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Experts Directory: Education: K–12

Alejandra Acuña

Department of Social Work
work:
(818) 677-7798
𳾲:aacuna@csun.eduaacunalcsw@gmail.com
Also speaks: Spanish

  • Urban youth and families
  • Traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Resilience
  • Mental health in schools
  • School social work
  • Family communication
  • Family engagement in children’s mental health
  • Evidence-based mental health practices
  • Cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools
  • Parenting and family therapy
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Child welfare
  • Program evaluation
  • Cultural/traditional mental health practices
  • Social marketing campaigns for mental health

Elizabeth Adams

Associate Vice President, Undergraduate Studies
work: (818) 677-2969
𳾲:elizabeth.adams@csun.edu

  • Folklore
  • Popular culture
  • Tourism
  • Teacher preparation in subject matter
  • Gender and sexuality

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Susan Belgrad

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-4901
𳾲:susan.belgrad@csun.edu

  • Engaged learning
  • Brain compatible learning
  • Cooperative learning
  • Reflective practice portfolios
  • Authentic assessment
  • Student voice in assessment/portfolio conferences

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David Boyns

Department of Sociology
work: (818) 677-6803 / 3591
email:

  • Sociological theory
  • Emotions
  • Social interaction
  • Mass media
  • Consumerism
  • First-year public school teachers
  • Quantitative survey research

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Joyce Burstein

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-6850
email:joyce.burstein@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

  • Social studies
  • Arts
  • Multicultural education
  • Teacher education
  • Activism in teaching
  • Social studies research in elementary schools

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Sandra B. Chong

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-2533
email:sandra.b.chong@csun.edu
Also speaks: Korean

  • Literacy instruction in elementary school grades K–8
  • English-as-a-second-language instruction and methods for K–16 and SDAIE
  • Bilingual (Korean/English) instruction and methods for K–8
  • Classroom management
  • Credential and master’s program advisement
  • Supervision of student teachers
  • Home literacy practices and second language acquisition

Amy Hanreddy

Department of Special Education
work: (818) 677-2522
email:amy.n.hanreddy@csun.edu

  • Inclusionof students with disabilities in general education classrooms
  • Media representations of individuals with disabilities
  • Co-teaching
  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Consulting with TV/film producers and writers on disability representations, script consultations and connections to relevant disability organizations
  • CHIME Institute
  • Co-Author: “Teaching Communications Skills to Students with Severe Disabilities”

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Norman Herr

Department of Secondary Education
work: (818) 677-2505
email:norm.herr@csun.edu

  • Science education
  • Technology education

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David Klein

Department of Mathematics
work: (818) 677-7792 / 2721
email:

  • K–12 mathematics education
  • Statistical mechanics

David Klein work:

Greg Knotts

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-3189
𳾲:greg.knotts@csun.edu

  • Gender in elementary education
  • Sexuality in elementary education
  • Democratic education
  • Social studies education
  • Pre-service teachers
  • Integrating the arts in elementary education
  • Author: "Reclaiming Social Studies for the Elementary Classroom: Integrating Culture Through the Arts"

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Wilda Laija-Rodriguez

Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
work: (818) 677-7889
𳾲:wilda.laija@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

  • Bilingual assessment
  • Psychoeducational and psychological assessment
  • Outcome-based assessment
  • Multicultural issues in education
  • Second language reading

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Beth Lasky

Department of Special Education
work: (818) 677-2725
𳾲:beth.lasky@csun.edu

  • Delivering good instruction from kindergarten to adult education
  • Diversity in education
  • Inclusion of students with disabilities in schools, including colleges and universities
  • Instructing students with disabilities
  • Second-language learners

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Amy Levin

Department of Social Work
work: (818) 677-4994
email:

  • At-risk youth
  • Veterans’ mental health
  • 2011 National Association of Social Workers’ “Social Worker of the Year”

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Cathy McLeod

National Center on Deafness
work: (818) 677-2611
𳾲:catherine.mcleod@csun.edu
Also speaks: American Sign Language

  • Deafness
  • Training administrators and regular education teachers in K–12 and postsecondary settings
  • Advocacy of deaf rights and interpreting issues

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David L. Moguel

Department of Secondary Education
work: (818) 677-4010
email:david.l.moguel@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

  • Teacher education
  • Bilingual education and education of immigrant students
  • Latino/Hispanic population history, culture and education
  • Service learning

Theresa Montaño

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6801
𳾲:theresa.montano@csun.eduor
Also speaks: Spanish

  • Public education
  • Teachers’ unions
  • Privatization of public education
  • Education in Los Angeles
  • Bilingual education/duel immersion
  • California politics
  • Chicana/o studies

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Wendy Murawski

Department of Special Education
Executive Director &Eisner Endowed Chair, Center for Teaching and Learning
work: (818) 677-7037 /2596
email:wendy.murawski@csun.edu
Also speaks: German

  • Collaborative teaching
  • Co-teaching
  • Learning disabilities
  • Team teaching
  • Staff development for teachers
  • Inclusive education for students with mild/moderate disabilities

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Rachel Friedman Narr

Department of Special Education
work: (818)677-4007
𳾲:
Also speaks: American Sign Language

  • Education of the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Communication strategies for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals
  • Bilingual language acquisition
  • American Sign Language and (spoken or print) English
  • Teacher preparation

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Steven B. Oppenheimer

Department of Biology
Director, Center for Cancer and Developmental Biology
work: (818) 677-3336 / 3356
𳾲:steven.oppenheimer@csun.edu

  • Cancer biology and prevention
  • Developmental biology, cell surface and cell adhesion
  • Enhancing science education

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Nancy O’Rode

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-7402
𳾲:nancyo@csun.edu

  • Algebraic thinking
  • Algebraic thinking in middle schools
  • Transformation to formal algebra
  • Equity in mathematics education
  • Exemplary curriculum in elementary mathematics
  • Jane Austen

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Steven Sherry

Department of Social Work
work:
(818) 677-6421
email:

  • Child and adolescent psychotherapy
  • Trauma-based therapy
  • Emotional disturbance in children
  • School-based mental health
  • Child welfare and mental health

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Terry Sweeting

Department of Kinesiology
work: (818) 677-7570
email:

  • Teaching effectiveness in elementary physical education
  • Assessment in elementary physical education

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Virginia Oberholzer Vandergon

Department of Biology
work: (818) 677-6362 /3356
𳾲:virginia.vandergon@csun.edu

  • K–12 science education
  • Genetics
  • Molecular evolution

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Thelma Vickroy

Department of Cinema and Television Arts
work: (818) 677-6361
email: thelma.vickroy@csun.edu

  • Television production
  • Documentary production
  • Developing high school documentary studies programs

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Kristen Walker

Department of Marketing
work: (818) 677-2040
𳾲:kristen.walker@csun.edu

  • Social media
  • Consumer information exchange
  • Privacy
  • Marketing and public policy
  • Technology and consumer information
  • Data-rich environments
  • Trust and transparency
  • Middle-school youth and digital literacy
  • Social media and sports
  • Small business and start-ups and issues of privacy and security

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Ann E. Watkins

Department of Mathematics
work: (818) 677-2781
email: ann.watkins@csun.edu

  • Statistics education
  • Advanced placement statistics examination

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Connie White

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-7394
email:connie.white@csun.edu

  • Literacy reading and writing
  • Critical literacy
  • Gender and education
  • New Literacy Studies
  • Family literacy

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