Dr. Nicola F. Mason
Professor, Chair
Contact Information
Department: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 427
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: nicola.mason@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2154
Expert Areas: The uses of music as an instructional tool in the general elementary classroom (American Orff-Schulwerk Association Research Grant, 2019)
Dr. Sonja H. Yow
Associate Professor, Associate Chair
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 408
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Sonja.Yow@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-1425
Expert areas: Teacher preparation, Social Studies education, and qualitative research.
Ginger M. Cottrell
Administrative Professional II
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 403
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: ginger.cottrell@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-4442
Abby D. Huber
Administrative Professional I
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 427
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: abby.huber@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2154
Dr. April Blakely
Associate Professor
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 415
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: April.Blakely@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2396
Expert Areas: Emergent Literacy; Disciplinary Literacy; the intersection of technology applications and literacy education
Dr. Christopher Budano
Assistant Professor
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 402
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: christopher.budano@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2155
Expert Areas: Social studies education; Curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and qualitative methods.
Dr. Ann Burns
Associate Professor; Coordinator, Educational Leadership Programs
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 400
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: ann.burns@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-1431
Expert Areas: School Culture, Teacher Efficacy, School Improvement, P-12 Education, Equity and Inclusion, School Safety, Principal Preparation, School Leadership
Dr. Roger C. Cleveland
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, & Educational Leadership
Office: Powell 100
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: roger.cleveland@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-6678
Expert Areas: Instructional Equity; School Culture; Achievement of Males of Color
Dr. Connie Hodge
Associate Professor, Corbin Campus Coordinator
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Corbin Campus 130
Mailing Address: One Pennington Way Corbin, KY 40701
Email: Connie.Hodge@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-6776
Expert Areas: University/Schools Clinical Partnerships
Dr. Kevin F. Hub
Executive-in-Residence
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: EKU’s President’s Office
Office: Combs 428
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: kevin.hub@eku.edu
Phone: 270-725-0707
Dr. Tim Jansky
Assistant Professor, Dual Credit Coordinator
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 110
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Timothy.Jansky@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2665
Expert Areas: New Teacher Induction; Literacy; Writing Pedagogy
Dr. Raymond A. Lauk
Associate Professor
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 401
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: raymond.lauk@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2970
Expert Areas: 1.) The impact of sexual orientation on school superintendent leadership, 2.) The impact of organized political groups on local school board elections, 3.) Storytelling
Dr. Mary-Jo Krile
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 412
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: maryjo.krile@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-6057
Expert Areas: Strategies for teaching digital literacy skills to young adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD); promoting social media safety for young adults with IDD; technology use of young adults with IDD; technology support for parents and teachers of young adults with IDD; quantitative, single-subject, and survey research methods.
Dr. Todd McCardle
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Doctoral Program Coordinator, Director of Educator Preparation Accreditation
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 417
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Todd.Mccardle@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-9949
Expert Areas: Equity and social justice in public schools, social movements, and teacher education programs.
Dr. Maria Manning
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 112
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: maria.manning@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-1432
Expert Areas: Special Education/Learning and Behavioral Disorders- pre-service Interdisciplinary collaboration.
Dr. Jason M. Miller
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 102
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Jason.Miller2@eku.edu
Expert Areas: Teacher Fit; Teacher Education; Teacher Retention; Teacher Evaluation; Assessment
Dr. Jamie-Marie Miller
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 103
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: jamie-marie.miller@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2405
Expert Areas: Examining the progression of algebraic thinking in students; math-specific literacy strategies; transparent instructional practices for teaching and assessment; and professional learning in communities of practice. Focus on qualitative methodologies
Dr. Peggy C. Petrilli
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 104
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: peggy.petrilli@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-8724
Expert Areas: Clinical Model in Teacher Preparation; Teacher Preparation; Teacher Efficacy and Use of Data
Dr. Jiyeon Park
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 414
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Jiyeon.Park@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-1171
Expert Areas: Assistive and instructional technology; mathematics interventions for students with disabilities.
Jilliane McCardle
Contact Information
Department: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 404
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: jilliane.mccardle@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-8013
Dr. Julie Harp Rutland
Associate Professor, Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education (IECE) Coordinator
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 107
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Julie.rutland@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-1043
Expert Areas: Early Intervention (EI), family involvement in EI-including siblings, EI with at risk populations (NAS)
Dr. Jeffery Scott Townsend
Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: New Science 3115
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Scott.Townsend@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2157
Expert Areas: Using Rasch Analysis (and Winsteps software) psychometric model for analyzing categorical (bivariate) data in science education. Science inquiry and engineering for children, children and teen’s conceptualization of the particle nature of matter, and energy education in science education.
Dr. William R. Thornburgh
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 109
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: William.Thornburgh@eku.edu
Expert Areas: Informal science education, pre-service teacher education, teacher professional development, equity in science education
Dr. Ali O. Yaylali
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 115
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Ali.Yaylali@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2707
Expert Areas: Graduate writing and mentoring, educational discourses in schools and media, second language acquisition, ESL students’ high school science writing, transformative learning in undergraduate ESL endorsement courses, corpus pedagogy, disciplinary literacy, culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies.
Dr. Ralph L. Turner
Professor, Library/School Media Coordinator, Rank 1 Coordinator
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Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: New Science 3114
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Ralph.Turner@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-8087
Expert Areas: Film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, children’s and young adult literature studies, leadership studies, historical and philosophical foundations of education
Dr. Emily Zuccaro
Associate Professor and Graduate Programs Coordinator
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: Combs 101
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: emily.zuccaro@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-6782
Expert Areas: Literacy education in elementary classrooms, children’s literature and critical literacy, language learning, cultural and linguistic responsive teaching, and qualitative scholarship
Dr. Kwan Yi
Professor
Contact Information
Contact InformationDepartment: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership
Office: New Science 3111
Mailing Address: Combs 427
Email: Kwan.Yi@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2164
Expert Areas: Automated information organization and classification; study of quantitative aspects of information (informetrics); analysis of research productivity and collaboration