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Faculty
| Chairperson: | Dr. Benedicta Agbarha | |
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| Spring 2012 Adjunct Faculty: |
APB and Secondary Education Programs: Paul Branagan Marite Burns James Calnan Chris Christopher Evelyn Dewar Risa Dubin Leo Egan Thomas Evans Frank Giuliano Lyman Goding Jack Hagerty Wayne Kivi Rena Klein John Kucich Terri Lerman Ruth Perrone Laurie Robertson-Lorant Robert Stromberg Educational Leadership: Peter Cannone Patrick Higgins Kristin Hokanson Davida Fox-Melanson Jeri Katz Cynthia McNally Joseph Nicholson Bethann Orr Instructional Technology: James D'Attilio Joanne McDonald
Heidi Driscoll Master's Core: Radha Kalathil Robert McManus |
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| Department Telephone Number: (508) 531-1320 | ||
Secondary Education and Professional Programs Department Full-time Faculty
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Dr. Benedicta (Bennie) Agbarha Chair and Associate Professor Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Coordinator, Educational Leadership Program Adrian Tinsley Center Room 214A (508) 531-2932 |
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| Benedicta "Bennie" Agbarha is an associate professor and Chair of 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. Agbarha's professional areas of interest include educational leadership, educational research and evaluation, equity in education, and conflict management. Dr. Agbarha is a full-time faculty member at Bridgewater State University 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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John-Michael Bodi Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Secondary Education Program Coordinator, Master's Core Program Adrian Tinsley Center Room 217 (508) 531-2837 |
| 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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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 |
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Tom comes to Bridgewater State University after ten years of teaching high school mathematics in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In addition, 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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Anne Hird Associate Professor Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Instructional Technology Program Hart Hall Room 344 (508) 531-2027 |
| Anne Hird is an Associate 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. Anne holds degrees from Brown University, Simmons College, and the University of Rhode Island-Rhode Island College. |
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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 |
| Chris arrived at Bridgewater State University 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 BSU in the areas of school law, the superintendency, and public relations. Chris 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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Stephen Nelson Associate Professor Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Educational Leadership Program Adrian Tinsley Center Room 233 (508) 531-2037 |
| Stephen J. Nelson is an Associate 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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Associate Professor Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Coordinator, Instructional Technology Program Adrian Tinsley Center Room 209 (508) 531-2938 |
| Thanh T. Nguyen is an Associate 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 University, 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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Associate Professor Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Graduate Coordinator: Educational Leadership Program Adrian Tinsley Center Room 227 (508) 531-2230 |
| As an Associate 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 University, Smith College, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. | |
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Professor Department of Secondary Education and Professional Programs Secondary Education Program Adrian Tinsley Center Room 207 (508) 531-2199 |
| Having experienced all or part of five decades at Bridgewater
State University, 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 University 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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Staff
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Administrative Assistant I Department of Secondary
Education and Professional Adrian Tinsley Center Room 214 (508) 531-1320 |
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