Rebecca Ambrose
Professor Emeritus
After teaching middle school math for ten years, I decided to pursue a PhD to get a fresh perspective on the issues I observed every day in my classroom and thought that maybe I could help develop remedies that would help other teachers, as well.
Steven Athanases
Professor Emeritus
Steven Athanases is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at UC Davis
Principal Investigator/Project Manager, Teachers as Learners Project, James S. McDonnell Foundation, New Teachers Learning Disciplined Improvisation for Meaningful Talk in Diverse Classrooms, 2018-2025
(Recently) Director, Center for Shakespeare in Diverse Classrooms, UC Davis, partnered with Globe Education (Patrick Spottiswoode, Director), Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 2018-2023
Glen Phillip Cartwright
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD – University of Pittsburgh
Master of Science – University of Illinois
Bachelor of Science – University of Illinois
Professional Experience
Research Psychologist, Science Research Association – Chicago,
IL
Faculty & Administration – Pennsylvania State University
Associate Dean & CIO – Northeast Ohio College of Medicine
Laura Dubcovsky
Retired Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education
Education
- PhD, Spanish Department. University of California, Davis. (December 2003).
- MA, Education.
Linnea C. Ehri
Retired Professor
Education
PhD (Educational Psychology) – UC Berkeley
Professional Experience
Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology – City
University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (1991-present)
Research & teaching – UC Davis (1969-1991)
Activities
Research studies on how children learn to read and spell
Supervise research of PhD students
Kerry A. Enright
Associate Professor Emeritus
I research the relationship between Latinx students’ everyday uses of language (English and Spanish) and their engagement in language and literacy practices in institutional settings (classrooms and professional work-study placements). Some schools identify bilingual adolescents as “limited” in their English proficiency even though they use sophisticated literacy repertoires outside of school; other learners are deemed ”fluent” in English but still struggle with the language and literacy demands of their academic coursework or workplace.
Christian Faltis
Professor Emeritus
Chris Faltis holds degrees from San Francisco State University, San José State University, and Stanford University, where he earned an MA and PhD. Prior to coming to UC Davis, he served on the faculties of Arizona State University and the Universities of Alabama and Nevada. Faltis was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley.
Michele Fortes
Lecturer / Supervisor of Teacher Education Emeritus
Research Interests
Second language reading and literacy development; best practices for preparing preservice and inservice teachers to work with English learners; preservice teachers and the role of reflection in their growth as teachers; preservice teachers and pedagogy that furthers their thinking about issues of diversity; high school reform/restructuring.
Education
Ph.D., Education: Language and Literacy – University of California, Davis – 2001
BARBARA GOLDMAN
Academic Coordinator Emeritus
The article below was originally published in the Spring 2013 Catalyst
Pauline Holmes
Lecturer Emeritus and Teacher Education Emeritus
Education
Ph.D., Education – University of California Davis
Anna Kato
Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education Emeritus
Education
Ed.D., Counseling – Psychology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco – 1993
Research Interests
Classroom management/Discipline; Counseling; In-service and preservice teacher learning; Mental health promotion in schools; School psychology issues; Teacher education research and polic
Activities and Service
Fellow, Bilingual/Mulicultural Education Program, California State University, Sacramento 1975-1977
Member. California Council for the Education of Teachers (CCET)
Lauren E. Lindstrom
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Lauren Lindstrom is a Professor Emeritus and the former dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She was also a faculty affiliate with the UC Davis MIND Institute and a member of the UC Davis Graduate Group in Education. Sher continues to serve as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg. Prior to her roles at UC Davis, Dr. Lindstrom was the associate dean of research and director of the Center for Research in Education at the University of Oregon.
Barbara Merino
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Language assessment and acquisition in bilinguals; Bilingual and second language education; Classroom discourse; Elementary education; English learners; Latina/o education issues; Literacy development through science; Teacher action research; Teacher development & performance assessment
Education
Ph.D., Education and Linguistics – Stanford University, Stanford – 1976
Peter Mundy
Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor of Education and the MIND Institute of the Department of Psychiatry
There are seven million exceptional children with special needs in our American school system, such as children with autism spectrum development. They have the right to appropriate and comparable educational opportunities. Truly meeting the needs of these children requires a commitment to integrating advances in educational science, neuroscience, and social policy.
- Peter Mundy Vita
- Early Social Communication Scales Manual
- Autism and Joint Attention Book (Mundy, 2016)
- Joint Attention and Information Processing in ASD
- Joint Attention, Executive Process, & Self Regulation in Infants
- Reading Development Subgroups and ASD
- The Scope and Nature of Reading Comprehension in ASD
- Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension in ASD
- Writing Development in ASD
- Joint Attention and Information Processing
- A virtual joy stick study of motivation in ASD
- A Virtual Public Speaking Task and Social attention in ASD
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Sandra Murphy
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD (Language, Literacy & Culture) – UC Berkeley
Master of Arts in Teaching (English) – UC Berkeley
Professional Experience
Educational Consultant on Writing Assessment
Professor – UC Davis School of Education
Activities
Educational Consultant on standards, curriculum alignment, and assessment
Deb Niemeier
Professor Emeritus
Deb Niemeier is a professor with a joint appointment at the School of Education and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In September 2015, after a positive vote by Senate faculty in the spring, then Chancellor Linda Katehi approved Niemeier¹s joint appointment in the School of Education.
Rick Pomeroy
Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education Emeritus
Office hours: Wednesdays 3-5 or by appointment
Drina Ramirez
Retired Supervisor of Teacher Education
Education
Administrative Services Credential: California State University, Sacramento (1997)
M.A. Bilingual Cross-Cultural Education: California State University, Sacramento (1985)
Multiple Subject/Bilingual Specialist Teaching Credential: UC Davis, (1976)
B.S. Child Development/Minor in Spanish, with Honors: UC Davis (1975)
Supervisory Experience
Student Teacher Supervisor: UC Davis (2016-Present)
(Shirley) JoAn Skinner
Retired Faculty
Education
Master’s Degree – Sacramento State University
Bachelor’s Degree – University of Colorado
Professional Experience
Taught all elementary grades (1-8) in various states.
Supervisor of educational program at a private school in Rangoon,
Burma.
Cary Trexler
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Agricultural Education; Agri-food system literacy; Service-learning; Secondary Education; Science Education; Technology in Science; Technology in teaching and learning
Dave Wampler
Retired Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education
Education
PhD – University of Utah
Master of Arts – Indiana University
Bachelor of Arts - Indiana University
Karen Watson Gegeo
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Anthropology of consciousness; Bilingual Education; Child Development; Classroom discourse; Classroom research; Community and rural development; Critical discourse analysis; Cultural studies; Education in Developing Countries; Ethnography and Ethnographic research; Feminist theory; Geographical areas of Hawai’i and Solomon Islands; Indigenous epistemology; Language Acquisition; Language development and socialization; Language socialization theory; Linguistic anthropology; Literacy and Language policy; Organizational structure/effectiveness; Pidgin/creole langu
George D. Yonge
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD (Educational Psychology) – University of California, Berkeley
(1962)
Master of Arts (Educational Psychology) - University of
California, Berkeley (1958)
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) - University of California,
Berkeley (1956)
Professional Expertise
Learning; teacher education; phenomenological method; phenomenology of education; the study of education as a regional ontology; philosophical anthropology; “The Pretoria School of Educational Thought;” fundamental-, psycho-, didactic-, socio-, ortho-pedagogics.
Phil Young
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD (Educational Administration) 1977 – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
