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Janet Gaffney
Professor
Janet S. Gaffney is a professor in the Department of Special Education with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Educational Psychology and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research focuses on developing teachers' expertise to facilitate the independent literacy learning of children and youth with and without disabilities who are not making adequate progress. She works collaboratively with district partners to design organic, high-impact, system-wide, long-term, professional development opportunities that lead to documented and sustainable literacy outcomes for children.more information...
Georgia Earnest Garcia
Professor
My past research projects have focused on the literacy instruction, assessment, and development of students (preschool-8) from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, with a special interest in bilingual students' reading. My current research interests include investigating cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual students' reading and writing (Spanish-English speakers and Chinese-English speakers) and the literacy engagement, motivation, and instruction of bilingual students. I also am interested in studying how assessment and instructional reform efforts affect the reading instruction and performance of students from diverse backgrounds.more information...
Gloriana González
Assistant Professor
Gloriana González's research focuses on how teachers manage students' prior knowledge. She is interested in examining teachers' decision-making when handling students' prior knowledge and the rationality underlying those decisions.more information...
Jennifer Greene
Professor
Jennifer’s research interests focus on the intersections of social science and social policy. Her work in the domain of educational and social program evaluation seeks to advance the theory and practice of alternative forms of evaluation, including qualitative, democratic, and mixed methods evaluation approaches. Current work emphasizes evaluation as a venue for democratizing dialogue about critical social and educational issues, with a focus on conceptualizing evaluation as a "public good.more information...
Sarah Grison
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Great learning and great teaching go hand in hand, and both are enhanced when we take into account scientific research on teaching and learning. As a teacher-researcher, I use psychological science as a way to both improve student learning and also support continual development of teaching skills. As a researcher, my primary focus is on combining cognitive neuroscience research with empirical classroom studies that examine student learning across experimentally manipulated pedagogical interventions.more information...
Rochelle Gutierrez
Professor
Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez' scholarship focuses on equity issues in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning. Through in-depth analyses of effective teaching/learning communities and longitudinal studies of developing teachers, her work challenges deficit views of Latina/o and African American students. Her current research projects focus upon: developing in pre-service teachers the knowledge and disposition to teach powerful mathematics to urban students; the role of uncertainty and "Nepantla" as it relates to teaching; and teacher community and secondary mathematics teaching in México, for which she received a Fulbright fellowship.more information...