School of Training Welcomes New School
The College of Maryland School of Training welcomes a various cohort of recent college members for the 2022-2023 educational 12 months. These students and educators deliver a wealth of information and expertise in a variety of matters and can contribute enormously to the school’s numerous and dynamic neighborhood.
Meet the school’s latest college members:
Division of Counseling, Greater Training, and Particular Training (CHSE)
Angeliki Altani, Postdoctoral Affiliate
Analysis Pursuits: Altani’s analysis facilities on the cognitive mechanisms concerned in studying fluency and comprehension effectivity throughout growth. She has in depth expertise conducting school-based analysis utilizing eye-tracking and experimental behavioral design. Her present work within the Studying, Engagement, and Range (READ) Lab consists of learning the position of govt capabilities and linguistic elements in studying comprehension growth amongst bilingual youngsters.
Biography: Earlier than becoming a member of the College of Maryland, Altani labored as a postdoctoral researcher on the College of Oslo, Norway. She earned a Ph.D. in instructional psychology from the College of Alberta, Canada, and a MSc in cognitive science and a B.A. in linguistics from the College of Athens, Greece.
Colby Beré ’22, Consumption Specialist, Maryland State Division of Training Division of Rehabilitation Companies Pre-Employment Transition Companies Consumption Unit
Biography: As an undergraduate scholar on the College of Maryland, Beré served as a tutorial lead peer mentor with the TerpsEXCEED program throughout its pilot 12 months. She holds a B.A in psychology from UMD.
Mary Pat Dye, School Specialist
Biography: Dye has spent over 35 years main the Transition Connections Academy, a collective of 5 school-to-work transition applications in Carroll County for college kids ages 18 to 21. She beforehand served as a coordinator for Carroll County, offering skilled growth and assist for all features of Secondary Transition. She has additionally supplied management for a number of Carroll County initiatives designed to advertise put up college success and enhance school and profession readiness for youth with disabilities, together with the Maryland Seamless Transition Collaborative, Maryland PROMISE, and Way2Work. She acquired an administrative certificates from Towson College, a M.S. from The Johns Hopkins College, and a B.S. in training from Millersville College.
Beatrice Hammett ’22, School Assistant, Middle for Transition and Profession Innovation
Biography: As an undergraduate on the College of Maryland, Hammett held positions as a resident assistant within the Division of Resident Life and an administrative assistant on the Institute for Bodily Science and Expertise. She additionally labored with the primary cohort of TerpsEXCEED college students as a lead peer mentor. Hammett earned her bachelor’s diploma in neighborhood well being with minors in disabilities research {and professional} writing from the College of Maryland.
Veronica Kang, Assistant Professor, Particular Training
Analysis Pursuits: Kang’s analysis is concentrated on family-led, naturalistic, and culturally tailored instruction to assist language and social communication growth in early intervention and early childhood training. Kang has labored with youngsters from underrepresented backgrounds, together with immigrant households, who’ve autism, language delays, Down syndrome, and different developmental delays.
Biography: Along with her position as an assistant professor, Kang is a board-certified conduct analyst. She beforehand labored with autistic college students and their households as a conduct interventionist in university-based clinics, faculties, and households’ properties in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Ph.D. in particular training from the College of Illinois Chicago.
Jeongeun Kim, Affiliate Professor, Greater Training
Analysis Pursuits: Kim’s analysis focuses on how establishments of upper training use their autonomy to prepare methods for income technology and useful resource allocation to stay aggressive. Her analysis examines how insurance policies associated to the financing of postsecondary training have an effect on entry, affordability, and high quality. Her analysis additionally addresses how modifications in organizational insurance policies and practices can influence stakeholders, together with college students and college.
Alexandra Kuvaeva Ph.D. ’19, Postdoctoral Affiliate
Analysis Pursuits: Kuvaeva has over 10 years of expertise in analysis, quantitative and qualitative knowledge assortment and evaluation, measurement, statistics and analysis.
Biography: Kuvaeva gained hands-on expertise conducting analysis within the International Analysis Division at IB International Centre, Washington DC. As a graduate analysis assistant on the College of Maryland, she labored for the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence, a campus-wide initiative that helps the retention and development of ladies college in STEM. Her graduate work deepened her curiosity in larger training insurance policies and practices and formed her profession trajectory as a researcher specializing in points affecting college careers. She holds an M.A. in training management and coverage research as a Fulbright Program participant and a Ph.D. in worldwide training coverage from the College of Maryland.
Mercedes Peterman, Consumption Specialist, Middle for Transition and Profession Innovation
Biography: Peterman is obsessed with serving to people with disabilities achieve entry to the assist and providers they should acquire independence and financial self-sufficiency. She has a number of years of expertise working with youth with psychological well being issues and offering addictions counseling providers to adults. She beforehand served as a human assets generalist at Phillips Company, and labored for the Maryland State Division of Training Division of Rehabilitation for six years, delivering vocational rehabilitation providers to youth and adults with disabilities throughout the state of Maryland. She has a M.A in counseling from The Johns Hopkins College and a B.A. in psychology from St. Mary’s School of Maryland.
Awilda Rodriguez, Affiliate Professor
Analysis Pursuits: Rodriguez’s analysis is on the intersection of upper training coverage, school entry and selection, and the illustration of Black, Latinx, low-income and first-generation college students in postsecondary training. One in all her most up-to-date tasks examines inequitable entry to rigorous highschool coursework.
Biography: Rodriguez was named a 2017 William T. Grant Scholar, and together with many coverage stories and contributions to edited volumes, her work has been printed in Analysis in Greater Training, The Evaluation of Greater Training, The Journal of Greater Training, Numerous Points in Greater Training, and The Chronicle of Greater Training. She acquired her doctorate from the College of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Faculty of Training and beforehand labored as a analysis fellow at American Enterprise Institute’s Middle for Greater Training Reform and as a analysis affiliate at The Nationwide Middle for Public Coverage and Greater Training.
Elizabeth Tornquist M.A. ’97, School Specialist, Middle for Transition and Profession Innovation
Biography: Tornquist spent 9 years as a transition specialist, working in two college districts within the D.C. space. She turned a postdoctoral analysis fellow on the College of Maryland earlier than becoming a member of the college within the School of Training the place she was a grant coordinator, college supervisor {and professional} growth college coordinator. Earlier than returning to the College this summer season, she spent 9 years because the secondary transition challenge supervisor for the Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Training. Tornquist acquired a Ph.D. in particular training from George Mason College, an M.A. in secondary/transition particular training from the College of Maryland and a B.A. in particular training from the College of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Taylor Woodman Ph.D. ’19, Assistant Medical Professor, Worldwide Training Coverage
Analysis Pursuits: Woodman is a essential internationalization scholar that makes use of his analysis, instructing, and observe to problem dominant assumptions of worldwide training change. His analysis pursuits embrace international studying, educational diplomacy, internationalization of upper training, digital internationalization, qualitative methodology, and Cuban training.
Biography: Woodman has taught undergraduate and graduate programs for the final decade at establishments within the D.C. space. Along with his analysis and instructing, he has nearly 15 years of expertise as an administrator in worldwide training programming on school campuses. He at the moment has a joint appointment with the Workplace of Worldwide Affairs the place he serves because the affiliate director for International School Studying. Woodman leads the School’s research overseas fieldwork program, which has taken over 100 UMD college students to Cuba. He at the moment serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Worldwide College students and Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Research Overseas. Outdoors of the college, he enjoys street tripping to discover the cultural communities throughout the U.S. and serving the D.C. neighborhood as a useful resource guardian for D.C. foster youth. Woodman holds a Ph.D. in worldwide training coverage from the College of Maryland, an M.A. in instructional management and coverage research and a B.A. in public and concrete affairs from Virginia Tech.
Division of Human Improvement and Quantitative Methodology (HDQM)
Chantel Alexander, Neighborhood Analysis Affiliate
Analysis Pursuits: Alexander is within the influence of opposed childhood experiences on growth and conduct amongst people that reside in city settings.
Biography: Alexander acquired her MSW on the College of Maryland, Baltimore’s Faculty of Social Work the place she targeted on Medical Social Work with Households and Kids. As Alexander emerges into the sector of social work, she brings together with her a plethora of experiences as a center and highschool educator in New Jersey and Maryland.
Danielle Burns, Neighborhood Analysis Assistant
Analysis Pursuits: Burns’ analysis pursuits deal with youngsters’s neurodevelopment and the potential results of genetic, environmental, or socioeconomic elements.
Biography: A Prince George’s County native, Burns acquired her MPH from George Washington College and her B.S. in well being sciences from Pennsylvania West College (beforehand California College of Pennsylvania).
Rachel Romeo, Assistant Professor
Analysis Pursuits: Romeo makes use of interdisciplinary strategies from training, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience (structural and useful mind imaging) to review how the growing mind adapts to various environments and the way this results in distinctive developmental paths for youngsters.
Biography: Romeo directs the Language, Expertise, and Improvement (LEAD) lab on the School and in addition holds a courtesy appointment within the Division of Listening to and Speech Sciences and the interdisciplinary program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. Romeo acquired her Ph.D. from the joint Harvard/MIT Program in Speech and Listening to Bioscience and Expertise, her scientific licensure in Speech-Language Pathology from the MGH Institute of Well being Professions, and accomplished the Translational Postdoctoral Coaching in Neurodevelopment program at Boston Kids’s Hospital and Harvard Medical Faculty.
Olga Walker, Lecturer and Internship Coordinator
Biography: Walker acquired her Ph.D. in utilized developmental psychology from the College of Miami and accomplished a postdoctoral analysis place on the College of Maryland.
Heather Carnaghan, School Specialist
Frieda Greenthal, School Assistant
Division of Educating and Studying, Coverage and Management (TLPL)
Shannon Kane, Assistant Medical Professor
Analysis Pursuits: Kane’s analysis pursuits embrace literacy pedagogies, the affect of instructor identification on pedagogy, and instructor voice in understanding the relationships between concept and observe. Her work is concentrated on working with academics to discover literacy practices and the evaluation of these practices in school rooms in an effort to steadiness the essential relationship between concept and observe. Her work additionally explores how identification and private studying form literacy practices and studying within the classroom for each academics and college students.
Biography: Kane started her profession working in worldwide growth, specializing in ladies and training, earlier than becoming a member of the inaugural cohort of DC Educating Fellows. Since then, Kane has been a classroom instructor in public and public constitution faculties in Washington D.C. She has additionally labored as an tutorial coach, curriculum author, literacy marketing consultant, college principal, and adjunct professor. She holds an Ed.D in studying, writing, and literacy from the College of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in worldwide affairs from George Washington College, and a B.A. in world politics and trendy languages from the Catholic College of America. She additionally earned a TESOL/Bilingual elementary training certificates from American College.
Rossina Zamora Liu, Assistant Professor, City Training Specialization
Analysis Pursuits: Liu’s analysis interrogates techniques of white supremacy and anti-Blackness in training, employs counter-storytelling, and cultivates cross-racial solidarity and coalition constructing amongst.
Biography: Liu is a 1.5-generation, multi-ethnic Asian American girl and a non-Black Essential Race educator and scholar. She has labored with artists, film-makers, and b-boys of Coloration on community-based tasks, first-generation school student-athletes, center/high-school college students in city/rural communities, and veterans at homeless shelters, the Veterans Affairs Medical Middle, and neighborhood settings. She is co-author of Techniques of White Supremacy and White Privilege: A Racial-Spatial Framework for Psychology, co-author of Understanding Systemic Racism: Anti-Blackness, White Supremacy, Racial Capitalism, and the Re/Creation of White House and Time, and visitor co-editor of two journal particular points on anti Blackness in training and Black/Latinx youth futurity. Liu holds a Ph.D. and MFA from the College of Iowa.
Laura Mahalingappa, Affiliate Professor
Analysis Pursuits: Mahalingappa’s analysis focuses on linguistically responsive instruction for academics, and extra particularly, infusing essential language consciousness and significant language pedagogies into instructor preparation coursework.
Biography: Mahalingappa has printed extensively on points associated to language acquisition and instructor preparation for linguistically and culturally numerous learners. She just lately printed “Supporting Muslim college students: A information to understanding the varied problems with at present’s classroom” and an edited quantity on worldwide English instructor training, “Preparation of Academics of English as an Further Language (EAL) across the World: Analysis, Coverage, Curriculum, and Follow.” She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and M.A. in linguistics from the College of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in worldwide research from American College.
Farhaana Nyamekye-Frazier Ph.D. ’10, Medical Assistant Professor
Analysis Pursuits: Nyamekye-Frazier’s analysis pursuits lie in fairness and variety in arithmetic training and the intersections of racial and arithmetic identification.
Biography: Over the previous 15 years, Nyamekye-Frazier has taught at Montgomery School, Trinity Washington College, College of Maryland International Campus, the School of Southern Maryland, and Prince George’s Neighborhood School. In her position as PDS coordinator, Nyamekye-Frazier serves Secondary Math and Laptop Science pre-service instructor candidates and college supervisors, in addition to mentor academics and administrative workers at secondary grades Skilled Improvement Faculties. Moreover, Farhaana teaches Skilled Seminar in Training and Area Experiences in Training for MCERT and Undergraduate college students. Nyamekye-Frazier earned a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a focus in arithmetic training from the College of Maryland, a M.A. in arithmetic training on the College of Texas in Austin, and a B.S. in arithmetic from the College of Miami with a minor in secondary training.
