Faculty in the Elementary Education program are drawn not only from the ranks of SESP – but many are seasoned practitioners and leaders in prestigious elementary schools throughout the Chicagoland area.
The faculty's commitment to both teaching and working as education practitioners enables them to present theories alongside relevant teaching examples. This enlivens lectures, deepens discussions, and adds significance and context to what students learn in the classroom.
Faculty and students form an intellectual and professional community that examines the meaning and implications of contemporary issues in education and that integrates inquiry and theory with practice.
Vice President for Student Affairs , Northwestern University
Instructor, MSED 451 "Strategic Management in Student Affairs"
B.S. Vocational Rehabilitation and Business , Penn State University , 1969
M.A. Communication, Counseling and Higher Education Administration , Penn State University , 1974
Ph.D. Public Adminstration/Management with Cognate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology , Old Dominion University , 1993
Instructor, MSED 451 "Assessment in Higher Education"
Instructor, MSED 402 "Social Contexts of Education"
Principal Investigator, Teagle Assessment Project
Graduate and undergraduate, cognitive and non-cognitive student outcomes
Assessment of higher education quality
Social contexts of education
BA, Political Science , College of Wooster , 1990
MA, Political Science , Rutgers University , 1996
Ph.D., Political Science , Rutgers University , 2000
Philosophy of education, teacher education, interpretive discussion, philosophy of psychology.
BA, Music, Religion/Philosophy , Cornell College , 1965
MA, Curriculum and Instruction , University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1966
PhD, Philosophy of Education , University of Chicago , 1976
Instructor, MSED 466 "Budgeting & Finance in Higher Ed"
Associate Vice President , Change Management, Northwestern University
BA, History , Plymouth State University , 1981
MA, Higher Education Administration , University of Michigan , 1993
PhD, Higher Education Administration , University of Michigan , 1996
• Healthy development across childhood
• Adolescent experiences as targets, bullies and bystanders
• The intersection of student, teacher, community and content in the context of developing classroom and systemic curriculae to address issues of school failure, violence, and substance abuse among school-aged children
• The development of personalized secondary schools
BA , University of Cincinnati , 1966
MSW , University of Michigan , 1974
MSEd , Roosevelt University , 1991
EdD , Northern Illinois University , 1997
Post-Doc , Harvard University Graduate School of Education , 1999
Co-Cordinator , SESP Spencer Research Training Program
Cultural contexts affecting learning broadly and literacy specifically; teacher preparation and development; classroom discourse; urban education.
BA, The Teaching of Secondary School English , University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana , 1966
MA, English , University of Chicago , 1969
PhD, Education (Curriculum and Instruction) , University of Chicago , 1991
Lewis currently heads a large-scale university consortium to study welfare reform efforts in Illinois. In another current project he is developing a new Suburban Action Research Project that will deliver technical assistance to suburbs struggling with social problems. It will concentrate on issues of homelessness and crime prevention in its initial phase.
BA, Political Science , Stanford University , 1968
PhD, History of Consciousness , University of California at Santa Cruz , 1980
Student learning in higher and profession education
, faculty development, faculty conceptions and approaches to teaching, faculty conceptions of learning in research and teaching, variation theory
BA, Philosophy and English , University of Toronto , 1974
BA Specialist Degree, Philosophy , University of Toronto , 1975
PhD, Education , University of London, UK , 1995
Instructor, LRNSCI 435 "New Approaches in Science Teaching"
Current interests: Instructional materials design, Professional Development of Teachers, Scientific Modeling, Evolutionary Mechanisms, Visualization, Computational Thinking and Agent Based Modeling.
Instructor, LRNSCI 435 "New Approaches in Science Teaching"
The design of learning environments and curriculum materials for science that support authentic practices including explanation, argumentation, and designing investigations. His research examines the cognitive and social interaction aspects of scientific inquiry, principles for scaffolding practices in software and curriculum materials, teaching pratices, and curriculum design frameworks.
BA, Psychology , University of Pennsylvania , 1977
MA, Psychology , New York University , 1979
PhD, Cognitive Science , Yale University , 1983
Conceptual change in science; programming environments for learning; external representations in science and mathematics.
BA, Physics , Princeton University , 1985
MA, Physics , University of California, Berkeley , 1989
PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , University of California, Berkeley , 1996
Director of Undergraduate Education, School of Education and Social Policy
Mathematics teaching and learning; teacher cognition and teacher education.
BA, Mathematics , University of Chicago , 1985
MA, Mathematics , University of California, San Diego , 1987
PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , University of California, Berkeley , 1996
Bachelor of Science, Engineering , Tulane University , 1982
Juris Doctor , Northwestern University , 1985
NU-Teach (Alternative Certification) , Northwestern University , 2000
Instructor, MSED 402 "Social Contexts of Education"
Culture and mathematical thinking, informal learning/out-of-school practices, elementary and middle school mathematics instruction, early childhood education, teacher development, mathematical representation
Associate Director , Higher Education Administration and Policy Program
Faculty research that includes productivity, enhancing research and teaching, motivation, new and junior faculty issues, professional development for K-12 teachers to improve math and science teaching, gender issues, and females in science.
BA, Chemistry , College of Wooster , 1982
MS, Polymer Chemistry , Carnegie Mellon University , 1986
PhD, Higher Education Administration , University of Michigan , 1991
BFA , College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois (Champaign) , 1970
MA , College of Education, Stanford University , 1972
Summer Session , Harvard Graduate School of Education , 1976
Standards-based teacher education programs (i.e., CEC, NCATE), performance-based assessments. Published research includes affective and attributional factors affecting students with exceptional needs.
BA, Organ Performance , Northwestern University , 1975
MA, Learning Disabilities & Behavior Disorders , Northeastern Illinois University , 1989
PhD, Special Education , University of Illinois at Chicago , 1993
