MIT 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."

Anita Lenges Faculty Team 2005-07. B.A., Mathematics and Anthropology; M.A., Mathematics Education and Teacher Leadership, 1994; Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in Mathematics Education, University of Washington, 2004. "My current interests include equitable and inclusive teaching practices, ethnomathematics, and teacher preparation for racially, socioeconomically, and linguistically diverse students."

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."

Michael Vavrus Faculty team 2004-06. B.A., Political Science, Drake University, 1970; M.A., Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education, Michigan State University, 1975; Ph.D., Education: Instructional Development and Technology, Michigan State University, 1978. "My areas of interest include educational policy, the social context of teaching and multicultural education."

Sherry Walton, MIT Director. B.A., Education, Auburn University, 1970; M.Ed., Developmental Reading, Auburn University, 1977; Ph.D., Theories in Reading, Research and Evaluation Methodology, University of Colorado, 1980. "My current areas of interest include literacy education, assessment, research methodology and design, and theories of learning."

Sonja Wiedenhaupt Faculty team 2005-07. B.A., Psychology, Wheaton College, 1988; M.A., Developmental Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991; Ph.D., Social/Personality Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, 2001. "My current focus revolves around the roles that motivational factors such as self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation and interest play in learning."