PRISE Scholars
(Click on each name below to view the Curriculum Vita)
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Dane Bozeman (M.Ed., Texas A&M University)
Dane comes to us from West Texas where he taught high school science and mathematics in both public and parochial settings. Dane has also owned his own business and worked in a variety of fields from construction to dog-training. In his leisure time, Dane writes classical and popular music for guitar, producing four albums in the past 13 years. Dane’s research interests include statewide education policies, the role of categorical data analysis techniques in education research, and the effect of student enrollment issues upon science teacher professional decisions.
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Tori Hollas (B.A., Houston Baptist University)
Tori comes to us from Seven Lakes High School in Katy ISD where she was an Instructional Technology Facilitator. She also worked for nine years as a public school teacher in Katy ISD and Houston ISD. She brings a great deal of technology experience into educational research. Her research interests include educational technology, science teaching and learning, and teacher staff development.
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Toni Ivey (M.Ed., Texas A&M University)
Toni comes to us from MacArthur High School where she taught IPC, Chemistry, and Physics for 3 years. There she gained knowledge of teaching in large urban schools, teaching diverse populations, most with low socio-economic status. Prior to MacArthur, she taught as a graduate assistant for physical geology and geological field methods courses. Her research interests include science teacher education, science teaching and learning, and education policy.
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Ra'Sheedah Richardson (M.Ed., Texas A&M University)
Ra’sheedah is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction. Her decade of experience in science and science education include work as a biology Research Technician studying regulatory genes in E.coli and curriculum designer of the website Stepping into Biotechnology. Ra’sheedah received her teacher certification in biology in 2003. Her current interests include the development of instructional strategies emphasizing authentic science and specialization of school recruitment practices for science teachers.
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Sara Spikes (M.S., UTMB - Houston)
Coming soon.... |
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Caroline Vasquez (M.Ed., Texas A&M University)
Caroline is a Graduate Student completing a Ph.D in Science Education. Caroline is especially interested in understading how the sociocultural and political economic conditions of educational contexts can be used to lever teaching and learning. At the forefront of this interest, is a life commitment to create loving, equitable, enriching and effective educational conditions for all children by bringing together worlds in any level of the spectrum and fostering joint efforts. Caroline aims at finding ways to bring about new ways to do teaching and learning in the belief that a different world is possible. |
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Robert Wilson (B.S., Sam Houston State University)
Robert is currently a Masters Candidate and has been accepted as a Doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction. He spent eleven years presenting science education to children of all ages in both private and public school settings. His experience spans from teaching science to pre-school children to teaching physical and life science to junior high students. Through his own passion for science education and use of technology in his classrooms, he actively engaged students of all ages in scientific learning. His research interests lie in the realm of informal science.
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