Project Staff
Co-Director: Laurie A. Dinnebeil, Ph.D.
Professor and Daso Herb Chair
Early Childhood Education, Higher Education & Special Education
laurie.dinnebeil@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419-530-4118
Fax: 419-530-7261
As Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the grant, Laurie's role in the grant is to coordinate partnerships with community colleges and with the practicum sites. She will assist Camille in the development and delivery of professional development activities and coordinate evaluation efforts. Additionally, she will coordinate the annual workshop with community college faculty. She is the liaison with the Advisory Board and will oversee the administrative activities of the grant.
Co-Director: Camile Catlett, M.A.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
camille.catlett@unc.edu
As the Co-Director, Camille will assist Laurie in the development and delivery of professional development activities for community college faculty and also will help identify and coordinate field experiences and practicum sites. Additionally, she will provide support to the project in the redesign and implementation of the community college ECE curricula and will conduct follow-up sessions to maintain support for the programs.
Curriculum Advisor/Consultant: William McInerney, Ph.D.
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Early Childhood Education, Higher Education & Special Education
william.mcinerney@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419-530-2284
As the consultant on this project, Bill will be responsible for data collection and field experience enhancement. In addition, he will assist Laurie & Camille with professional development and technical assistance to the Early Childhood faculty at Grand Rapids Community College, Mott Community College, Monroe County Community College and a 4th community college to be determined.
Statistics Consultant: Christina Fox, Ph.D.
Foundations of Education
chris.fox@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419-530-2473
Fax: 419-530-8447
Dr. Fox's expertise is in developing new methodologies and measures for high stakes decision-making. Research focuses on constructing meaningful measures in the social studies.
Statistics Consultant: Sveltana Beltyukova
Foundations of Education
svetlana.beltyukova@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419-530-4204
Expertise in Rasch measurement development and validation of assessment instruments, test equating, item banking and program evaluation. She has extensive experience with large-scale data analysis.
NATURES Consultant: TBD