Education teacher at the Fieldston School in Bronx, NY; Diversity and Social Justice Education Consultation to NYC Schools

Research Interests: Social Justice Education; Impact of Immigration/Border Policy on Classroom Instruction/Pedagogy; Labor History and Immigrant Education; English Only Policy and Impact

Strand: POL

Al-Karim Gangji (No information was submitted)
Strand: SMT

Argos Gonzalez
English teacher and advisor

Research Interests: Multicultural curriculum development; using the arts to explore identity of urban youth

Strand: POL

Charles Haitz
Reading specialist with Half Hollow Hills School District

Research Interests: issues related to gifted and learning disabled students

Strand: POL

Laura Kaplan
ESL professor at Hostos and Bronx Community Colleges

Research Interests: Teaching English to low-literacy L1 students; the effect of integration on student achievement; addressing funding inequalities in public schools

Strand: POL

Nancy Lin
Director of Technology

Research Interests: math instructional technologies; teacher PD integrating technology into curriculum; digital natives-emotional desensitivity connection

Strand: SMT

Amber Pabon
Adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College, research assistant with the University of Michigan

Research Interests: Cultural competency in teacher education, student/teaching narratives as a tool for developing reflective, transformative pedagogies
Strand: POL

Pieranna Pieroni
Brooklyn College Now Program director

Research Interests: High school-to-college transition; environmental education and civic engagement; school gardens and food politics

Strand: POL

Alejandra Maria Varela
Adjunct professor at Hunter College; High school ESL teacher; previous teacher of grades k-6

Research Interests: Adaptation of different immigrant groups to the American educational system; paradoxical relationship(s) between culture, aspirations, educational and occupational achievements with the added variables of immigration status, age of arrival, and gender

Strand: POL

Marianne Williams
Science Department Chairperson at Channel View School for Research; Adjunct Instructor at Queensborough Community College, Department of Biology

Research Interests: project-based learning and interactive technology to improve classroom instruction

Strand: SMT

Heather Homonoff Woodley
Adjunct lecturer in TESOL Bilingual education, CCNY

Research Interests: Arab-American students; arts education; popular culture in the classroom

Strand: AHSS