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Department Chair

Heather Linville  Profile of Heather Linville  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.

Academic Department Associate

Tracie Banning  Profile of Tracie Banning  Office hours
Diane Block  Profile of Diane Block  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Special Education
Intellectual Disabilities/Cross-Categorical

ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder
Treasurer, La Crosse Autism Foundation

Mental Health and Resiliency in Education

James Carlson  Profile of James Carlson

Specialty areas:

Social Foundations of Education; Multicultural Education; Culturally Relevant Pedagogy; Literacy Studies

Wen-Chiang Chen  Profile of Wen-Chiang Chen  Office hours

Specialty areas:

K-8 Literacy, Teacher Education, Critical Literacy, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, & Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Rosalie DeFino  Profile of Rosalie DeFino  Rosalie DeFino saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Math Education

Teacher Education

Elementary Teaching

Ann Epstein  Profile of Ann Epstein  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Early Childhood Education, Montessori

Yuko Iwai  Profile of Yuko Iwai

Specialty areas:

literacy, culturally responsive teaching, multicultural children's literature, self-efficacy, multicultural education, teacher education, self-regulated learning

Lema Kabashi  Profile of Lema Kabashi  Office hours

Specialty areas:

 

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Video-Based Instruction
  • Single Subject Research Design

    • Multiple Baseline Design

      • Across Behaviors, Across Participants, Across Settings​

    • A-B- and A-B-A-B Design 

    • Parallel Design

  • Computer Skills  

    • Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint​

  • Learning Management Systems

    • D2L, BlackBoard

  • Technology 

    • Animoto​, VoiceThread, EdPuzzle, Google Drive/Site, Populr, TodaysMeet, Padlet, Wix, Skype, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast, YouTube Channel, PowToon, Pear Deck, Glogster, iMovie

Janet Koll  Profile of Janet Koll  Office hours
Valerie Krage  Profile of Valerie Krage  Valerie Krage saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Early childhood education, family engagement in education, impact of poverty on development and learning.

Amy Lein  Profile of Amy Lein

Specialty areas:

Special Education, universal design for learning, socio-emotional learning

Heather Linville  Profile of Heather Linville  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.

Matt McParker  Profile of Matt McParker  Matt McParker saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Social Studies Education

Multicultural Education

Mid-Level Education

Mariah Pfundheller  Profile of Mariah Pfundheller

Specialty areas:

- Special Education

- Early Childhood Special Education

- Deaf and Hard of Hearing

- Educational Sustainability

- Equity and Inclusion in Education

Jennifer Pierce  Profile of Jennifer Pierce  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Global education; multilingual and multicultural education; TESOL; English as a world language; grammar and pronunciation; cultural identities and language.

Lisa Pitot  Profile of Lisa Pitot  Lisa Pitot saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Science Methods, Assessment, Science Literacy, and Science Communication. Place-based / Project-based learning, and using Socio-scientific Issues to teach Science. 

Denise Rueter  Profile of Denise Rueter

Specialty areas:

Early childhood and Elementary Literacy

J.C. Wagner-Romero  Profile of J.C. Wagner-Romero  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Race and ethnic relations
Student-Family identities and Pierson's power of connection
Latinx & undocumented student and family expectations & experiences 
Language access and equity
Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy
International and global education
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Daniel Walsh  Profile of Daniel Walsh  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Immigrant English learners in secondary schools, culturally sustaining pedagogy, youth participatory action research/critical ethnographic methods

Julie Welch  Profile of Julie Welch  Office hours

Emeritus Members

  • Burt Altman, Professor, member 1965-1993
  • Barbara Chaney, Assistant Professor, member 1988-2009
  • Ralph Cozad, member 1975-1999
  • Barb Gander, Senior Lecturer, member 2003-2019
  • Kent Koppelman, Professor, member 1979-2007
  • Robert Krajewski, Professor, member 1989-2013
  • Robert Richardson, Associate Professor, member 1990-2009
  • Stuart Robertshaw, member 1974-1998
  • Joyce Shanks, Associate Professor, member 1990-2018
  • Greg Walsko, Associate Professor, member 1988-2013
  • Gary Willhite, Associate Professor, member 2008-2020