E-Mail: jslayton@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3259
Office: WPH 401

Dr. Julie Slayton is Associate Professor of Clinical Education at USC Rossier, where she has taught in the Ph.D. program and currently teaches The Application of Theories of Learning in Classroom Practice and Human Differences in the MAT program. She has also taught the Understanding the Social Context of Schools in this same program.

Dr. Slayton worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District for almost t10 years. During that time, she served in a variety of research and leadership roles. As the Director for Research and Planning, she directed research and policy analysis related to the implementation of instructional policies and programs and worked directly with principals and coaches to improve their approach to professional development and improving teacher practice. Prior to this position, she served as the Assistant Chief of Staff to the Superintendent, the Chief Accountability Officer for the District and as a Chief Research Scientist for the District's Program Evaluation and Research Branch.

Prior to her work with the District, Dr. Slayton studied charter schools and school finance at UCLA and her dissertation focused on the relationship between state charter laws and district charter school funding practices. In addition, Dr. Slayton practiced law and was a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on Federal and State laws pertaining to students' constitutional rights on campus and inter-agency information sharing regarding juveniles who are at risk of or already engaged in delinquent behavior. She holds a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Dr. Slayton's research has most recently focused on the examining the quality of instruction provided to children in elementary school classrooms and adults in professional development settings. She continues to been most interested in understanding and creating the learning conditions and the pedagogy/andragogy necessary to improve child and adult learning opportunities in urban schools and school districts.

E-Mail: chyde@usc.edu

Dr. Hyde has a wide variety of experience in the field of education, including classroom teaching, special education, community education, and educational administration.

She received both her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Psychology and her Master of Science in Education in Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology from the USC Rossier School of Education. She also received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Central Florida. She currently resides in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge, and is the first full-time faculty member in the online Master of Arts in Teaching program to be fully off-site, teaching through the MAT@USC program's virtual campus.

She received both her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Psychology and her Master of Science in Education in Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology from the USC Rossier School of Education. She also received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Central Florida. She currently resides in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, near Baton Rouge, and is the first full-time faculty member in the online Master of Arts in Teaching program to be fully off-site, teaching through the MAT@USC program's virtual campus.

E-Mail: amaddox@usc.edu
Phone: 213 740 3471
Office: WPH 401

Prior to his appointment at USC, Dr. Anthony Maddox was Chief of Staff and Interim Chief Neighborhood Officer with the Los Angeles Urban League. His responsibilities at the League included the administration and joint teaching of Leadership Institutes for adolescent males, coordination of the development of the Greater Crenshaw Educational Partnership, and the early implementation of a neighborhood revitalization initiative centered at Crenshaw High School in South Los Angeles.

Dr. Maddox has held faculty or instructor positions at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Northeastern University, Brandeis University, and Carnegie Mellon University. While at UCLA he served as Co-Director of Algebra Unlimited, a Los Angeles-based laboratory, incubator, and studio for the study of culturally responsive algebra learning and teaching and Program Manager with the College Access Project for African Americans at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. As a Program Director with the National Science Foundation he managed research grant awards for information technology, postdoctoral studies, learning technologies, and experimental partnerships in computer science.

As Professor of Clinical Education at USC Rossier School of Education, Dr. Maddox teaches in the online Master of Arts in Teaching program, MAT@USC. His research and professional interests include STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) teaching and learning, educational and community informatics, and social cognition informed by network science and game theory. Of particular interest to Dr. Maddox are qualitative, quantitative, and computational descriptions of the dynamic relationships between learners and their agents in social and formal learning environments.

Dr. Gokce Gokalp has completed her Ph.D. with an emphasis in Educational Psychology here at the Rossier School of Education. She has been a part of the DSC family as a graduate assistant since it first opened its doors to doctoral students in 2005. She was also involved in the restructuring of the Ed.D. program as a teaching assistant to several core courses. She has an article published on the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations journal, and is currently working on an article with her colleagues at the DSC on the effective support practices for doctoral degree completion which will be submitted to the College Student Journal early September. Her research interests include effects of stress on cognitive processes and academic decision-making as well as help seeking behavior of graduate students. Dr. Gokalp also holds a masters degree in Experimental Psychology.

Annemarie Perez is a doctoral candidate in the department of English. Her area of research is Chicano/a resistance literature, with an emphasis on California writers. Prior to joining the DSC, Annemarie worked as an assistant thesis editor at USC's Graduate School. Annemarie will be assisting students with ensuring their dissertations meet USC Graduate School guidelines and helping to conduct research on the efficacy of the DSC and programs that support doctoral student persistence and completion.

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E-mail: mcarson@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 821-4231

Melisa Carson serves as student services coordinator in the Doctoral Support. She coordinates the development and implementation of DSC student support service and oversees budget administration and office management activities. Her background is extensive as her prior employment includes Commercial Real Estate Asset Manager and Secondary Math Teacher.

Melisa has a bachelor's degree in Business Management and Human Resources from California State University Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the Rossier School of Education. Her educational and career goals are focused on adult learning and organizational professional development programs.

E-Mail: joannasm@usc.edu
Phone: (303)443-2705
Office: WPH 901

Dr. Joanna Smith is a Assistant Research Professor at USC Rossier School of Education and Assistant Director of the Center on Educational Governance (CEG). From January 2007 to June 2009, she was the William E. B. Siart Research Fellow with CEG. Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from Rossier in 2004, and the title of her dissertation was "Working Together to Improve Education: Alliances between Charter Schools and Community-Based Organizations."

Dr. Smith has worked on numerous charter school studies. She is currently the research team lead for the National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance, a three-year initiative funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education for which she supervises graduate student research assistants during all study activities including research design, data collection instrument creation, team trainings, data collection and data analysis, as well as the writing and dissemination of results to state policymakers, charter school authorizers and charter school operators.

E-Mail: brandodm@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3827
Office: WPH 1003E

Dr. Brandon Martinez has worked at the high school level as both a teacher and administrator over the past 11 years. His research interests include the use of educational technology in curriculum design, instruction, teacher preparation, and student learning, and teacher training in educational technology, with a focus on classroom learning, motivation, and self-efficacy for technology. He also studies distance learning education at the K-12 and higher education levels with a focus on student engagement, motivation, and learning, and he is interested in the role of motivations and learning in best practices for professional development.

His dissertation research focused on the influence of computer self-efficacy and self-regulation on students' engagement in distance learning. Dr. Martinez recently completed a research project with Dr. Helena Seli that examined the relationship between the use of classroom clickers and student engagement at an urban high school. He currently teaches Learning Theories, Framing, and Human Development courses for the MAT program both online and on campus, the Human Motivation 511 course for the Master of Educational Psychology and Technology program, and the 525 Learning course for the Ed.D. program.

Dr. Patricia Burch joined the Rossier School of Education as a Visiting Assistant Professor in September 2009. She was appointed to Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison in the fall of 2003. Dr. Burch received her BA in English from Oberlin College in 1985, her MA in Education from Harvard University in 1991, her MA in Sociology from Stanford University in 1998, and her PhD in Education from Stanford University in 2000.

Over the past decade, Dr. Burch has conducted major studies and evaluations of K-12 education reform such as SAGE (the Wisconsin class-size initiative), systemic instructional reform in large urban school districts (Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia), professional development reforms (Chicago Philadelphia, New York City), and school-linked services (West Virginia, New Mexico, Boston, and San Diego).

Her newest work examines the role of private firms as influences in the design and implementation of K-12 education policy and how public education is being transformed "below the radar" by new forms of privatization. Her book Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization was published by Routledge in 2009. She currently serves as a co-principal Investigator on a four year $3,000,000 study titled, "A Multi-Site Evaluation of the Implementation and Impact of Supplemental Educational Services" funded by the Institute of Education Sciences Education Research Grant Program: Education Policy, Finance and Systems.

E-Mail: alangree@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 821-4216
Office: WPH 1103A
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Dr. Alan Green joined Rossier in July 2009 as Associate Professor of Clinical Education and School Counseling Program Lead. He came from Johns Hopkins University School of Education, where he served most recently as chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services. He earned a doctorate in counseling psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC and a master's degree in school and community counseling from California State University in Sacramento. Dr. Green was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for his doctoral work in Guyana on adolescent stressors, coping responses and psychological adjustment. Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins, he was an adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University and a clinical psychology intern at the Maryland Department of Safety and Corrections. In addition to his academic duties, Dr. Green served as Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, member of the Hopkins Provost Advisory Committee, board member of Advocates for Children and Youth, and previously executive board liaison for the Empowerment Academy Charter School.

Dr. Green's current research interests include: urban school counseling; urban education; African American adolescent achievement, mental health and wellbeing; and interdisciplinary approaches to urban development and community empowerment. His most recent research projects were funded by the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Green was the principal investigator for "Project Inspiration", a federally funded Urban School Counseling demonstration program for the Baltimore City Public School System.

Dr. Green is a widely sought-after project evaluator and consultant to educational institutes and projects in the Greater Baltimore area. A sample of his past and current community projects include the Community Social Mapping Project, East Baltimore Education Initiative, the Maryland State Department of Education IDEA Partnership, the West Baltimore Middle School Targeted Student Support Services Project, the Malcolm X Middle School Mental Health Behavioral Support Program, the Merritt Education Center School-Based Mental Health Behavioral Support Program, and the Meade Middle School Community Partnership Initiative. In addition, Dr. Green has served as a consultant to the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, the Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School, and the Connexions Academy in Baltimore. Dr. Green was a recipient of the 2006 Counselors for Social Justice 'Ohana Honors Award for his efforts to affirm diversity and advocate for social justice.

E-Mail: kstrunk@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 821-4216
Office: WPH 1103A
Expert Directory: http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/experts/1569.html

Dr. Katharine Strunk started as Assistant Professor of Education and Policy in USC Rossier in July 2009, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Policy, Planning and Development. She comes from the University of California, Davis, where she served as Assistant Professor of Education Policy in its School of Education.

Dr. Strunk's work is grounded in the theories of public and labor economics and policy analysis and utilizes quantitative methodologies taken from the fields of economics and sociology. Her research falls into three overarching categories related to K-12 education policy and reform: teacher labor markets, education governance and education finance. Specifically, her work on teacher labor markets focuses on questions concerning the determinants of teacher attrition, the retention and recruitment of high quality teachers, and the impact of teachers' unions on district- and school-level processes. Dr. Strunk's research on education governance explores the relationship between teachers' unions and school boards, and the varied impacts of accountability policies and their associated interventions. Dr. Strunk's work on education finance has generally examined the relationships between spending and student achievement.

Dr. Strunk received her doctorate from Stanford University in 2007 with a focus on Administration and Policy Analysis, and her Masters in Economics from Stanford University in 2005. She is a faculty affiliate of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). Her work has been published in Education Finance and Policy, the National Tax Journal and the Peabody Journal of Education. She is a recipient of the American Education Research Association Dissertation Grant and the American Education Finance Association New Scholar Award. Most recently, Dr. Strunk has been funded by the California Department of Education to examine the success of California's accountability interventions targeted at districts that have reached No Child Left Behind Program Improvement Year 3 status.

E-Mail: kennetay@usc.edu
Phone: (310) 379-0844
Office: WPH 1103A

Dr. Kenneth Yates is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Southern California, Center for Cognitive Technology at the Rossier School of Education and a Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. At the Center, Dr. Yates develops training and evaluation programs and conducts research in, and applications of, cognitive task analysis methods to improve human performance, instructional design, and educational technology. At the Keck School of Medicine, he conducts research in applying cognitive task analysis methods to capture and document the expertise of the surgical faculty toward developing the teaching methods, materials, and assessments that represent both the technical skills and cognitive processes required for complex surgical procedures.

Dr. Yates has over 30 years of national and international experience in media and technology and has held executive positions at various electronic media companies. He has been a media and technology consultant on a number of USAID-sponsored international training and development projects. Recently, he developed training and evaluation programs for the US Army, conducted cognitive task analysis and designed training for counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and designed training for a US Army course in bilateral negotiations for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

His research focuses on the use of cognitive task analysis methods to capture and document the underlying knowledge and skills experts use to solve complex problems and the design of instruction to effectively teach this expertise to others. He is also interested in how information communication technologies can be used to deliver instruction more efficiently and to a wider audience. Dr. Yates also teaches graduate level courses in learning, motivation, and instructional design.

E-Mail: ddwyer@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-4398
Office: WPH 901D

Dr. David C. Dwyer is the first holder of the newly endowed Katzman-Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation. He comes to the USC Rossier School of Education with more than 30 years experience as an industry leader, researcher, and educator, and as an acclaimed expert in the application of technologies for learning.

Dr. Dwyer was most recently Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at KD Learning, where he developed an imaginative virtual world for children 6-12 years of age, providing them an opportunity to interact, master numerous games, proliferate and personalize virtual home environments and avatars, and engage in creative and altruistic activities.

As Chief Academic Officer at Apex Learning from 2002 to 2007, Dr. Dwyer led the development of an award winning, four-year high school core curriculum in math, science, language arts, social studies, and world languages, as well as several elective courses.

In his role as Director of Education Technologies at Apple Computer from 2000 to 2002, Dr. Dwyer led the development and implementation of the Apple Learning Interchange, a media-rich repository for examples of outstanding teaching practice. From 1986 to 1996, Dr. Dwyer was the director of the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) project. During that same period as an Apple Distinguished Scientist, he collaborated with leading research institutions to document changes in instruction and learning in technology-intensive classrooms, demonstrated technical innovations in education settings, and advised education policy leaders and educators internationally.

Dr. Dwyer was also President and Chief Executive Officer at Edpoint, Inc. from 1999 to 2000 and served as Vice President of Advanced Learning Technologies at Computer Curriculum Corporation from 1996 to 1999, where he led the Education Enterprise Group.

From his varied experience, Dr. Dwyer has written and spoken widely about innovation in education, educational leadership, and technology. Dr. Dwyer received his Ph.D. specializing in innovation and change in schools, school organizations, and program development from Washington University in St. Louis in 1981.

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