Faculty and Staff
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| Marcie Abramson bramson@brandeis.edu |
Marcie Abramson is a Lecturer in Education. She teaches ED 105a: School Curriculum and Teaching-Mathematics. She has extensive experience working with and teaching elementary, middle and high school-aged students. | |
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Ellen Alt Institute for Music & Art ellenalt202@yahoo.com |
Ellen Alt is an artist and a teacher specializing in creativity. She has exhibited her mixed media artwork in the U.S, Israel, Germany, Russia, China and England. One of her pieces was presented to Hillary Clinton in Jerusalem on the occasion of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. |
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Joyce Antler Brown 314 (781) 736-3036 antler@brandeis.edu |
Joyce Antler is the Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies. She is an Education Program affiliated faculty member in education studies and co-faculty leader of the Spencer Program in Educational Research. |
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Howie Baker |
Howie Baker is Executive Director of the Lemberg Children's Center and the early education and care component and supervisor for practicum students. |
| Walter Beevers beevers@brandeis.edu |
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Ann E. Blais ann@brandeis.edu |
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Tara Brown ASAC 216 (781) 736-2046 tmbrown@brandeis.edu |
Tara M. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Education. She holds a doctorate in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the recipient of a Spencer Research Fellowship and a Jacobs Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. |
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Michael Coiner Lemberg Academic Center 159 coiner@brandeis.edu |
Michael Coiner is an Associate Professor of Economics. He has a research interest in the economics of higher edcuation. He teaches Economics 59b, The Economics of Education, an elective for education studies. |
| Robin Dash (781) 736-2163 dash@brandeis.edu |
Robin Dash is a Lecturer in Education and a practicing artist. She teaches ED 158b: Looking with the Learner: Practice and Inquiry and "Making Art" practicum for ED 264a: Foundations of Education: Cultural, Political, and Philosophical Contexts of Schooling in the MAT concentration in elementary education. | |
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Cynthia Davis cynthia.davis@tufts.edu |
Cynthia R. Davis is lecturer in Education teaching Psychology of Student Learning: Adolescence. She graduated (with honors) from Suffolk University in Boston with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Philosophy, and received her Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a doctoral candidate in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Applied Child Development at Tufts University. |
| Kelly Demers ASAC 220 (781) 736-2023 kdemers@brandeis.edu |
Kelly Demers is a Lecturer in Education and is Teacher Education Specialist (Elementary). She works with interns and cooperating teachers to maximize the value of field experiences and supports MAT graduates during the induction phase of their careers. | |
| Jennifer Douglas jdouglas@brandeis.edu |
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Kerry Dunne kdunne@brandeis.edu |
Kerry Dunne is a Lecturer in Education. She teaches ED 269a: Pedagogy of Teaching History and is currently the K-12 Social Studies Director for the Arlington Public Schools. |
| Helen Featherstone ASAC 220 (781) 736-8519 feather1@brandeis.edu |
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Sharon Feiman-Nemser Mandel Center (781) 736-2946 snemser@brandeis.edu |
Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Mandel Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University, is the Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. |
| Leila Joseffer joseffer@brandeis.edu |
Leila Joseffer is a Lecturer in Education in the MAT program. Her areas of interest are language and literacy development. She is also a full-time reading specialist in the Belmont elementary schools. | |
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Rachel Kramer Theodorou rbkramer@brandeis.edu |
Rachel Kramer Theodorou teaches ED 100a, ED 111e, and selected mini-courses in ED 101b. She has been a classroom teacher for 14 years in both public and private elementary schools in New York City and Massachusetts. |
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Sondra Langer slanger@brandeis.edu |
Sondra Langer, Professor of Education Emerita at Lesley University, is a Lecturer in Education. Her interests include the training of elementary school teachers and principals and the dynamic of interaction in the early childhood classroom. |
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Marya Levenson ASAC 217 (781) 736-2001 mlevenso@brandeis.edu |
Marya R. Levenson is Professor of the Practice in Education and the Harry S. Levitan Director of the Brandeis Education Program. |
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Jon A. Levisohn ASAC 123 (781) 736-2941 levisohn@brandeis.edu |
Jon A. Levisohn is Assistant Professor of Jewish Education in the Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. He has taught in middle school and has served as a consultant to K-8 Jewish day schools. |
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Lesley Litman llitman@brandeis.edu |
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Susan Mayer sjmayer@brandeis.edu |
Susan Mayer is a Lecturer in Education. She teaches ED 157b: The Psychology of Student Learning. Susan’s K-12 experience has been primarily in secondary and alternative curriculum development. |
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Deborah Moriarty dsull@brandeis.edu |
Deborah Moriarty is a Lecturer in Education. She teaches ED 107a, Teaching and Learning Reading in Elementary Schools. She co-teaches Ed 101a, Elementary School Curriculum and Teaching: Literacy, Social Studies, and Other Topics in which she focuses content on literacy skills, strategies and techniques. Deborah has taught elementary school for 12 years, 10 of those in first grade. |
| Frances Moyer fmoyer@brandeis.edu |
Frances Moyer is Lecturer in Education. She teaches ED 102a, Secondary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. She received her Master's in Urban Education in 1969 from BC through the Teacher Corp. Program and received her Master's Degree in Public Administration in 1986 through the University of Oklahoma’s Extension Program offered in the Panama Canal zone. |
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Nili Pearlmutter nilip@brandeis.edu |
Nili Pearlmutter is a Lecturer in Education and Senior Teacher Educator at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. She works with MAT students and first year teachers on developing their teaching practice as well as with schools to help them support new teachers. |
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Joseph Reimer KUTZ 133a (781) 736-2996 reimer@brandeis.edu |
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| Sandy Resnick ASAC 220 (781) 736-2024 resnick@brandeis.edu |
Sandy Resnick is the Induction Services Coordinator for the CETE/Brandeis Teacher Induction Program, a new teacher support and teacher leadership program open to teachers in their 1st through 6th years. | |
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Dirck Roosevelt ASAC 219 (781) 736-2050 drooseve@brandeis.edu |
Dirck Roosevelt (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program and Associate Professor of Education. Before coming to Brandeis in 2004, he was on the Educational Studies faculty at the University of Michigan. He taught at the elementary level and was an administrator in public schools and at the Prospect School in Vermont for many years. |
| Ned Rossiter nrossi@brandeis.edu |
Ned Rossiter is a Lecturer in Education and teaches the MAT secondary course ED 267b: Fundamentals of Teaching. |
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| Faye Ruopp fruopp@brandeis.edu |
Faye Ruopp is a LEcturer in Education. She teaches ED 262a: Teaching Mathematics in Elementary Classrooms. She is also co-leader of Math and Mentoring, a cooperative project of Brandeis and the Waltham Public Schools. | |
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Francesca Stark fstark@brandeis.edu |
Francesca Stark teaches an MAT-JDS DeLeT course called, Getting Started: Creating Clear Systems and a Close Community for a Confident and Creative Year of Teaching. Francesca has been a 4th grade teacher and reading specialist for the Brookline Schools since 1993. |
| Serene Victor Mandel Center (781) 736-2099 svictor@brandeis.edu |
Serene Victor, Lecturer and Faculty Leader of the DeLeT/MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) program, comes to the Mandel Center with many years of experience in Jewish education locally and nationally. |
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| Eileen Kell ASAC 215 (781) 736-2002 ekell@brandeis.edu |
Eileen Kell is the Senior Department Coordinator for the Education Program. She has taught middle school English Language Arts and drama in both public and independent schools. | |
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Manuel Tuan |
Manuel Tuan is the MAT Program Coordinator. |