Dean
Office: ED 320
Phone: (773) 995-3988
Email: ltaylo46@ozone-1.com
Inna Dolzhenko |
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Inna Dolzhenko
Assistant Professor Early Childhood Education
Office: ED 217
Phone: (773) 995-2191
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
Nancy Grim, Ph.D. |
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Nancy Grim, PhD
Interim Dept. Chairperson | Associate Professor Elementary, Middle Level, and Secondary
Education
Email: ngrim@ozone-1.com
Office: ED 318
Phone: (773) 995-2097
Research/Service Interest:
Life-threatening Allergies in Schools, Science & Technology Education (Teacher Candidate
Preparation / Pre-K to 12 Schools), Assessment & Accreditation, University Assessment
Steering Committee - Evidence Committee Co-Chair
Jacquelyn Benchik-Osborne, Ph.D. |
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Jacquelyn Benchik-Osborne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Elementary Education
Phone: (773) 995-2006
Research/Service Interests:
Democratic teaching and classroom practice within the tradition of the field, social
foundations of education, integrating voice, perspective, and point-of-view in the
Deweyan tradition
of classrooms, literacies across all disciplines of subject study, social and emotional learning in the area of STEM for both elementary and middle-level students.
Michael Wannah |
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Michael Wannah
Assistant Professor, Bilingual Education
Phone: (773) 995-2073
Chyrese Wolf, Ed.D. |
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Chyrese Wolf, Ed.D.
Associate Professor
Elementary & Middle Education and Graduate Reading
Office: ED 229
Phone: (773) 995-2370 (Prefer email communication cwolf@ozone-1.com)
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.
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Michael Williams, EdD
Assistant Professor
Elementary Education
Office: ED 324
Email: mwillj12@ozone-1.com
Sarah Buck, Ph.D. |
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Sarah Buck, Ph.D.
Professor Health Education, Physical Education & Recreation
Office: JDC 220
Phone: (773) 995-3651
Research/Service Interests:
My research interests are currently cultural factors related to sedentary lifestyles
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.
Mark A. Kutame, Ph.D. |
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Mark A. Kutame, Ph.D.
Department ChairpersonProfessor
Health Education, Physical Education & Recreation
Office: JDC 216
Phone: (773) 995-3650
Research/Service Interest:
My research interests are in Teacher Content and Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Curriculum
and Instruction, and international physical education.
June Price-Shingles |
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June Price – Shingles
Associate Professor
Health Education, Physical Education & Recreation
Office: JDC 223
Phone: (773) 995-3779
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.
Michael McNicholas |
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Michael McNicholas
Assistant Professor
Health Education, Physical Education & Recreation
Office: JDC 219
Phone: (773) 995-2294
Research/Service Interests:
Community therapeutic recreation and community mental health.
Florah Luseno |
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Florah Luseno
Department Chairperson Professor Special Education
ED 319
fluseno@ozone-1.com
Phone:(773) 995-2086
Athanase Gahungu |
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Athanase Gahungu
Professor
Principal Preparations
Office: ED 237
Phone: (773) 995-2009
Garrard McClendon, Ph.D. |
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Professor
Principal Preparation, Higher Education Administration, Doctoral Studies
Office: ED 231
Phone: (773)821-2579
Research/Service Interests:
Perceptions, Expectations, and Language, Ebonics, Education, School Choice, Critical
Race Theory, Politics, Education, Law and Finance
Olanipekun Laosebikan, Ph.D |
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Assistant Professor
Higher Education Administration
Office: ED 226
Phone: (773)821-2832
Research/Service Interests:
Black international education exchange, international student organizations and political
activism, HBCUs and international education.
Chandra Cabraal |
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Chandra Cabraal
Associate Professor
Doctoral Studies
Office: ED 238
Phone: (773)821-2832
Byung-in Seo, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor
Doctoral Studies
Office: ED 228
Phone: (773)821-2181
Research/Service Interests:
Content area literacy, Secondary education, Curriculum, Instruction, Bridging the
learning divide between English/language arts and mathematics.
Location:
Education Building Room: 320
Office Hours: 10am to 6pm. Monday through Friday
Telephone: (773) 995-3988 Fax: (773) 995-2473