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Faculty

Early Childhood and Bilingual Education

Research/Service Interests:

Early Childhood Education (social and emotional development of young children)
Social-Emotional Learning and Character Development (teaching SEL skills to young children)
Special Education (development of young children with disabilities)
Mindfulness (development of awareness of self and others)
Multicultural education (anti-bias education, culturally responsive pedagogy)
Teacher preparation
Quantitative research methodologies (multiple regression, multivariate analyses, hierarchical linear modeling)
Qualitative research methodologies

Research/Service Interests:

Social-emotional learning, culturally responsive teaching, professional development for early childhood educators, teacher advocacy and family engagement.

Research/Service Interests:

Health Education and Physical Education , and Recreation

Research/Service Interests:

My research interests are currently cultural factors related to sedentary in African American females. For service, I am Academic Affairs Committee Chair, the General Education Committee Secretary, and a member of Faculty Senate and the COE Admissions and Standards committees (all CSU). I am Past-President of IAHPERD (Illinois Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance) and currently on the Executive Board as well as editor of the semi-annual publication, the Illinois Journal. I am a member of Rotary1 Chicago as well as co-Chair of the Community Service committee.

Research/Service Interests:

Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Curriculum and Instruction.

Research/Service Interests:

Psychosocial Aspects of Disability and Paralympics Sports
President Chicago Teachers College/Chicago State University Alumni Association
Secretary Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) Committee
Secretary Board of Athletic Advisors
Faculty Search Committee
Member, College of Education Graduate Committee
Secretary Department Personnel Committee

Research/Service Interests:

My research interest consist of creating a new programming module for recreation faculty nationwide for instruction during the program design course using the 40 Developmental Assets as the core criteria. Other interests are in leadership and professional development modules for undergraduate students independent of the core curriculum for parks, recreation and sports management and therapeutic recreation while matriculating through undergraduate studies.

Graduate Programs in Education

Research/Service Interests:

Employment of youth with disabilities
Special Education transition services
Vocational Education for youth with disabilities
Co-teaching
Special Education teachers retention

Research/Service Interests:

Research interest: teacher perceptions of student substance use; trauma-informed teaching & learning.

Service Interests: Serenity Academy of Chicago (SAC) board member (working to start a sober high school in Chicago); SMART Recovery volunteer facilitator.

Research/Service Interests:

Perceptions, Expectations, and Language
Ebonics, Education, School Choice
Critical Race Theory
Politics, Education, Law and Finance

Research/Service Interests:

Black international education exchange, international student organizations and political activism, HBCUs and international education.

Information Studies

Research/Service Interests:

Distance Education, Science Communication,Digital Media, Cultural Aspects of Data Mining, LGBTQ+ History and Education.

Research/Service Interests:

Rae-Anne Montague completed graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Montague's research in library and information science centers around social justice, learning communities, and inquiry. Dr. Montague is interested in developing critical understanding of community engagement and facilitating effective information practices and services in schools and with underserved populations. Dr. Montague is currently involved in scholarly activities to promote information literacy with young people and the LGBTQ+ community.

Doctoral Studies

Research/Service Interests:

Content area literacy, Secondary education, Curriculum, Instruction, Bridging the learning divide between English/language arts and mathematics.

Elementary Education

Research/Service Interests:

International comparative literacy teacher development using large-scale assessments, PISA and PIRLS, in the development of the public's perception of teacher effectiveness. Impact of dialogical teaching in the literacy classroom: examining the teacher-student relationship.

Research/Service Interests:

Simeon Stumme completed his graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Stumme’s research interest focus on bilingual education, theories of second language acquisition and the educational experiences of immigrant students. He is interested the role of language in Dual Language classrooms as source of identity formation for students. Dr. Stumme was a bilingual teacher in California and Illinois for 11 years.