Professional Development for Teachers

Overview
Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: MTH. Elementary Education; Gender and Equity Issues in Mathematics Education; In-Service and Preservice Teacher Learning; Mathematics Education

Rebecca Ambrose

Professor

Portrait of Rebecca Ambrose

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.

UC Davis School of Education Building, Room 254
(530) 754-4831
rcambrose@ucdavis.edu
Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: LLC, SOEP

Margarita Jimenez-Silva

Professor

Portrait of Margarita Jimenez-Silva

Prof. Margarita Jimenez-Silva’s research focuses on preparing and supporting teachers to work with culturally and linguistically diverse learners, especially in addressing emergent bilinguals’ linguistic and academic content development. More specifically, her research strands include teacher education pedagogy and curriculum, educational policy, and family/community engagement. Her research has been published by journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Childhood Education, and the Journal of Research on Childhood Education. 

UC Davis, School of Education Building, Room 130, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-3959
mjimenezsilva@ucdavis.edu
Staff Profile CAP-ED

Dr. Christina E. Murdoch

Executive Director, Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed)

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
—Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man

Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed)

Christina E. Murdoch serves as Executive Director of the Center for Applied Policy in Education within the UC Davis School of Education. In this role, Christina develops and directs professional learning programs for school district superintendents, principals and teachers including the following:

• Superintendents’ Executive Leadership Forum (SELF) 

(530) 752-1533
Faculty Profile Sacramento Area Science Project (SASP) EMPHASIS AREA: SCI/AG. Science education; Secondary education

Cynthia M. Passmore

Professor

Cindy Passmore

Research Interests

Science Education; Secondary Education

Education

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction – University of Wisconsin, Madison – 2002

Broadcast, Print or Electronic Media

modelbasedbiology.com

modelinglivingearthbiology.org

UC Davis, School of Education Building, Room 252, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: SCI/AG. Science Education, Groupwork, Race and Schooling, Social Emotional Intelligence, Social Justice Education, Literacy in Science

Alexis Patterson Williams

Associate Professor and Chair of Teacher Education

Alexis Patterson Williams, Ph.D., joined the School of Education in July 2015 as an Assistant Professor in science education. She is currently a CAMPOS Faculty Scholar and is excited to work with her cohort to develop a research center that focuses on increasing the participation of women of color in STEM related fields.

UC Davis, School of Education Building, Room 257, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-8675
adpatterson@ucdavis.edu
Faculty Profile

Nancy Tseng

Associate Professor of Teaching in Education and Bilingual Coordinator–Mandarin

Dr. Nancy Tseng is an Associate Professor of Teaching in Education in the School of Education. She began her career in education as a public elementary school teacher. Her research interests focus on the development of productive student-teacher relationships in elementary classrooms, identifying instructional practices that support mathematics learning and teaching, and pre-and in-service teacher education. Dr. Tseng received a BA in psychology, elementary teaching credential, and MA from the University of California, Davis. She has a Ph.D.

UC Davis, School of Education Building, Room 118, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-7910
nstseng@ucdavis.edu
Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: MTH. Diversity, Race and Equity; Elementary Education; Identity, Teaching and Schooling; Professional Development for Teachers; Secondary Education; STEM Education; Teacher Education and Preparation

Charles E. Wilkes II

Assistant Professor

My research attends to the teaching and learning of Black learners in K-16 contexts. One strand of my research has focused on Black learners’ experiences in mathematics classrooms. A second strand of my research attends to how mathematics instruction supports the learning of mathematical content and the nurturing of positive mathematics identities for Black learners. The third and final strand of my research is supporting pre-service teachers’ and in-service teachers’ development of teaching equitable practices through interventions and professional development.

UC Davis, School of Education Building, Room 255, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
cwilkes@ucdavis.edu

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