K20 Faculty Fellows

Lew Allen:

  • Director (Academic Professional)
  • League of Professional Schools; University of Georgia
  • http://www.coe.uga.edu/esse/faculty/allen/index.html
  • International Networks for Democratic Education (INDE)
  • Connecting students’ learning to important issues in their
    communities, school change, and democratic teaching and learning.

Linda Atkinson:

  • Associate Director, K20 Center; Director, K-12 Partnerships
  • K20 Center; University of Oklahoma
  • K-12 Partnerships

Randy Averso:

  • Adjunct Professor and Consultant
  • International Networks for Democratic Education (INDE)

Sally Beach:

  • Professor
  • Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum (ILAC); University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/education/ilac/Beach.htm
  • Co-PI; USDE STAR Schools grant
  • Young children’s development of understandings and concepts about literacy and what it means to be literate; research on relationship of literacy and democratic practices in emerging democracies

Joyce Brandes:

  • Assistant Professor, Oklahoma CEC Public Relations Chair
  • Department of Educational Psychology; University of Oklahoma
  • Phase 2: Whole Schools Learning
  • Autism and effective strategies for teaching students in this population; Behavior and classroom management; Preparation and supervision of preservice special educators; Early intervention and transition.

Cecelia Brown:

  • Associate Professor
  • Library and Information Studies
  • http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/B/Cecelia-M.M.Brown-1/
  • NSF: GK-12 grant
  • Information-seeking behavior of scientists in the electronic environment; informaton literacy of science undergraduate and graduate students

Jean Cate:

  • Associate Director, K20 Center; Director, Research and Academic Partnerships;
  • K20 Center; University of Oklahoma
  • Research and Academic Programs

Shane Connelly:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/cas/psychology/people/fac/connelly.htm
  • Assessment of individual differences for various applications in selection, development, and promotion contexts; developing and testing a model of leadership depicting the relationships of personality, motivation, complex problem solving, and understanding of social environments on leader performance and development; developing and validating instruments and methods for measuring these characteristics.

Gary Copeland:

Eric Day:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/cas/psychology/people/fac/day.htm
  • USDE STAR Schools Project
  • Personnel psychology such as personnel assessment, predictor/criterion development, and training and development; training and complex skill acquisition with an emphasis on observational learning and group-based training protocols.

Kelvin Droegemeier:

  • Associate Vice President for Research; Regents’ Professor of Meteorology; Director, Sasaki Institute
  • College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; University of Oklahoma
  • http://kkd.ou.edu/
  • Co-PI; NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
  • Thunderstorm dynamics and predictability; variational data assimilation; mesoscale dynamics; computational fluid dynamics; massively parallel computing; and aviation weather.

Doug Elmore:

  • Associate Provost; Associate Dean; Robert and Doris Klabzuba Professor
  • College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; University of Oklahoma
  • http://ags.ou.edu/~delmore/
  • Understanding the origin of remagnetizations in sedimentary rocks and testing/developing a paleomagnetic/geochemical approach for dating diagenetic events; testing whether the magnetite in the Martian meteorite is evidence for life on Mars and testing a sedimentologic/rock magnetic approach to obtain

William Frick:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma
  • Ph.D. Cohort in Technology Leadership
  • Ethics, Moral Philosophy and Leadership Studies; School and Community Revitalization; Instructional Supervision and Staff Developement

Jean-Marie Gaetane:

  • Assistant Professor
  • College of Education, Florida International University
  • Master of Arts in Educational and Community Renewal; New DEEL

Gregg Garn:

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/education/elps/eacs/garn.htm
  • Master of Arts in Educational and Community Renewal; Ph.D. Cohort in Technology Leadership
  • Professional developement/training/education of charter U.S. district school teachers; Tobacco allocations of state-by-state plans.

Xun Ge:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Educational Psychology; University of Oklahoma
  • http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Xun.Ge-1/
  • Designing and developing computer-supported learning environment; Scaffolding student’ problem-solving processes in ill-structured tasks mediated with technology; Distributed cognition in online collaborative learning environment.

Jesse Goodman:

  • Professor
  • College of Education; Indiana University
  • http://www.indiana.edu/~edci/faculty/Goodman.html
  • International Networks for Democrateic Education (INDE); National School Reform Faculty and Harmony Education Center
  • Curriculum and Cultural Studies, Western Intellectual History, Teacher Education, Democracy and Education, and School Reform.

Wendy Gram:

  • Director
  • Education Programs; Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
  • http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Wendy.K.Gram-1/
  • The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project, administered by the Missouri Department of Conservation, is a multi-investigator landscape-level project encompassing nearly 20 independent studies of biotic and abiotic ecosystem components in southeastern Missouri.

Barbara Greene:

  • Chair; Brian E. and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor
  • Department of Educational Psychology: University of Oklahoma
  • http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Barbara.A.Greene-1/
  • How different instructional environments affect the representation of incoming information and perceptions of the environment; Relationships among motivational and cognitive factors that affect learning; Motivational factors and learning with technology; Measurement of motivational constructs and research methodology.

Steven Gross:

  • Associate Professor and Director
  • Department of Educational Leadership and the New DEEL; Temple University
  • http://www.temple.edu/education/faculty/gross_s.html
  • Co-PI, NSF REESE
  • Leadership; Curriculum Innovation; Turbulence Theory; Democratic-Ethical Educational Leadership

Katherine Gutierrez:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma
  • Master of Arts in Educational and Community Renewal; Ph.D. Cohort in Technology Leadership
  • Educational leadership; Schools as organizations/organizational theory.

Patricia Hardre:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Educational Psychology; University of Oklahoma
  • http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/Patricia.L.Hardre-1/
  • NSF RET
  • Motivation in education, rural education and rural secondary schools; Quality of undergraduate education and TA instructional developement; Instructional design and delivery systems, design and delivery systems, design of learning environments, educational program evaluation, faculty productivity in higher education.

Kathy Klock:

  • Consultant and Adjunct Professor
  • Microsoft, US Partners in Learning; Oregon State University

Tim Laubach:

  • Instructor (ILAC); Director, GK-12 and Biotech Schools Project
  • Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum (ILAC); University of Oklahoma
  • NSF, GK12, Biotech Schools Project

Jeff Maiden:

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma
  • http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/M/Jeffrey.Maiden-1/
  • Ph.D. Cohort in Technology Leadership
  • Education finance; fiscal implications of education reform; Implications of fiscal reform.

Renee McPherson:

  • Director
  • Oklahoma Climatological Survey
  • http://www.ocs.ou.edu
  • NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
  • Research conducted using the Oklahoma Mesonet in order to more accurately assess and predict the onset of drought conditions, develop new technologies, and improve weather forecasting.

Dana Mitra:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Education Policy Studies, Penn State University
  • http://www.ed.psu.edu/edthp/Faculty%20Bios/mitra.asp
  • New DEEL
  • Education policy, school reform, student voice, school-community collaboration, qualitative methods, urban education, youth development, and social policy.

George Moore:

  • Associate Professor
  • College of Education, Sam Houston State University
  • K20 Technology

Mike Mumford:

Teri Jo Murphy:

Mark Nanny:

  • Associate Professor
  • School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Studies, Univerisity of Oklahoma
  • http://cees.ou.edu/faculty/index.html#nanny
  • PI, NSF GK-12; Co-PI, NSF PFI, NSF REESE, NSF RET
  • Environmental chemistry; Environmental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Sacra Nicholas:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum (ILAC); University of Oklahoma

Grayson Noley:

  • Chair and Associate Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/education/elps/eacs/noley.htm
  • Successful schools research; history of education, especially American Indian education.

Ulli Nollert:

Dan O’Hair:

  • Presidential Professor and Director
  • Department of Communication; Institute for Communication Research; University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/facpages/ohair.html
  • Co-PI, NSF REESE
  • Organizational communication, health communication, and risk communication.

Jon Pederson:

Jinsong Pei:

Simin Pulat:

  • Associate Dean for Engineering Education; Professor
  • College of Engineering, Univerisity of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ie.ou.edu/people/fac/spulat/php
  • Engineering Service Learning
  • Mathematical modeling and applications to complex systems ranging from health care, transportation, distribution, and manufacturing.

Shehab Randa:

  • Director, Associate Professor
  • School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ie.ou.edu/people/fac/shehad.php
  • Co-PI; NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET)
  • Human performance in occupational environments; Physical performance of special populations; Technology and learning; Engineering education

Tarek Rashed:

  • Assistant Professor
  • College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; Univerisity of Oklahoma
  • http://ags.ou.edu/~rashed/index.htm
  • International Networks for Democratic Education (INDE)
  • Use of GIS and remote sensing for hazards risk and vulnerability analyses and disaster management, modeling population dynamics, systems analysis and design, fuzzy logic, virtual GIS, internet mapping, techniques of urban remote sensing, and GIS education

Stacy Reeder:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum (ILAC); University of Oklahoma
  • K20 STEM Initiatives
  • Emergent mathematics curriculum; creating space for mathematics teaching and learning; the role of listening in teaching mathematics.

Rick Reitzug:

  • Chair and Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies; University of North Carolina-Greensboro
  • http://www.uncg.edu/elc/htmlvitas/reitzug.htm
  • Master of Arts in Educational and Community Renewal
  • Educational leadership, democratic schooling, school renewal, school inquiry

Teri Reed Rhoads:

  • Assistant Dean, Associate Professor
  • Engineering Education; Purdue University
  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/People/profile?resource_id=14140
  • NSF GK-12
  • Assessment and evaluation; Engineering statistics; Cognitive and affective domains of learning; Retention strategies; Diversity; Curriculum development and accreditation; PreK-12 Engineering Education and Outreach

Eero Ropo:

  • Professor
  • Faculty of Education, Tampere University, Finland
  • International Networks for Democratic Education (INDE)

Larry Rossow:

Scott Russell:

  • George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Botany; Director
  • Department of Botany and Microbiology; Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Lab; University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/faculty/russell.shtml
  • Elucidation of double fertilization mechanisms in flowering plants using rice, Arabidopsis and Plumbago as model systems, with the goal of resolving on a molecular level how gametes develop, recognize one another, fuse and transmit their nuclear and cytoplasmic genome. Recent work has emphasized the gene profiling of pollen and male gametes, with the goal of exploiting the unique attributes of gametes to develop a genetically powerful haploid method for selecting flowering plant characteristics for purposes of transformation and recombination.

Kathy Taber:

  • Adjunct Professor and Principal, Jefferson Elementary, Norman Public Schools
  • Department of Instructional and Leadership and Academic Curriculum (ILAC); University of Oklahoma
  • http://staff.norman.k12.ok.us/~ktaber/

Deborah Trytten:

  • Chair and Professor
  • School of Computer Science; University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.cs.ou.edu/faculty_staff/trytten.htm
  • Co-PI; USDE STAR Schools Project
  • Undergraduate education in computer science, collaborative learning, the use of technology in classroom teaching, computer graphics, and computer vision

Gordon Uno:

  • Chair and Graduate Liaison, David Ross Boyd Professor
  • Department of Botany and Microbiology; University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/faculty/uno.html
  • Co-PI; NSF Partnerships for innovation (PFI); NSF REESE
  • Plant reproductive biology and science education

Courtney Vaughn:

  • Professor
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma
  • http://www.ou.edu/cls/faculty/vaughn.htm
  • Ph.D. Cohort in Technology Leadership
  • History & Sociology of Education; Women’s Studies

Dr. Susan E. Walden:

  • Director, Research Institute for STEM Education

Lee Williams:

  • Vice President for Research, Dean of the Graduate College, Regents Professor of Geography
  • University of Oklahoma
  • http://research.ou.edu/InformationServices/ContactUs/Bio_WilliamsVPR.htm
  • Co-PI; NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
  • Development of satellite remote sensing of the environment has encompassed spatial modelling of noxious weeds; radar remote sensing of arctic sea ice; and exploration petroleum geology

Leslie Williams:

  • Research Associate Professor; Associate Director, K20 Center; Director, K-12 Research
  • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS); University of Oklahoma

May Yuan:

  • Associate Dean; Professor; and Director
  • College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; Department of Geography Center for Spacial Analysis; University of Oklahoma
  • http://ags.ou.edu/faculty_details.php?FacID=21
  • Geographic representation; spatiotemporal information modeling; and applications of geographic information technologies to dynamic systms.