Professional Organization: IRA

Lauren Finley, UNC-Charlotte

Lauren Finley

Assistant Principal

llfinley@uncc.edu

PH.D in curriculum and instruction

Reading, Classroom instruction

Assistant Principal at an Elementary School in the Southeast.

Greta Vollmer, Sonoma State University

Greta Vollmer

Assistant Professor

PhD, 2000 UC Berkeley School of Education

Genre based pedagogy in secondary schools, esp content areas, Information technology in teacher education, National Writing Project

Genre studies, Composition theory and pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Narrative and new technologies

Larry Brent Vosburgh, Mansfield University

Larry Brent Vosburgh

Program Director, School of Respiratory Therapy

M. Michele Pittard, Wabash College

M. Michele Pittard

Assistant Professor Teacher Education

PhD Curriculum and Instruction

Studying the relationship between liberal arts education and teacher education., Examining the benefits of having undergraduate teacher education students do classroom-based research during student teaching.

teacher knowledge & development; liberal arts education and teacher education

Michele Pittard is an assistant professor in Teacher Education at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN.

Academic Commons is a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology and networked information support the current project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated? Learn more.