Faculty
Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Department Full-time Faculty
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Dr.
Lynne Ruth Yeamans
Chairperson
Associate Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Graduate Coordinator:
Educational Leadership Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 214A
(508) 531-2230
lyeamans@bridgew.edu |
| As an assistant professor, Lynne Yeamans facilitates undergraduate and
graduate learning challenges for prospective middle school (5-8) and high school
(8-12) teacher candidates. She brings to the college programs her
extensive K 12 public school experiences as a teacher and a leader in
education. She holds degrees from Bridgewater State College, Smith
College, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. |
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Dr.
John-Michael Bodi
Assistant Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Secondary Education Program
Coordinator, Master's Core Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 217
(508) 531-2837
jbodi@bridgew.edu |
| Dr. Bodi is an active researcher and successful teacher in
the fields of history and philosophy of education as well as assessment and
evaluation of learning. After almost twenty years in public and private
schools as a classroom teacher and school principal "JM" earned his doctorate
at the University of Texas in Austin. Since that time he's been active
in educational politics as teaching in higher education. |
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Dr. Thomas J. P. Brady
Assistant Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Secondary Education Program
Coordinator, Accelerated Post
Baccalaureate Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 219
(508) 531-2906
thomas.brady@bridgew.edu |
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Tom comes to Bridgewater
State College from ten years as a high school mathematics teacher in Connecticut
and Massachusetts. He taught mathematics and education courses as
an adjunct prior to joining the Secondary Education and Professional Programs
faculty. Tom has a bachelor of arts' degree in Mathematics from
Central Connecticut State University, a master of arts' degree in Instruction
and Curriculum from Saint Joseph College and a doctorate in Educational
Leadership from Central Connecticut State University. |
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Dr.
Benedicta (Bennie) Eyemaro
Associate Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Educational
Leadership Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 227
(508) 531-2932
beyemaro@bridgew.edu
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| Benedicta "Bennie" Eyemaro is an
associate professor
in the Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs. She
earned her Ed.D. in School Administration, Planning, and Policy from the
University of
Massachusetts,
Lowell . Dr.
Eyemaro's professional areas of interest include educational leadership, educational
research and evaluation, equity in education, and conflict management.
Dr. Eyemaro is a full-time faculty member at Bridgewater State College and teaches:
Systems Planning for Educational Leaders, Curriculum Design and Improvement,
Legal and Ethical Issues in Educational Leadership, and Communication between
and among stakeholders. |
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Dr. Phyllis Gimbel Assistant Professor
Department of Secondary Education
and Professional Programs
Educational Leadership Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 231
(508) 531-2835
pgimbel@bridgew.edu |
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Dr. Phyllis Gimbel has enjoyed a lengthy career in
the public education system, serving as middle school principal, foreign
language department chair, and central office superintendent intern and
French and Spanish teacher. For the past four years, she has served as
Coordinator of a multi university- school collaborative. Phyllis received
her doctorate in School Leadership from UMASS Lowell in 2001, a Masters
in Education from Harvard University, and a Masters in French from
Columbia University. She has published a book entitled, "Solutions for
Promoting Principal-Teacher Trust," Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, which is
based on the topic of her dissertation. |
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Dr.
Anne Hird Associate Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Instructional Technology Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 207
(508) 531-2027
ahird@bridgew.edu
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| Anne
Hird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education and
Special Programs. She coordinates and teaches in the Instructional Technology
program. Hird, author of Learning
from Cyber-Savvy Students: How Internet-Age Kids Impact Classroom Teaching,
describes herself as living with one foot on the ground and one foot in "cyberspace."
She has worked with computer technology in schools since 1982. Her experience
ranges from teaching in the Providence Public Schools to directing the $1.1
million Library Power grant across 27 elementary and middle schools. Most
recently, she has spearheaded the effort to move the Instructional Technology
M.Ed. to a fully Web-based degree program. She holds degrees from Brown
University, Simmons College, and the University of Rhode Island-Rhode Island
College. |
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Dr.
T. C. (Chris) Mattocks Associate Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Educational Leadership Program
Advisor - LEAD-Practicum
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 215
(508) 531-1441
(508) 531-5441 FAX
tmattocks@bridgew.edu
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| Chris arrived at Bridgewater State College
in 2008 after 43 years in public education as a high school
teacher/coach, superintendent, and college professor. He received his
doctorate in educational leadership from Montana State University in
1987. His career has included work in Montana, Idaho, and Massachusetts.
While serving as superintendent of the Bellingham (MA) school district
from 2002-2008, he was also a Visiting Lecturer for BSC in the areas of
school law, the superintendency, and public relations. He teaches
courses in beginning and advanced law, school finance, personnel, and
the superintendency, and serves as coordinator of the LEAD Program. |
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Dr.
Stephen Nelson Assistant Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Educational
Leadership Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 233
(508) 531-2037
s4nelson@bridgew.edu
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| Stephen J. Nelson is an Assistant Professor of
Educational Leadership. Professor Nelson holds a Ph.D. in Professional Higher
Education Administration from the University of Connecticut, and is the author
of "Leaders in the Crucible: The Moral Voice of College Presidents"
(2000) and "College Presidents: Voices of Civic Virtue and the Common Good of
Democracy in the Journal of Leadership Studies (Winter 2002). He is currently
completing research on a Kellogg Foundation project about college and
university presidents: "Character and Courage in the Academy," and is writing
another book based on this study featuring interviews with fifteen
contemporary current and former presidents. Professor Nelson is also a
Research Associate in the Education Department at Brown University and a
Fellow in the Society for Values in Higher Education. His B.A. is in history
from Gettysburg College, and Professor Nelson also holds the degrees of Master
of Arts in Religious Studies from the Hartford Seminary and Master of Divinity
from Andover Newton Theological School. |
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Dr. Thanh Nguyen
Associate Professor
Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs
Coordinator,
Instructional Technology Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 209
(508) 531-2938
tnguyen@bridgew.edu |
| Thanh T. Nguyen is
an assistant professor in the Instructional Technology Ed.M. Program.
She earned her doctorate in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate
School of Education. Before coming to the Bridgewater State College, Dr.
Nguyen served as Associate Vice President of the Society for Technology Information
and Teacher Education (SITE) Information Technology Council, Technology Leader
for the Great Cities Universities (GCU), Urban Educator Corps Partnership Institute,
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3), Lecturer, University
Supervisor and Chairwoman of the Technology in Education Committee at UMass
Boston Graduate College of Education, online trainer for the WIDE World's Harvard
University online courses, and Instructional Leadership Team Consultant, Boston-Harvard
Leadership Development Initiative for the Whole School Change, Harvard School
Partnerships. Currently, her research interests involve designing curriculum
for Information Age learners. In the transformation from Industrial Age
to Information Age, Dr. Nguyen encourages teachers to rethink and redesign curriculum
for active learning with the use of digital information and global communication
environments. Teachers need to redefine the requirements and skills
for the global community and its marketplace in the twenty-first century. |
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Dr. Raymond ZuWallack
Professor
Department of Secondary Education and
Professional Programs
Secondary Education Program
Adrian Tinsley Center
Room 207
(508) 531-2199
rzuwallack@bridgew.edu
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| Having experienced all or part of five decades at Bridgewater
State College, it is evident that "Dr. Z" has been here a long time...a
very long time! And he's not done yet. He is very fond of Bridgewater
State College and likes the people who work and study here. He earned a doctorate in educational psychology from Clark University
in Worcester, MA. His research and scholarly areas of interest have varied
over the years. Today he strives to uncover functional alternative or
non-traditional strategies for delivering meaningful instruction in the college
classroom. Visit his faculty Web page and observe and decide for yourself
whether he's learned anything useful.
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Last Modified: June 11, 2009
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