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Jen Gilbert

Rob Simon

Leslie Stewart Rose

Bessie Giannikos

Responsible for the administrative, financial, human resources, research & operational management of CTL.

Michelle Pon

Responsible for providing operational guidance and managerial oversight of CTL's graduate administrative team.

Hemant Mittal

• Hiring of sessional lecturers and searches for faculty
• Promotion of sessional lecturers and faculty
• Coordinating/organizing departmental meetings

Candice Corda

• Human Resources (payroll, contracts, and onboarding of new faculty)​
• Finance (expense claims, invoice processing, and budget)​

Louise Schuch

• Human Resources (payroll, contracts, and onboarding of new faculty)​
• Finance (expense claims, invoice processing, and budget)​
• Operations (shared spaces, keys, printer codes, etc.) ​

Leila Farrow

• Provide administrative support to the MT Faculty and students 
• MT Practicum support for students
• Provide operational support to the department (e.g. office keys, room bookings) 

Eliza Ren

• Provide administrative support to the C&P and LLE Program Coordinators and Faculty 
• Course scheduling support for the C&P and LLE Programs
• Responds to student and applicant inquiries

Shuyi Chen

• Course scheduling for the MT Program
• Provide administrative support to the MT Leadership
• Responds to student and applicant inquiries

Lynette Lobo

• Liaise with partner school boards for MT Practicum placements
• MT Practicum inquiries (email: mtpracticum@utoronto.ca)
• Coordinate Practicum Partnership events and Faculty Advisor assignments

Mary Lovatsis

• Admission to the MT Program (email: ctladmissions.oise@utoronto.ca)
• MT-Specific Awards for new and continuing MT students (email: oise.ctlawards@utoronto.ca)

Andrea Cuellar

• Admission to C&P and LLE Programs (email: ctladmissions.oise@utoronto.ca)
• CTL awards administration (email: oise.ctlawards@utoronto.ca)
• CTL GA and funding support

Alanna McKnight

• Registered student inquiries
• Course scheduling
• Governance

Alex Merrick

• Co-developing, coordinating, leading, and supporting partnerships with schools and community-partners
• Supporting practicum and experiential learning opportunities for CTL students

Email: alexandra.merrick@utoronto.ca

Máiri McKenna Edwards

• Support navigating & connecting with resources & supports
• Communications & programming
• Conversations (about the good, the bad and the stuff in between)
• Special projects
• Supporting student leaders

Alex Andrei

• Providing support for Pepper, SharePoint, and other systems
• Enhancing workflows and processes
• Supporting online communications (website, newsletters, etc.)

Lisa Juan

• Provides communication strategies for the department
• Coordinates departmental events
• Generates promotional material related to events and programs
• Manages social media platforms

Amelia Ainsworth

• Point of contact for CTL research inquires
• Faculty grant support
• Student award administration
• Updating/creating CTL faculty research profiles

AV Verhaeghe

• Address inquiries from authors
• Support student and faculty editors
• Support Curriculum Inquiry peer reviewers​

Kathleen Gallagher

Research Areas: Youth and social inequality, lived experiences of global youth, educational policy, community-engaged research, theatre.
Open to Supervision: TBA

David Levine

Research Areas: Shakespeare, cultural/historical literacy, film, schooling, modernization, demographics, family, popular culture, and historiography in the social and educational history of England.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jim Slotta

Research Areas: Collaborative and collective inquiry models in K–12 science; exploring technology-enhanced learning and Knowledge Community and Inquiry approaches.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Kim MacKinnon

Research Areas: Education technology, collaborative learning, online learning. 
Open to Supervision: TBA

Anne Marie Chudleigh

Research Areas: Teacher education and teacher preparation. Teaching in urban schools, self-reflective practice.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Wanja Gitari

Research Areas: Cognitive continuity in science learning, access and equity in science education, socio-cultural context of science education, Indigenous knowledges.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Vijay Ramjattan

Research Areas: Relationships between language, race, and work in education, focusing on accent as a site of racialization, labor, and resistance to oppressive language norms.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Lydia Cao

Research Areas: AI in Education, Immersive technologies, Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, Education for Sustainable Development, Knowledge Building, Cross-cultural Collaboration, Learning Analytics. 
Open to Supervision: TBA

Guy Allen

Research Areas: Expressive writing; publishing, writing teaching, learning and curriculum development; health and science writing
Open to Supervision: TBA

Fikile Nxumalo

Research Areas: Curricular and pedagogical approaches to disrupt anti-Black and settler colonial frames; rethinking place-based, climate, and environmental education with young children.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Tony Lam

Research Areas: Self-reporting, scale design, treatment evaluation, alternative assessments, and measurement-driven education reform.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Shawna-Kaye Tucker

Research Areas: Language and literacy development, English as an additional language, English writing development, Educational provisions in the Caribbean, Home language and literacy environments.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Julie C. Garlen

Research Areas: Childhood, early childhood education, popular culture, cultural curriculum studies, critical media literacy.  
Open to Supervision: TBA

Ashley Moore

Research Areas: queer-inclusive and -affirming language education, linguistic dissociation
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jennifer Brant

Research Areas: Indigenous feminisms, maternal praxis, anti-colonial literacies, resurgent Indigenous literary frameworks, and dismantling racialized, sexualized, and gender-based violence.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Leslie Stewart Rose

Research Areas: Teacher professional learning, curriculum and program development, assessment, arts and equity education; exploring pedagogies of being, becoming, and belonging.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jack Miller

Research Areas: Whole Child Education, The Holistic Curriculum, The Contemplative Practitioner, Education and the Soul, and Love and Compassion: Exploring their Role in Education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Michelle Dubek

Research Areas: Progressive science education pedagogies and the integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) across the curriculum.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Tara Goldstein

Research Areas: Verbatim theatre and performed ethnography. Experiences of LGBTQ families.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Shelley Stagg Peterson

Research Areas: Focus on elementary and adolescent literacy, socio-cultural issues in writing, multiliteracies, rural literacies, and northern Indigenous education through the NOW Play project.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Alex Cavalcante

Research Areas: Financial education, numeracy, citizenship, STEM, entrepreneurship.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Angela Easby

Research Areas: Urban Indigenous communities, Indigenous education, Anishinaabemowin revitalization, community-based research design.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Neil Ramjewan

Research Areas: Decolonization in education; critical study of political and colonial constructions of childhood; teaching in child and youth studies, anti-discriminatory and teacher education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Michelle Lui

Research Areas: Designs immersive tech to support complex learning, using mixed-methods to link user experience—physiological and behavioral—to learning outcomes.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Zhaozhe Wang

Research Areas: Multilingual and second language writing, transnational rhetorics, digital/AI literacy, and international students’ literacy practices in higher education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez

Research Areas: Symbolic boundaries, cultural production, identity in education, urban schooling, inequality, sociology of education, curriculum, and pedagogy.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Enrica Piccardo

Research Areas: Linguistic/cultural diversity in language education; cognitive, emotional, social factors; L2 teaching, teacher development, curriculum design, plurilingualism, and mediation.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Kathy Broad

Research Areas: Teacher professional learning, teacher education, teacher mentorship, continuing professional learning.
Open to Supervision: N/A

Sandra Styres

Research Areas: Teaching and learning in Indigenous contexts; Land-centered approaches to language, literacy, and curriculum; integrating Indigenous perspectives across levels and learner groups.
Open to Supervision: TBA

David Montemurro

Research Areas: Urban education, global citizenship and sustainability education. Global citizenship education, culturally responsive pedagogy and sustainability education. 
Open to Supervision: TBA

Angela Vemic

Research Areas: Focus on democratic citizenship, controversial issues, critical literacy, epistemic reflexivity, decolonizing knowledge, practitioner inquiry, and school-university partnerships in teacher education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jim Hewitt

Research Areas: Educational tech, discourse in collaborative learning, async distance ed, sociocultural supports for knowledge building in science, and multimedia/online tools for teacher development.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Katherine Rehner

Research Areas: Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, French as a Second Language (FSL) education (student confidence & proficiency) FSL teacher practice.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Karyn Cooper

Research Areas: Sociocultural dimensions of literacy and teacher education, Children's literature, Inclusion, equity, and democratic practice.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman

Research Areas: Educational linguistic, Linguistic diversity, Education rights of linguistic minorities, metacognition, migration & mobilities, Inclusive education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Marlene Scardamalia

Research Areas: Knowledge Building and global innovation to transform schools for knowledge creation; developing models, pedagogies, and technologies for inclusive knowledge societies.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Roger Mantie

Research Areas: Connections between schooling and society, with a focus on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Mary Reid

Research Areas: Math knowledge in pre-service teachers, math anxiety, STEM gender gap, and teaching efficacy, with recent work on race and gender intersectionality in math performance.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jen Gilbert

Research Areas: Queer and trans students, teachers, and families, controversies in sex education, gendered and racialized narratives of risk, sexuality, and youth
Open to Supervision: TBA

Shakina Rajendram

Research Areas: L2 learning, curriculum design, teacher education, and support for multilingual K–12/higher ed learners via translanguaging and multiliteracies pedagogies.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Cassie Brownell

Research Areas: Politics of identity, literacies, and civics in contemporary schooling. Critical literacies, digital literacies, and elementary education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Peter Trifonas

Research Areas: Poststructuralism, critical theory, ethics, converging literacies, curriculum theory, philosophy of education, sociocultural studies, technology, and media.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Cecilia Morgan

Research Areas: Gender, colonialism, and imperialism in the British Empire; popular history writing in 19th–20th c. Ontario; gender, culture, and imperial identity.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jeff Steele

Research Areas: Focus on L2/L3 linguistic competence (esp. pronunciation), language assessment, evidence-based teaching, and bilingual children's literacy development.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Arlo Kempf

Research Areas: Anti-racism and anti-colonialism in K–12 and teacher education, critical whiteness and white supremacy, and critical views on neoliberalism in education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Pablo Robles-Garcia

Research Areas: Spanish language learning, second language acquisition, vocabulary teaching and learning and vocabulary testing.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Sameena Eidoo

Research Areas: Critical pedagogies, race theory, decolonizing methods, anti-racism, Islam, hip hop, human rights, feminism, narrative strategy, education, youth politics.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Julie Kerekes

Research Areas: Language, intercultural communication, and employment outcomes for internationally educated professionals.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Qui Alexander

Research Areas: Gender, Sexuality, Trans & Black trans studies, abolition and transformative justice, Black feminist thought & critical pedagogies.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Rob Simon

Research Areas: Practitioner research, critical literacy, and New Literacy Studies; how educators build curriculum and pedagogy from students’ diverse cultures, languages, and literacy practices.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Cathy Marks Krpan

Research Areas: Support for struggling students and ELLs in math education, teaching of argumentation, and use of think-alouds and self-talk in math learning.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Andrew B. Campbell

Research Areas: Equity, diversity, inclusion, cultural competency, education leadership, 2SLGBTQ+ issues, Teacher performance evaluation.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Garfield Gini Newman

Research Areas: Effective assessment practice. Critical thinking in learning, how to create classrooms for deep learning through sustained inquiry.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Marie-Paule Lory

Research Areas: Linguistic social representation among language learners; inclusion of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching practices in primary and secondary school.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Carol-Ann Burke

Research Areas: Science and science teacher education, postcolonial theory in science education, underrepresented youth in STEM, and interdisciplinary approaches to academic learning.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jeff Bale

Research Areas: Language-education policy and teacher education, linguistic dimensions of systemic racism at school.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Sarfaroz Niyosov

Research Areas: Teacher development and education reform in developing, Muslim, and post-communist contexts; global education, international and comparative curriculum studies/education.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Rishi Krishnamoorthy

Research Areas: Desettling colonial approaches to research methodology, co-designing justice-oriented science curricula with youth and teachers, youth and identity.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Marie-Paule Lory

Research Areas: Linguistic social representation among language learners as well as the inclusion of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching practices in primary and secondary school.
Open to Supervision: TBA

Jed Dela Cruz

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