Education Program

2021 Teacher Research Presentations and Graduation Celebration

graduates posing for a group picture

Presentations of Original Research by the Master of Arts in Teaching Candidates 

Presentations at Sherman Hall

Lindsey Whidden Duff
A Culturally Responsive Lens on Math Engagement Strategies.

Bridget Lucy Cifuni
The Fight of Inner Power

Elyse Hahn
Putting Tools in the Toolbox: Developing Self-Sufficiency Techniques

Elana Rebitzer
“What if I’m a bad writer?”: Student Meta-Cognitive Goal Setting in Writing

Ianne Leah Sherry
Differentiating Product: Choice in the 5th Grade Classroom

Presentations at Levine Ross Conference Room

Rachel Lucy Ordan
I Don’t Know What To Do: Teaching Students Task Initiation

Maria Guadalupe Mendiola Tovar
Researching Breaks in an 8th Grade Classroom

Enríque María López
CommunicA+tion: Student Initiated Input

Racheli Mandelker
Close Connections from Six Feet Apart: Building Rapport with Students in a Global Pandemic

Lauren Alicia Bernstein
"What Do You Think?": Goal Setting in Peer Conversations

Presentations at Lurias Conference Room

Elmer Alexander Torres Ortiz
Researching Emergent Multilingual Students Strategies in an Elementary Classroom

Annie Jean-Baptiste
The MisEducation of Motivational Practices

Catherine Cooper
“Explain your Reasoning”: Activities to Support Justification in Math

Lindsey Kate Wall
“When will we ever use this?”: Addressing the Applications of Secondary Math

Eliana Sylvia Padwa
Yours, Mine and Ours: Strategy & Motivation in the Concurrent Classroom

Presentations at Geller Conference Room

Lily Elaine Horowitch
"Ms. Horowitch put this on the board, I did so good!": Student Confidence and Differentiated Instruction

Liam David Gladding
Ambitious Science Teaching and Self-Regulation

Sophie Gene Rathmann
Analyzing Trends to Support Student Writing

Mira Justine Israel
Encouraging Participation of All Kinds

2021 Graduates

Master of Arts in Teaching
Elementary Education

Lauren Alicia Bernstein
Bridget Lucy Cifuni
Lindsey Whidden Duff
Lily Elaine Horowitch
Elmer Alexander Torres Ortiz

Master of Arts in Teaching
in Jewish Day Schools

Rachel Lucy Ordan
Elana Rebitzer
Ianne Leah Sherry

Master of Arts in Teaching
Secondary Education

Catherine Cooper
Liam David Gladding
Elyse Hahn
Mira Justine Israel
Annie Jean-Baptiste
Enríque María López
Maria Guadalupe Mendiola Tovar
Eliana Sylvia Padwa
Sophie Gene Rathmann
Lindsey Kate Wall