Ruth
Cossey
Professor of Education
Education 216, 510.430.3159, rcossey@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Preservice and inservice mathematics and science
education, sociology of education in urban environments, mathematics reform in
elementary and secondary schools
David Donahue
Professor of Education
Associate Provost
Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching
Education 223, 510.430.3393, ddonahue@mills.edu
Professional Interests: English and social studies education, service
learning, literacy, human rights education
Tomás
Galguera
Professor of Education
Abbie Valley Professorship in Education
Education 217, 510.430.3252, tomasgs@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Teacher education for language-minority students,
bilingual education and English-language development programs, ethnolinguistic
diversity in education
Joseph E. Kahne
Professor of Education
Chair, MacArthur Research Network on Youth
and Participatory Politics
Education 220, 510.430.3275, jkahne@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Democracy and education, digital media and public participation, urban educational change and school policy, service learning, youth development
Diane Ketelle
Associate Professor of Education
Educational Leadership and Administrative Service Credential
Education 221, 510.430.2189, dketelle@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Administrator knowledge, administrator stories,
narrative inquiry, fictionalizing real experience
Linda
Kroll
Professor of Education
Faculty Executive Committee Division Representative
Education 214, 510.430.3161,
lindak@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Cognitive development, development of literacy,
application of developmental theory to educational issues, teacher education,
teacher development including development of teachers from their training
throughout their careers
Vicki
LaBoskey
Professor of Education
Education 219, 510.430.3110, vickikl@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Self-study of teacher education practices,
reflection in teaching, narrative in teaching and teacher education, teacher
research
Linda Perez
Professor of Education
Mary and Richard Holland Professorship in Early Childhood Education
Director of Child Life and Early Childhood Specialist Programs
Co-Director of Infant Mental Health Program
Education 213, 510.430.3238, lmperez@mills.edu
Professional Interests: At-risk children and families, the application of
developmental theory to special education issues, mental health and
developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood
Anna Ershler
Richert
Professor of Education
Faculty Director of Mills Teacher Scholars
Education 218, 510.430.3160, anna@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Teacher learning and school reform, teacher
knowledge, professional education/development, teacher research
Katherine Schultz
Professor of Education
Dean of School of Education
Education 206, 510.430.3384, kshcultz@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Urban teacher education, pedagogical practice and teacher learning,
international teacher professional development, adolescent literacy in and out of school
Priya
Shimpi
Assistant Professor of Education
Education 215, 510.430.2114, pshimpi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Communicative, social, and cognitive development in a
diversity of learning environments; translating early childhood research into practice;
the role of culture and experience in children’s attention and learning
Sabrina Zirkel
Professor of Educational Leadership
On sabbatical 2012-2013
Education 211, 510.430.3380,
szirkel@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Issues of race and ethnicity in education, creating more
effective multi-ethnic and urban schools, intergroup relations in schools, educational
leadership for social change
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Visiting
Scholars & Artists
Richard Ayers
Lecturer, Spring
Education 203, 510.430.3190, rayers@berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:30-1:00 in the Tea Shop
Professional Interests: Teacher education, equity and social justice, discourse and literacy
Elizabeth Baker
Visiting Assistant Professor
Education 223, 510.430.3154, ebaker@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00-5:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Teacher research, including Japanese lesson study; pre-service and in-service science and mathematics education; gender and equity education in the urban classroom; constructivist education
Merri Besden
Lecturer, Fall
mbesden@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Inclusive practices, Reggio Emilia inspired classrooms, sensory integration, facilitating social and pre-academic skills using photography and visual strategies
Frederica Breuer
Lecturer
Education 203, 510.430.3190, fbreuer@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 6:30-7:00, Wednesdays 3:30-4:00, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Teacher education, preschool through grade 6 reading and writing curriculum, literacy assessment and strategies for intervention, language and literacy development, children's literature
LaKimbre Brown
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
labrown@mills.edu
Professional Interests: School leadership and building teacher leadership,
being a principal and mentoring new principals
Nanu Clark
Lecturer, Spring
Education 210, 510.430.3191, nanunanu@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Early childhood curriculum, children’s literature and literacy development,
kindergarten readiness, teacher training
Kevin Collins
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Education 406, 925.944.6850 Ext. 2010, kcollins@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: School finance and equity, educational administration, utilization of student data, secondary education
Connie Davidson
Visiting Assistant Professor
Education 203, 510.430.3190, connie.davidson10@gmail.com
Office Hours: By appointment
Curriculum and instruction practices for urban educators; 21st-century skills and technology integration at all levels of instruction; cognitive coaching, mentoring, and recruiting educators; creating and developing professional development, i.e. Urban Boot Camp for Educators
Karl Debro
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
kdebro@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Race, culture, class and social reproduction in schooling, mentoring relationships within the school context, building collaborative structures across professional hierarchical boundaries such as departments and job classifications
Dora Dome
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
ddome@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Legal representation of public school districts in the areas of student
discipline and special education, and the provision of professional development on equity issues related to disproportionality and student achievement
Eliana Elias
Lecturer, Fall
elianaelias@comcast.net
Professional Interests: Dual language learners, education equity, immigrant families,
early childhood staff development, preschool curriculum
Victoria Forrester
Lecturer, Spring
Education 210, 510.430.3191, vforrest@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Kevin Harrigan
Lecturer, Spring
Education 203, 510.430.3191, kharrigan@nusd.k12.ca.us
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Building leadership capacity in all members of the professional
learning community; teacher leadership; instructional leadership coaching; creating
inclusive communities through a culture of collaboration that leads to change, builds trust
and ensures equity
Rebecca Hawley
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Education 203, 510.332.4750, rhawley@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Early intervention; Head Start and early Head Start; early childhood education advocacy and education; race and ethnicity and issues of early education and access
Brandon Krueger
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
bkrueger@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Organizational leadership theories, family and community engagement in
schools, human resources leadership, shared leadership, program improvement strategies, state and federal programs, multilingual/multicultural education
Josephine Lee
Lecturer
Education 212, 510.430.3149, jlee@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Infant care and development; supporting children's oral language development; the importance of symbolic play, television and media culture in the lives of young children
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Betty Lin
Lecturer
Education 212, 510.430-3149, blin@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-3:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Early intervention and early childhood special education, infant mental health, early intervention advocacy and public policy cultural understanding when working with Asian families
Susan Marchant
Lecturer
Education 212, 510.430-3149, smarchan@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Genetic disorders, organizational psychology, pediatric chronic illness,
pediatric palliative care, cultural implications in pediatrics, autism and related disorders
Melinda Martin
Lecturer, Spring
Education 210, 510.430.3191, mmartin@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Ellen Middaugh
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Kimball House #10, 510.430.3357, emiddaug@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:00-5:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Civic education, youth civic engagement, adolescent development, new media, research methods
Julie Nicholson
Visiting Assistant Professor
Director, Leadership Program in Early Childhood
Education 210, 510.430.2116, jnichols@mills.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30-4:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Leadership in early childhood, policy and advocacy in early childhood, post-modern and critical perspectives in early childhood, play memories, play across the lifespan, children's beliefs about play, inquiry-based practice, use of social media in teacher education
Patricia Nunley
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Education 210, 510.430.3191, pnunley@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: The student-teacher relationship between urban black males and their teachers, consultant and educational Coach for 100 Black Men of the Bay Area Community School, professional development diversity workshops, Head Start, chronic exposure to community violence as a trauma source, global ECE and western theories, African American mental wellness
Terry Pollack
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
Education 203, 510.430.3190, tpollack@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Racialized school narratives and teacher discourse, socialization of beginning teachers, teacher induction mentoring, culturally responsive teaching practices, multicultural education, educational leadership for social change
Nikole Richardson
Lecturer, Fall
nrichardson@mills.edu
Zachery Roberts
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Education 210, 510.430.3191, zroberts@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Instructional supervision and cognitive coaching, reflective practice, early induction administration, assessment and evaluation, interdisciplinary education
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi
Visiting Associate Professor
Director, Center for Urban Schools and Partnerships (CUSP)
Kimball House 2, 510.384.2345, iseyerochi@mills.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 9:00-10:00 or by appointment
Professional Interests: Educational inequality, educational anthropology, urban education and urban studies, ethnography, public scholarship, social geography, social-cultural constructions of learning, school-community relationships, university-school partnerships, youth cultures, the history of educational and social service institutions, violence and urban social suffering
Regina Stroud
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Education 203, 510.430.3190, reginastroud@sbcglobal.net
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: African American Women Leaders; racial identity and
representation; community college administration; narrative inquiry integrated with videography, community college administration and advanced educational leadership
Greg Tanaka
Visiting Professor
Education 203, 510.430.3190, gtanaka@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays 4:00-6:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Capital markets, systemic collapse/social change, qualitative research,
participatory democracy, action research, subject formation and individual agency
Lucinda Taylor
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Education 203, 510.430.3190, ltaylor@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Tracy Trujillo
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
t3trujillo@hotmail.com
Professional Interests: Advocation of the health of infants, children, adolescents and young adults
Ron Ulrich
Lecturer, Fall
rulrich@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Math and science education, teacher development, application of
hands on learning, development of critical thinking skills, and classroom norms
Vicki Van Steenberg
Lecturer
Education 212, 510.430.3149, vvan@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Early childhood special education, inclusion and diversity, school-community partnerships, family systems and teacher-parent teams, teacher education involving personal transformation, multicultural consciousness, sustainability for systems change, dual language learners in special education
Vicky Webber
Lecturer
Education 216, 510.430.3190, vwebber@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: History and philosophy of education, ethnomathematics, teaching for equity and social justice
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Staff
Melissa Benham
Program Coordinator, Educational Leadership, Early Childhood Education, and Infant Mental Health
School of Education
Kimball 3, 510.430.3293, mbenham@mills.edu
Susan Christopher
Director of Enrollment & Strategic Research
School of Education
Education 210, 510.430.3170, education@mills.edu
Colleen Keirn
Coordinator of Teacher Education, Credentialing
School of Education
Education 202, 510.430.3255, ckeirn@mills.edu
Office hours: By appointment
Annie Neves
Academic Coordinator and Executive Assistant to Dean
School of Education
Education 203, 510.430.3192, aneves@mills.edu
Rachel Lefkowitz
Administrative Assistant
School of Education
Kimball 3, 510.430.3146,
rlefkowitz@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays 8:30-4:30
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