Aug. 12, 2019

Linda Helmick

Linda Helmick (she, her, hers) earned her Ph.D. in Art Education at Indiana University and currently works as an Associate Teaching Professor of Art Education at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She is an artist/researcher/teacher who grounds her work in the belief that creative expression is a basic human right that should be accessible for all. She promotes creativity as a powerful force for change, healing, and transformation. Her areas of expertise include critical creative work with underserved populations and building art education/art therapy wellness and self-care curricula to better serve those who have experienced trauma. Linda creates art…

Aug. 12, 2018

Robert Petrone

Dr. Robert Petrone (he/him/his), Associate Professor, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work lives between English, American Studies, and Sociology, with applications for Education. The central framework for Dr. Petrone’s integrated program of research, teaching, and service is Critical Youth Studies, which offers an important critique to the dominance of developmentalist frameworks in American society that often position people known as teenagers in deficit ways and naturalize expectations for them rooted in dominant sociocultural norms. From this foundation, Dr. Petrone’s research and teaching explores four lines of inquiry, the most recent of which takes up creative writing as a mode…

Aug. 9, 2018

Lisa Goran

Lisa Goran earned her Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Missouri. Her professional work focuses on teacher preparation and her research lines focus on teacher preparation and the language-literacy connections for students with disabilities.

July 4, 2017

Rosalie (Rose) Metro

I am a teacher-educator and anthropologist of education who draws on my K-12 teaching experiences to understand conflicts that arise around history, identity, and language in the classroom, both in the US and in Southeast Asia. I’ve taught middle school and high school social studies in the Bronx, New York, and in Columbia, Missouri, and which led me to publish several textbooks with Teachers College Press (Teaching US History Thematically: Document Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom—2017/2023; and Teaching World History Thematically: Essential Questions and Document-Based Lessons to Connect Past and Present–2020). Since 2001, I’ve been collaborating with teachers from Myanmar on…

Aug. 15, 2016

Charles Munter

Aug. 3, 2016

Mike Metz

Mike Metz is an Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum at the University of Missouri. He serves as the Emphasis Area Leader for English Education. Mike’s research examines culturally sustaining pedagogies for English classrooms, with a particular focus on the teaching of Critical Language Awareness. Through this research, he explores English teachers’ knowledge and beliefs about English language variation, and students’ responses to learning about language, identity, and social power. His research also explores teacher education pedagogies that help pre-service and in-service teachers take up and enact Critical Language Pedagogies and other culturally responsive…

July 16, 2015

Laura Zangori

Laura Zangori is an Associate Professor of Science Education at the University of Missouri. She teaches and works with students and teachers from elementary through undergraduate classrooms. Her work focuses on how to support teachers and students’ in constructing scientific explanations to understand biological phenomena.

July 16, 2015

Delinda van Garderen

Delinda van Garderen, PhD, is a Professor of special education. Her research interests focus on students with learning disabilities, struggling learners, visual representations in mathematics word problem solving, STEM literacy, argumentation, quantitative reasoning, and teacher practice and development. Recent or current research projects include teacher professional development to integrate STEM literacy in instruction, how students and teachers use representations to solve mathematics word problems, student development and intervention in number (e.g., conservation of quantity, numerical magnitude), and use of scaffolding to plan instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners in science. She has mentored doctoral graduate students in educational…

July 15, 2015

Melissa Stormont

Dr. Melissa Stormont is a Professor in Special Education at MU. Dr. Stormont has published extensive research (over 80 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books and 10 book chapters) on the educational and social needs of children at risk for failure in school.  Dr. Stormont teaches undergraduate and graduate students in special education.  She has had extensive grant experience including serving as a Co-PI on personnel preparation and research grants and is currently a co-PI with Drs. Reinke and Herman on an efficacy trial of the STARS intervention funded by IES (Thompson, PI).  Currently she is an associate editor for the…

July 15, 2015

Marcelle Siegel

Marcelle A. Siegel is a Professor of Science Education at the University of Missouri. She is jointly appointed in the Department of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum and the Department of Biochemistry. Her background in education includes several years in curriculum development for national initiatives, professional development in urban schools, and a focus on understanding and improving assessment practices in science classrooms. After studying biology, she earned a PhD in the interdisciplinary SESAME program (Science and Mathematics Education) at UC Berkeley. Dr. Siegel’s current research focuses on a key obstacle and point of leverage for enhancing learning and teaching—assessment. Her research…