Lan Kolano is Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education. She completed her Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill and has been on UNC Charlotte's faculty since 2004. Her research focuses on the language and identity development of immigrant learners and the development of critical multicultural efficacy of teachers. Dr. Kolano is currently working on an ethnographic project that examines and documents the experiences of Southeast Asian immigrant girls with limited formal education as they negotiate language, race, gender and culture and school in...
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Hilary Dack (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an Associate Professor in the department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education. Her areas of specialization are differentiated instruction and high-quality curriculum design (including Understanding by Design) in K-12 general education classrooms.
Dr. Dack teaches introductory courses on instructional design and foundations in middle grades education, as well as advanced courses on differentiated instruction and curriculum development. In 2022, she received the Cato College of Education’s Award for Excellence in...
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Kristin J. Davin is Professor of Foreign Language Education in the Cato College of Education. She teaches undergraduate and graduate foreign and second language methodology and assessment courses. Her research focuses on second language development, second language assessment, language teacher development, and the Seal of Biliteracy.
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Dr. Chance W. Lewis is the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and serves as Director of The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He leads the urban concentration of the Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Lewis' special areas of interests are academic achievement of students of color in K-12 settings, recruitment and retention of Black male teachers and urban education. Dr. Lewis has over 100 refereed publications and over $6 million in external research funding.
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Dr. Michelle Stephan is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Middle/Secondary Mathematics and the Mathematics Department at UNC Charlotte. She taught middle school mathematics in Florida for seven years before joining the College of Education. She teaches middle and secondary mathematics methods classes and provides extensive professional development to teachers in Cabarrus and Kannapolis County. Her research interests include design research methodology, mathematics for the 21st century, lesson imaging for...
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Nicholas P. Triplett, Ph.D. is Clinical Assistant Professor of Education in the Cato College of Education at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (Urban Education) from the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2018. His primary research interest centers on educational equity, school discipline, and the role of schools in social class reproduction. He is also interested in critical social studies pedagogy, education for democratic citizenship, and counterfactual history.
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