Educational Studies
Our people
Department Chair
- 335 Morris Hall
- hlinville@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8142
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
- Lecturer
- Morris Hall
- dblock@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6894
Specialty areas:
Special Education
Intellectual Disabilities/Cross-Categorical
ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder
Treasurer, La Crosse Autism Foundation
Mental Health and Resiliency in Education
- Associate Professor
- 185B Morris Hall
- jcarlson@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8140
Specialty areas:
Social Foundations of Education; Multicultural Education; Culturally Relevant Pedagogy; Literacy Studies
- Associate Professor
- 365B Morris Hall
- wchen@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8144
Specialty areas:
K-8 Literacy, Teacher Education, Critical Literacy, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, & Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
- Assistant Professor
- 300C Morris Hall
- rdefino@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5403
Specialty areas:
Math Education
Teacher Education
Elementary Teaching
- Professor
- 340C Morris Hall
- aepstein@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8145
Specialty areas:
Early Childhood Education, Montessori
- Professor
- 365A Morris Hall
- yiwai@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5407
Specialty areas:
literacy, culturally responsive teaching, multicultural children's literature, self-efficacy, multicultural education, teacher education, self-regulated learning
- Associate Professor
- 300B Morris Hall
- lkabashi@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8143
Specialty areas:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Video-Based Instruction
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Single Subject Research Design
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Multiple Baseline Design
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Across Behaviors, Across Participants, Across Settings
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A-B- and A-B-A-B Design
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Parallel Design
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Computer Skills
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Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint
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Learning Management Systems
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D2L, BlackBoard
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Technology
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Animoto, VoiceThread, EdPuzzle, Google Drive/Site, Populr, TodaysMeet, Padlet, Wix, Skype, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast, YouTube Channel, PowToon, Pear Deck, Glogster, iMovie
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- Assistant Professor
- 340A Morris Hall
- vkrage@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8136
Specialty areas:
Early childhood education, family engagement in education, impact of poverty on development and learning.
- Associate Professor
- Morris Hall
- alein@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Special Education, universal design for learning, socio-emotional learning
- Professor
- 335 Morris Hall
- hlinville@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8142
Specialty areas:
Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.
- Associate Professor
- 325B Morris Hall
- mmcparker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8152
Specialty areas:
Social Studies Education
Multicultural Education
Mid-Level Education
- Assistant Professor
- Morris Hall
- mpfundheller@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
- Special Education
- Early Childhood Special Education
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Educational Sustainability
- Equity and Inclusion in Education
- Teaching Assistant Professor
- 240C Morris Hall
- jpierce@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6566
Specialty areas:
Global education; multilingual and multicultural education; TESOL; English as a world language; grammar and pronunciation; cultural identities and language.
- Assistant Professor
- 300A Morris Hall
- lpitot@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8139
Specialty areas:
Science Methods, Assessment, Science Literacy, and Science Communication. Place-based / Project-based learning, and using Socio-scientific Issues to teach Science.
- Assistant Professor
- 160C Morris Hall
- croberts@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8146
- Assistant Professor
- 160D Morris Hall
- drueter@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5408
Specialty areas:
Early childhood and Elementary Literacy
- Assistant Professor
- 160B Morris Hall
- jwagner-romero@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8735
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)
- Assistant Professor
- Morris Hall
- dwalsh@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Immigrant English learners in secondary schools, culturally sustaining pedagogy, youth participatory action research/critical ethnographic methods
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