Current Faculty

Scott Coleman

Faculty team 2006-08. B.S., Biology, State University of New York, College at Brockport, 1973; M.A., Education, San Diego State University, 1980; Ph.D., Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, 1989. "My interests include teacher assessment, teacher development and instructional design."

Jacque Ensign

Faculty team 2006-08. B.A., Psychology, Eckerd College, 1972; M.Ed., Elementary Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1973; Ph.D., Social Foundations of Education, University of Virginia, 1996. "My current areas of interest include culturally relevant teaching, environmental education, and preparing teachers for effectively teaching a diversity of students. When I'm not teaching, I love hiking and snowshoeing in these Northwest mountains."

George Freeman

Faculty team 2007-09. B.A., Liberal Arts, Secondary Education, Adams State College, 1977; M.A., Clinical Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 1984; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 1990. A clinical psychologist, his interests include multicultural counseling, social psychology, social justice, systems-level change, executive coaching and organizational systems development from a Gestalt framework. Taught previously in the 1997-1999 cycle.

Terry Ford

Faculty team 2007-09. B.A., English, Whitman College, 1983; Ed.M., Secondary Education, Washington State University, 1988; Ph.D., Literacy Education, Washington State University, 1993."My current areas of interest include literacy education, multicultural education, curriculum integration, technology, qualitative research methods and critical pedagogy."

Gery Gerst

Faculty team 2006-08. B.A., History, Saint Martin's College, 1971; M.Ed., Educational Technology Applications, Western Washington University, 1992. "My interests include learning new things, languages, history, music, travel, social justice and civil liberties, people."

Masao Sugiyama

Faculty team 2007-09. B.A., Eastern Washington University, 1963; M.S., Western Washington University, 1967; Ph.D., Washington State University, 1975. "I believe that our task as teachers is to find opportunities and settings that will present people with problems to solve and help them see what tools they can use to solve those problems."