Trudy Banta, Ed.D.

Professor, Higher Education

Phone:

317-274-4111

Email:

tbanta@iupui.edu

Recipient of ten national awards for her work, Dr. Banta has consulted with faculty and administrators in 47 states, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates on the topic of outcomes assessment and has given invited addresses on this topic at national conferences in Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Scotland, and Spain. She has developed and coordinated 26 national assessment conferences in the U.S. and 15 international conferences held in Australia, Austria, England, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States. Banta has written or edited 18 published volumes on assessment, contributed 30 chapters to other published works, and written more than 300 articles and reports. She is the founding editor of , a bi-monthly periodical published since 1989 by Jossey-Bass and winner of a national award for overall excellence in 2003 and the APEX Award for Editorial Writing in 2012.

Beth Berghoff, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture and Language Education

Phone:

317-278-1108

Email:

bberghof@iupui.edu

I joined the faculty of IUPUI in 1995 after a career as an elementary teacher and three years as a Reading Consultant for the Indiana Department of Education. My home department is Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, and I have served as Chair of Teacher Education and Chair of Graduate Programs for the School of Education. I love teaching new teachers and working with them out in the schools. I enjoy teaching a wide variety of graduate courses, including classes about multiliteracies and the role of the arts in learning. I also spend time each year working with school districts to design meaningful professional development experiences in literacy teaching and technology. My favorite professional development initiative in Indianapolis is the Indiana Partnership for Young Writers. I work with the Director, Dr. Susan Adamson, to write grants and find support for our partnership schools to participate in this project. My research is entwined with all of the different facets of my teaching, but I am most interested in theorizing literacy as far more than just language and demonstrating how learning can lead to creative and divergent ends at the same time as it meets minimal standards.

Sha'Kema Blackmon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Counselor Education

Phone:

317-274-6850

Email:

shblackm@iupui.edu

Natasha Flowers, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor, Teacher Education

Phone:

317-278-3037

Email:

nflowers@iupui.edu

Natasha Flowers primarily teaches in the Elementary Education program. She has led university-school partnerships in Wayne Township and Indianapolis Public Schools.

Lonni Gill, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Social Studies and Teacher Education

Phone:

317-278-6247

Email:

loagill@iupui.edu

This is my tenth year teaching in higher education, the past 3 years as Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Studies and Teacher Education at IUPUI. My passion is developing curriculum and teaching interns to do the same with authentic learning tasks and critical thinking. Prior to this, I was a Visiting Professor at IUPUI for 3 years as well as one year ABD doctoral candidate teaching at IUPUI. Three years before my IUPUI teaching experiences, I was a doctoral candidate at IUB where I also taught for 3 years. I have a wide range of teaching experiences which are listed in my courses. Eleven years ago I left the elementary classroom in a southern suburb of Chicago where I had taught for 14 years; 5 years of kindergarten, 8 years of first grade and one year of fourth grade. I co-wrote the kindergarten curriculum based on Social Studies and Science themes that were integrated with Literacy/Writing and Mathematics. This curriculum was presented for 5 years at the Illinois Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development for Kindergarten teachers. Additionally, I taught conceptual mathematics methods to teachers during the school year. Preceding my fourth grade year, I trained in Portland, OR with Susan Kovalik learning Backward Design for an intensive week and the year prior spent an intensive week in Chicago with Robin Fogarty and Brain Compatible Learning. I was able to teach Backward Design to my fourth graders and during our inquiry learning, they set up a Micro-society in our classroom complete with economic and judicial systems.

Linda Houser, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean for Program Evaluation and Assessment

Phone:

317-278-3353

Email:

lhouser@iupui.edu

Dr. Houser has 10 years of experience teaching mathematics in the public schools as well as numerous years of teaching administrative experience at the university level. She has served on more than twenty national or state NCATE accreditation teams and served as chair in over fifteen of them. She has completed the INTASC Mathematics Academy III and is an active member of the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) at the state and local level having served as president for the state organization and is currently on the Board of Director for the national organization. Her interests are the teaching of mathematics for conceptual understanding and using storytelling to support mathematical understanding. She is involved at the state and national level in supporting education units in the design and implementation of unit assessment systems for their teacher education programs.

Robin Hughes, Ph.D.

Executive Associate Dean; Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies-Student Affairs Higher Education

Phone:

317-274-6817

Email:

roblhugh@indiana.edu

Tambra Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Teacher Education

Phone:

317-274-2290

Email:

tambjack@iupui.edu

Deb Keller, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Phone:

317-274-6853

Email:

dbkeller@iupui.edu

My focus in course work for the School of Education involves examining the social, philosophical, and historical dimensions of education; and introducing first-year students to the field of education. Most of my scholarship is on service-learning. I incorporate service-learning into my F200 and H341 courses, and this has involved partnerships with schools, a local community center, an after school tutoring program for homeless children, an after school tutoring program for a low-income housing complex, and a program for IPS students aged 18-21 who have special needs. Other research interests include semiotics in education and multicultural education, the latter of which is a component in some of my service-learning scholarship.

Claudette Lands, Ed.D.

Assistant Dean of Student Support and Diversity

Phone:

317-274-3289

Email:

clands@iupui.edu