Faculty Recognition

INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL HONORS

• Elected Member, National Academy of Education
  Jeremy Kilpatrick, Mathematics & Science Education

• Fellows of the American Educational Research Association
  Peter Smagorinsky, Language and Literacy Education
  Leslie Steffe, Mathematics & Science Education

• Fulbright Scholar to Ireland
  Michael Ferrara, Kinesiology

• Edward Fry Book Award
  (National Reading Conference)
  Peter Smagorinsky, Language & Literacy Education

• Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award
  (American Psychological Association)
  Rosemary Phelps, Counseling & Human Development Services

• International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame
  Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Lifelong Education, Educational Administration & Policy

• Distinguished Colleague Award
  (National Recreation and Parks Association)
  Douglas Kleiber, Counseling & Human Development Services

• Diploma of Honor
  (Ministry of Education, Mari El, Russia)
  Gwynn Powell, Counseling & Human Development Services

• National Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame
  Michael Ferrara, Kinesiology

• Citation Award
  (American College of Sports Medicine)
  Kirk Cureton, Kinesiology

• Technology Teacher Educator of the Year
  (Council on Technology Teacher Education)
  Roger B. Hill, Workforce Education, Leadership & Social foundations

• Wilkinson Meritorious Service Award
  (International Technology Education Association)
  Roger B. Hill, Workforce Education, Leadership & Social foundations

• Collegiate Teacher of the Year
  John Robert Gregg Award
  (National Business Education Association)
  Wanda Stitt-Gohdes, Workforce Education, Leadership & Social foundations

• Outstanding Reviewer of the Year
  (American Educational Research Journal)
  Linda Harklau, Language & Literacy Education

• Reese House Social Justice Advocate of the Year
  (Counselors for Social Justice, a division of American Counseling Association)
  Deryl Bailey, Counseling & Human Development Services

UGA HONORS

• UGA Creative Research Medal
  Jerome Morris, Workforce Education, Leadership & Social Foundations

• Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship
  Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Lifelong Learning, Educational Administration & Policy

Faculty Books
(2010)

A Guide to Authentic e-Learning
(Routledge)
Jan Herrington, Thomas C. Reeves, Ron Oliver
Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
Written for teaching professionals in higher education who teach online.

Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Assessment and Accommodation
(Guilford Press)
Noel Gregg and Donald D. Deshler
Educational  Psychology & Instructional Technology
This book helps educators and clinicians navigate the maze of laws, policies, and scientific research relating to diagnostic and intervention decision making for adolescents and adults. It provides clear guidance on how to conduct and document evidence-based assessments and select appropriate instructional and testing accommodations.

A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Responding to Bullying
(Research Press)
Arthur M. Horne, Jennifer L. Stoddard, and Christopher D. Bell
Counseling & Human Development Services
This unique manual was developed to help parents assist their children in dealing with bullying situations. It can be used independently or serve as the parent involvement component for a Bully Buster’s school-based program. The book promotes an understanding of the nature and extent of bullying— the physical, emotional and educational consequences to children who are targets of bullying, who do the bullying, or who as bystanders are directly affected by witnessing bullying and victimization. Includes case examples based on the experiences of real families.

Adolescents Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, & Popular Culture
(Peter Lang Publishing)
Donna Alvermann
Language & Literacy Education
A compilation of work by teachers and researchers from across three continents focusing on ways to incorporate and use the digital literacies that young people bring to school.

Bring It to Class: Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning
(Teachers College Press)
Donna Alvermann
Language & Literacy Education
Co-written with two COE alumnae – Margaret Hagood and Alison Heron Hruby – this book explores the usefulness of pop culture in the classroom.

Children’s fractional knowledge
(Springer)
Leslie P. Steffe and John Olive
Mathematics & Science Education
Results of a 3-year longitudinal teaching experiment with 3rd, 4th and 5th grade children that point the way to a major improvement in the teaching of fractions in elementary school that fit within children’s thinking.  

Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development: Learning Teaching
(Routledge)
Viv Ellis, Anne Edwards and Peter Smagorinsky
Language & Literacy Education
This is an international volume which clarifies the purpose of initial (pre-service) teacher education and continuing professional development, and the role of universities and higher education personnel in these processes. An edited collection of chapters by leading researchers from the UK, the US and Europe, it gains coherence from its theoretical orientation and substantive focus on teacher learning.

Developmentalism in Early Childhood and Middle Grades Education
(Palgrave Macmillan)
Kyunghwa Lee and Mark D. Vagle
Elementary & Social Studies Education
The contributors challenge dominant discourses and practices in the fields of early childhood and middle grades education based on the last century’s grand developmental theories. Exploring issues related to developmentalism within and across the fields, the contributors provide new language and perspectives for the education of young children, young adolescents, and teachers in both fields.

Diagnostic Measurement Theory, Methods and Applications
(Guilford Press)
Jonathan Templin and Robert A. Henson
Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of diagnostic classification models (DCMs), which are useful for statistically driven diagnostic decision making including educational assessment and clinical psychology. For the first time in a single volume, the authors present the key conceptual underpinnings and methodological foundations for applying these models in practice.

Diversity and Equity in Science Education: Research, Policy, and Practice
(Teachers College Press)
Okhee Lee and Cory A. Buxton
Elementary & Social Studies Education
A comprehensive, state-of-the-field analysis of theories and strategies for improving the teaching and learning of science in our increasingly diverse classrooms.

Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 35
(Springer)
Michael Orey, Stephanie A. Jones, and Robert M. Branch
Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
The evolution of educational technology has seen a shift from hardware and software to tactics and techniques. This book offers the reader a snapshot of the moment and a look ahead to issues most likely to shape the immediate future.

Ethics Code Commentary and Case Illustrations
(American Psychological Association)
Linda Campbell
Counseling & Human Development Services
A text commenting on and illustrating the ethical standards the APA has adopted for the professional behavior of psychologists.

Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research
(Guilford Press)
Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer and Peter Smagorinsky
Language & Literacy Education
The first comprehensive research handbook of its kind, this volume showcases innovative approaches to understanding adolescent literacy learning in a variety of settings. Distinguished contributors examine how well adolescents are served by current instructional practices and highlight ways to translate research findings more effectively into sound teaching and policymaking.

Handbook of School-Family Partnerships
(Routledge)
Sandra L. Christenson and Amy Reschley
Elementary & Social Studies Education
This is the first comprehensive review of what is known about the effects of home-school partnerships on student and school achievement. It presents evidence-based practices for working with families across developmental stages, and provides an agenda for future research and policy.

Honky Tonk Angels: Negotiating Masculinity in a Country-Western Gay Bar
(VDM Verlag)
Corey Johnson
Counseling & Human Development Services
Informed by feminist theory and critiques of masculinity, this narrative ethnography focuses on how gay men come to understand and negotiate the meaning of masculinity in a country-western gay bar. The book documents an array of factors in elucidating how organized social space can allow non-heterosexuals to both resist and reinforce compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic gender ideologies in and through leisure.

Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach
(Springer)
Robert M. Branch
Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
An instructional design primer that addresses the current proliferation of complex educational development models, particularly multimedia and online learning environments.

Introduction to Sport Law
(Human Kinetics)
John O. Spengler, Paul Anderson, Dan Connaughton and Thomas Baker
Kinesiology
A comprehensive text on legal issues in sport, Introduction to Sport Law delivers the information students will need and sport management professionals require in order to navigate liability issues, protect the legal rights of their employees and athletes, and manage legal risk in their professions. Filled with real-world cases and examples, the text provides students with timely and relevant information that will help build enthusiasm for their future careers.

Literacy in the Welcoming Classroom: Creating Family-School Partnerships that Support Student Learning
(Teachers College Press)
JoBeth Allen
Language & Literacy Education
Showcases stories of what works when teachers in elementary school classrooms partner with families with a focus on learning.

Mathematics Teacher Education
(Springer)
Patricia S. Wilson
Mathematics & Science Education
A resource guide series for teachers, teacher educators and graduate students introducing and critically reflecting new ideas, concepts and findings of research in teacher education.

Multiculturalism on Campus Theories, Models and Practices for Understanding Diversity and Creating Inclusion
(Counterpoints)
Michael Cuyjet, Mary F. Howard-Hamilton, Diane L. Cooper
Counseling & Human Development Services
This is the first text to gather in a single volume the related theories, assessment methods, environmental issues and application issues pertinent to the study and practice of multiculturalism in higher education.

New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion
(John Benjamins)
Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter
Language & Literacy Education
This book unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages.

Once Upon a Life Science Book: 12 Interdisciplinary Activities to Create Confident Science Readers
(NSTA Press)
Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
Mathematics & Science Education
This book helps middle and high school teachers improve their students’ reading abilities and teach life science content simultaneously through clearly outlined, inquiry-based lessons.

Realizing Social Justice
(American Psychological Association)
Maureen E. Kenny, Arthur M. Horne, Pamela Orpinas, and Le’Roy E. Reese
Counseling & Human Development Services
This book presents the theoretical, conceptual, methodological and ethical foundations that inform a social justice vision of prevention. It examines the design, conduct and assessment of preventive interventions in a variety of contexts (community, workplace, school, family) and across various targeted psychopathologies or “bad behaviors,” such as depression, aggressive/delinquent youth, alcoholism/substance abuse, domestic violence, poor health practices and racism/sexism.

Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory & Practice
(Sage)
Kathyrn Roulston
Lifelong Education, Administration, & Policy
Offering a theoretically-informed guide for researchers learning how to interview in the social sciences, this book provides a practical approach to interviewing, helping researchers to learn about themselves as interviewers in ways that will inform the design, conduct, analysis, and representation of interview data.

Scholarly practices and inquiry in the preparation of mathematics teachers
(Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Monograph Series, VI).
Denise Mewborn (co-editor)
Mathematics & Science Education

RTI in Practice: A Practical Guide to Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Interventions in Your School
(Wiley)
James L. McDougal, Suzanne B. Graney, James A. Wright, and Scott P. Ardoin
Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
An innovative guide that presents concrete, balanced perspectives and directions for implementing an effective Response to Intervention (RTI) model in your school. The book addresses effective academic programs for all students, how to use data to make decisions in general education, guidelines for setting goals, monitoring progress and graphing intervention outcomes, and multicultural considerations.

Realistic case scenarios appear throughout to bring the implementation strategies to life, and the book is packaged with a CD-ROM containing numerous reproducible and customizable forms, surveys and screening tools, as well as an annotated list of resources for charting and monitoring individual student and classroom progress.

Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
(University of North Carolina Press)
Ronald Butchart
Elementary and Social Studies Education
The definitive book on freedmen’s teachers in the South as well as an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African-American education.

Single Subject Research Methodology in Behavioral Sciences
(LEA).
David Gast
Communication Sciences & Special Education
Written for student researchers, practitioners, and university faculty interested in answering applied research questions and objectively evaluating educational and clinical practices.

The Dynamics of Writing Instruction: A Structured Process Approach for Middle and High School
(Portsmouth)
Peter Smagorisnky, Larry R. Johannessen, Elizabeth A. Kahn, and Thomas M. McCann
Language & Literacy Education
An indispensable companion for scaffolding the writing process, this book is a guide to working with any student who could benefit from a structured approach. The book is packed full of how-tos, offering everything a teacher needs to get started: gateway activities, strategies, handouts, and a blueprint of possibilities to consider while interpreting and implementing the curriculum.

The Foundations of Instructional Technology
(Free wiki-based textbook)
Michael Orey (Co-Editor)
Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
This book introduces people to the field of instructional technology in an accessible way, then provides an overview to the subfields and issues that have developed within and surrounding instructional technology.

The Handbook of Race and Adult Education: A Resource for Dialogue on Racism
(Jossey-Bass)
Vanessa Sheared, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Scipio A. J. Colin III, and Elizabeth Peterson
This landmark book provides the field of adult and continuing education with a model for the discussion of race and racism from social, educational, political and psychological perspectives, and seeks to articulate a conceptual challenge to the ethnocentric focus of the discussion in the field.

The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions
(Palgrave Macmillan)
Billy Hawkins
Kinesiology
Examines the controversial relationship between predominantly white NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI’s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black athletes’ experiences at PWI’s. Hawkins provides a conceptual framework for understanding the structural arrangements of PWI’s and how they present challenges to black athletes’ academic success.

Troubling the Waters: Fulfilling the Promise of Quality Public Schooling for Black Children
(Teachers College Press)
Jerome Morris
Workforce Education, Leadership & Social Foundations
An empirically based research foundation for a new scholarly movement in African Americans’ quest for quality schooling.  Based on extensive fieldwork in schools and communities in St. Louis and Atlanta, the book captures the experiences of today’s African-American families like no other book. Reframing the debates around urban schooling, Morris offers an empirically based, research foundation for a new approach to quality schooling for African Americans. In this contemporary critique, Morris counters the views by many neoconservatives that racism no longer exists, while simultaneously offering a poignant analysis of the desegregation-only paradigm toward achieving Brown s promises.

Alumni Recognition

INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL HONORS

DoDEA Teacher of the Year
Susan Morris (B.S.Ed., ’90; M.Ed. ’93), who teaches social studies and Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) to 7th and 8th grade students at Boeblingen Elementary and Middle School in the Heidelberg District of Germany, was named the 2010 United States Department of Defense Education Activity’s Teacher of the Year.

National Middle School Principal of the Year
Sheila Kahrs (EdD ’92), principal of Haymon-Morris Middle School in Winder, was named 2010 Middle School Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. In addition, Steven Miletto (EdD ’09), principal of R. L. Osborne High School in Marietta, was one of three finalists for National High School Principal of the Year honors.

Principal of Nation’s No. 1 High School
Evan Glazer, (Ph.D. ’03), principal of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., has led his school to the top ranking for the third straight year by U.S. News & World Report as the best in the nation in terms of education provided and student test scores from among more than 21,000 American public high schools.

First Arab woman to receive tenure in Israel
Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija (Ph.D. ’97), a graduate of the University of Georgia College of Education has become the first Israeli Arab woman to receive tenure by her promotion as associate professor at an Israeli research university.

Outstanding Young Educator Honoree
Chris Canter (Ed.S. ‘09), a high school English teacher in Marietta, was recently named 2010 Outstanding Young Educator Honoree by the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Design.

Georgia’s 2010 Teacher of the Year
Gwen Desselle, who teaches social studies at Colquitt County High School, was named Georgia’s 2010 Teacher of the Year. Desselle earned her education specialist degree in secondary education from UGA in 2005.

First Great American Teacher
Aimée Burgamy (Ph.D. ’09), a middle school art teacher in Lilburn, who serves as the lead teacher for 25 middle school art teachers in Gwinnett County, was named the first Great American Teacher by the Ron Clark Academy.

STATE HONORS

Georgia 2011 Middle School Principal of Year
Huntington Middle School (Houston County) principal Gwendolyn Taylor has been recognized as Georgia’s 2011 Middle School Principal of the Year. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership from UGA.

Georgia 2010 High School Principal of Year
Steven Miletto (EdD ’09), principal of R. L. Osborne High School in Marietta, was named the 2010 Georgia High School principal of the Year. He later became one of three finalists for the National High School Principal of the Year honors.