Faculty & Staff Directory

EdD, University of Georgia; MEd, Clemson University; BA, Meredith College

Middle Level Education and Teacher Education, Content Area Literacy and Student Motivation, Young Adolescents' Transition from Middle to High School

Reviewer for RMLE Online, Middle Grades Research Journal and Middle School Journal, as well as the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation/Association for Middle Level Education Specialized Professional Association (AMLE/CAEP SPA) and the Georgia Lighthouse Schools to Watch. Active with the National CMLA Advisory Board and the Association for Middle Level Education Foundation Board.

PhD, University of Alabama; MA, University of Alabama; BS, Birmingham-Southern College

Arts and Literacy; Writing Development; Beliefs and Practices of Effective Literacy Teachers; Foundations of Reading, Literacy and Language, Writing Across the Curriculum

Literacy GAPSC Reviewer, Literacy Journal Reviewer, Children Book Co-author

PhD, University of Georgia; MA, University of Georgia; BA, University of Georgia 

Critical Disability Studies; Disability Studies in Education; Literacy and Rare Diseases; Family Literacy Practices; Popular Culture in Education; Critical Analyses of Children’s Literature, Comics, and Graphic Narratives 

University Curriculum Committee; COE Purpose & Direction Committee, COE Scholarships & Recognitions Committee, Graduate Program Coordinators Committee, CTL Faculty Fellows

PhD, University of Georgia; M.Ed, University of Central Florida; B.A., Stetson University

Literacy Education; Early Career Teachers; Education Policy; Teacher Education

Educator Preparation Stakeholder's Council; Acceptance, Representation, and Community Committee; COE Curriculum Committee; Excellence in Teaching & Excellence in Online Teaching Committee

EdD, University of North Carolina Greensboro; MEd, University of North Carolina Greensboro; BA, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Philosophy and Educational Theorizing, Teaching and Learning, Aesthetics

Georgia College & State University Institutional Review Board.

PhD, Georgia State University; M.Ed Troy University; BA Georgia State University

Instructional Coaching, Culturally Relevant teaching Practices, First Year Teaching Experiences, Pre-Service Students Self-efficacy, 

• Acceptance, Representation, and Community 
• Graduate Council

B.A St. Thomas Aquinas, M.A.T Duke University, Ph.D North Carolina University.

Researching different areas in Teacher Education.

Purpose & Direction Committee, COE Connections Committee

EdD, Duquesne University; MA, Simpson University; BA, Hiram College

Learner-Computer Interactions, Multimedia Resource Use and Learning Outcomes, Motivation in Knowledge Sharing

Curriculum Committee (COE), Excellence in Service Committee (PLI), Visiting Scholar Review Committee

Ph.D University of Georgia, M.Ed University of West Georgia, B.A. University of West Georgia

Research in School Libraries; Information Literacy; Inquiry-based Learning; Digital Literacies; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Popular Culture; Adolescent Literacy; Multimodal Literacies

GLMA (Georgia Library Media Association) Co-Chair-School Librarian of the Year Award; COE Acceptance, Representation, & Community Committee; General Education Committee(GCSU), AASL (American Association of School Librarians); American Reading Forum: Literacy Research Association.

PhD, University of Tennessee; MSEd, University of Memphis; BS, Indiana University

Producer of View Finders & View Finder Education on PBS

Chair of Tenure & Promotion

EdD, Duquesne University; MBA, California University of PA; BS, Cumhuriyet University

• Instructional Technology
• Computer Science Education
• Computational Thinking
• Micro-credential Professional Development
• Artificial Intelligence Pedagogy
• Cybersecurity Education

• Curriculum Committee (COE)
• Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (STFAC)
• Artificial Intelligence Policy Review Committee (AIPRC)
• Academic Policy Committee (APC) 
• DEAL Center Mini-Grant committee

PhD, Georgia Southern University; MEd, Georgia Southern University; BS, Georgia Southern University

Personalized Learning, Effective Meetings, Learning Environments (Cognia)

Personalized Learning, Effective Meetings, Learning Environments (Cognia)

EdD, University of Virginia; MA, James Madison University; BA, Bridgewater College

Personalized Learning, Effective Meetings, Learning Environments (Cognia)

Personalized Learning, Effective Meetings, Learning Environments (Cognia)

PhD, University of South Carolina; MEd, University of South Carolina; BA, University of Lagos

Program and Unit Accreditations; Intersection of Gender and Leadership in Academia; Organization and Administration of Middle Level Education; Multicultural Education; Human Trafficking; Brain Damage; Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Member of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP); the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE); the Association of Global South Studies (AGSS); the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME); the African Studies Research Forum (ASRF).