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Lan Kolano, Ph.D.

Department Chair & Professor
COED 324D
704-687-8713
lan.kolano@uncc.edu

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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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Elonda Steele

Office Manager
COED 324
704-687-8877
Elonda.Steele@uncc.edu

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Brittany Anderson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
704-687-8875
Bander64@uncc.edu

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Bettie Ray Butler, Ph.D.

Bettie Ray Butler, Ph.D.

Professor & Program Director (MED, Urban Education)
COED 317D
704-687-7098
bettie.butler@uncc.edu

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Heather Coffey, Ph.D.

Professor & Program Director (MED-Curriculum & Instruction)
704-687-8875
COED 321B
hcoffey@uncc.edu

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Hilary Dack, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Program Director (BA-Middle Grades)
COED 312D
704-687-8875
hdack@uncc.edu

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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 Davin, Ph.D.

Professor & Program Director (FLED)
COED 321A
704-687-8875
kdavin@charlotte.edu

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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.


Curriculum vitae
 

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Warren DiBiase

Warren DiBiase, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Program Director (Graduate Certificate)
COED 317B
704-687-8875
wjdibias@uncc.edu

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Dr. Warren J DiBiase is an Associate Professor of science education. His teaching responsibilities involve the preparation of middle/secondary science teachers at the graduate and undergraduate level. DiBiase is a past chair of the department. His other responsibilities include teaching an undergraduate course in Science, Technology and Society; a graduate level course in secondary education and serving as the...

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Susan Harden, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Program Director (Minor in CUYC)
COED 312C
704-687-8875
sharden@uncc.edu

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Susan B. Harden is an Associate Professor of Education at UNC Charlotte and the Director for the Civic Minor in Urban Youth and Communities and the Charlotte Community Scholars undergraduate research program. Dr. Harden’s teaching, research, and service expertise is in understanding community engagement at cultural institutions and developing engaged scholarship in higher education. She received her Ph.D. in...

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Tina Heafner, Ph.D.

Professor & Program Director (Ph.D.-Curriculum & Instruction)
COED 317
704-687-8875
theafner@uncc.edu

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Charles Hutchison

Charles Hutchison, Ph.D.

Professor
COED 317A
704-687-8875
chutchis@uncc.edu

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Dr. Charles B. Hutchison was born in Ghana and currently teaches at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. With formal education in the sciences and theology and having lived in Africa, Europe, and the U.S., he has worked as a molecular immunologist and as an educator in several educational contexts. He is the author of several books, his latest book being Experiences of Immigrant Professors (Routledge,...

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Jeanneine Jones, Ed.D.

Professor Emeritus
COED 312A
704-687-8875
jpjones@uncc.edu

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Jeanneine P. Jones is Professor Emeritus of Middle Grades Education at UNC Charlotte. She has 44 years of middle grades experience at 8th grade and university levels, including a past PDS relationship with a 21-year history. Her experiences have led to numerous publications, presentations, and leadership roles that allow her to teach with high impact what she has learned. In addition to these responsibilities,...

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Joan Lachance, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Program Director (TESL)
COED 325
704-687-8875
jlachance@uncc.edu

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Adrienne Lee

Administrative Support Associate
COED 324
704-687-8878
alee12@uncc.edu

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Chance Lewis

Chance Lewis, Ph.D.

Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor, Endowed Chair of Urban Education
COED 326
704-659-6842
chance.lewis@uncc.edu

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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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Adam Myers, Ed.D.

Academic Advisor | Clinical Associate Professor | Program Director (MAT Middle/Secondary Education)
COED 323B
704-687-6055
amyers35@uncc.edu

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Premkumar Pugalenthi, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor
COED 312
ppugalen@uncc.edu

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Spencer Salas, Ph.D.

Professor
COED 312B
704-687-8875
ssalas@uncc.edu

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Michelle Stephan

Michelle Stephan, Ph.D.

Professor
COED 317C
704-687-8875
mstepha1@uncc.edu

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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 Triplett, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor
704-687-8875
ntriple1@uncc.edu

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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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Greg Wiggan

Greg Wiggan, Ph.D.

Professor
COED 314
704-687-8627
gwiggan@uncc.edu

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