Meet Our Center Members
Faculty
Center Staff
UCI Collaborators
Nicole Gilberston
Director, UCI Teacher Academy
Postdoctoral Scholars
Graduate Students
External Collaborators
Cathy Ringstaff
Senior Research Associate, West Ed
Tara Barnhart
Assistant Professor, Chapman University
Victoria Hand
Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Doron Zinger
Assistant Professor, CSUDH
Miriam Gamoran Sherin
Professor, Northwestern University
Myuriel von Aspen
Math Coordinator, OCDE
Visiting Scholars
Rae Young Kim
2017 Visiting Scholar Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Kathrin Krammer
2015 Visiting Scholar University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland
Adriana Zaragoza
2020 Visiting Scholar Technical University of Munich, Germany
Sigal Rotem
2021 Visiting Scholar, Utrecht University Freudenthal Institute
Silvia Micheletta
2014 Visiting ScholarUniversity of Florence, Italy
Decheng Zhao
2019 Visiting ScholarBeijing Normal University, China
Felicitas Thiel
2020 Visiting Scholar Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr. Eun Hye Ham
2023 Visiting Scholar Kongju National University, South Korea
Frédéric Saussez
2014 Visiting Associate ResearcherAssociate Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada
Andrea Ciani
2019-20 Visiting Scholar University of Bologna, Italy
Chiara Varlaro
2022 Visiting Scholar, University of Bologna, Italy
Franziska Tschönhens
2024 Visiting Scholar, University of Tübingen, Germany
Alumni
Isabelle Acosta, Research Associate, Digital Promise
Priyanka Agarwal, Assistant Professor of Math Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tara Barnhart, Assistant Professor, Chapman UniversityÂ
Leiny Garcia, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke UniversityÂ
Lora Cawelti, PhD completed 2024
Dana Marie Conlin, PhD completed 2024
Heather Clark, Assistant Professor, CSUDH
Huy Chung, Director of Research, Writing Project, UCI
Juan Gaytan, English Teacher, Hemet Unified School District
Sarah Gilliand, Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, West Coast University
Benjamin James, Assistant Professor, University of DelawareÂ
Jenell Krishnan, Senior Program Associate, WestEd
Jiwon Lee, Senior UX Researcher, Boomi
David Liu, Researcher, AT&T
Jinqing Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton
Jennifer Long, Program Director, Masters in Conservation and Restoration Science and Education Director, The Environmental Collaboratory, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI
Janet Mercado, Project Manager, USC
Elizabeth Mendoza, Postdoctoral ScholarÂ
Jonathan Montoya, Teacher Education Professor, Saint Mary’s College
Alison Munzer, Associate Director, 21CSLA
Ha Nguyen, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virginia Panish, former Director of Teacher Education (retired), UCI
Raul Orduna Picon, Teaching Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Khamia Powell, Research Associate, WestEd
Ethan Rubin, PhD completed 2024
Mishael Sedas, PhD, Educator and Evaluator, CaltechÂ
Allison Starks, Research and Improvement Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools
Jacob Steiss, Research Scientist, UC Irvine
Christopher Stillwell, Professor, English for Speakers of Other Languages, College of the Sequoias
Rachel Stumpf, Academic Coach, Stanford
Jennifer Sun, Program Manager, Faculty Development, SCU
Hamideh Talafian, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Karen Taylor, Researcher, American Institutes for Research
Jessica Tunney, Principal and Executive Director, TLC Public Charter SchoolÂ
Erica Van Steenis, Improvement Scientist, Search Institute
Christopher Wegemer, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA
Joseph Wong, PhD completed 2024
Cathery Yeh, Assistant Professor, UT Austin