Johnna Bolyard
Associate Director, School of Education; Program Coordinator, Elementary Education B.A.
Associate Professor
ALH 602D
Professional Highlights
- Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Human Resources and Education, WVU, 2021
- Mathematics Teacher of the Year - College Level, West Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2015
- Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Human Resources and Education, WVU, 2010
Carla Brigandi
Associate Professor
ALH 604M
Professional Highlights
- Early Scholar Award, National Association for Gifted Children, 2021
- Principal Investigator, Project Appalachian Coders, US Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Gifted Education Award, 2019-2024
- Chair, National Association for Gifted Children Research & Evaluation Network, 2024
Matthew Campbell
Interim Director - School of Education and School of Counseling and Well-being; Coordinator of Teacher Education
Associate Professor
ALH 600-A
Professional Highlights
- Research emphasis on teacher education, teacher recruitment and retention, and teacher leadership
- Principal Investigator, Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers (M3T)
- Past-President, West Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics (WVCTM)
- Associate Vice President, AMTE STaR Fundraising Committee, 2023-2026
Jeffrey Carver
Director of STEM Education K-12 Initiatives
Associate Professor
ALH 607D
Professional Highlights
- 20 years' experience in the educational field
- Directs STEM Education Initiatives at the College of Applied Human Services
- Research interests focus on the improvement of teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines at all levels (p-20)
D. Jake Follmer
Assistant Professor
ALH 609G
Professional Highlights
- Research interests include self- and socially-regulated learning, statistics education, first-generation student success, reading comprehension, and instructional inquiry and revision in STEM
- CEHS Outstanding Teaching Award, 2022
- Teaching MVP Award, 2020, WVU, Office of the Provost
- AERA Deeper Learning Research Fellow, 2022
Sharon Hayes
Associate Professor
ALH 604-I
Professional Highlights
- Coordinator of Action Research Faculty 2008-2020
- WVU National Writing Project, 2008-2011
- Program Coordinator 5 Year Teacher Education Program (2020-2021)
- Program Coordinator Elementary Math Specialist Master’s (2021-2023)
- Licensed teacher in New Jersey: Elementary Education, Middle School
- Ten years public school experience (K-8)
- Former preschool teacher and childcare provider
Melissa Luna
Associate Professor
WVU Research Office 408D
Professional Highlights
- Journal of the Learning Sciences Reviewer of the Year, 2022-2023
- CAHS Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, 2022-2023
- CEHS Associate Dean for Research, 2019-2022
- WVU CEHS Outstanding Researcher Award, 2018
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2016
Betsy DiSalvo Osborne
Program Coordinator: Secondary Social Studies
Service Assistant Professor
elizabeth.osborne@mail.wvu.edu
ALH 604-L
Erin McHenry-Sorber
Associate Professor
Professional Highlights
- 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Applied Human Sciences, West Virginia University
- 2022 National Rural Education Achievement Award. Award presented for meritorious service to the National Rural Education Association.
- 2022 National Rural Education Association Best Research Paper Award. Best research paper submission to the annual National Rural Education Association research symposium. “National Rural Education Association Research Agenda – 2022-2027: A Closer Look at the Research Priorities.”
- 2019 Howard A. Dawson Best Research Paper Award, National Rural Education Association Best research paper submission to the annual National Rural Education Association research symposium. “Protecting ourselves from ‘people from away?’ Taking stock of a decade of rural education research since Coladarci’s Swan Song
- 2019 Mary Catharine Buswell Award, Council for Women’s Concerns, West Virginia University
- 2019 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Education and Human Services, West Virginia University
- Editor, The Rural Educator
Aimee Morewood
Program Coordinator: Literacy Education
Professor
ALH 607E
Professional Highlights
- Research interests include effective professional development for literacy educators, word study instruction for elementary students, systemic change through teacher leadership and emergent literacy practices
- Certified in Elementary Education (K-12) and as a Reading Specialist (K-12)
- Former learning support teacher
Sarah Selmer
Associate Professor
ALH 606E
Professional Highlights
- Research emphasis on teacher's responsive noticing of student mathematical thinking
- Completed a Fulbright specialist program in Lesotho, Africa (Summer 2023)
- Department Editor for Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12
Professional Highlights
- Past Chair, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group
- Board Member, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, International Journal of Early Childhood Education
- Licensed teacher in West Virginia, areas: Elementary Education, Early Childhood-PK-K Special Needs, Intellectual Disabilities, Autism
- Six years public school experience (K-5) and four years in private preschool or childcare
Courtney Shimek
Assistant Professor
Sam F. Stack Jr.
Chester E. and Helen B. Derrick Endowed Teacher Education Professor
Professor
ALH 604F
Allison Swan Dagen
Professor
ALH 600
Professional Highlights
- Co-Editor, Best Practices of Literacy Leaders: Keys to School Improvement, 2020
- Lead Writer, International Literacy Association Standards 2017
- WVU Provost's Academic Fellow, 2018-2021
- WVU Assistant Provost for Graduate Academic Affairs 2021-2023
Nathan Sorber
Interim Dean
Professor
AHB 275
Professional Highlights
- Interim Dean, College of Applied Human Sciences West Virginia University
- Author of multiple books on Higher Education in the United States
- Editor, Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Yuanhua Wang
Assistant Professor
ALH 606F
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