Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Department Chair
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Ann Marie Ryan, Ph.D. is professor and chair for the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ILT) at UTSA. She teaches courses in ILT and Curriculum and Instruction. Her areas of focus are teacher preparation, secondary education, the teaching of history and social studies, and the history of education. Her teaching and research concentrate on the connections between teaching and learning in P-12 schools, communities, and teacher preparation. Within the history of education, she specializes in examining intersections between Catholic schools and public education policy in the United States from the early to mid-twentieth century. Ann Marie has published in an array of journals including The Journal of Teacher Education, Review of Research in Education, and the American Journal of Education.
Ann Marie served as a co-editor for the Review of Research in Education. She and the editorial team worked on a volume focusing on teaching practices in P-20 educational settings and a second volume examining the quality of research evidence in education. She served as the Program Chair for Division F (History and Historiography) of AERA in 2017 and is a Past President of the Organization of Educational Historians.
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Faculty
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Iliana Alanis, Ph.D.
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Anderson is recognized as a master teacher and believes that teaching informs research and research informs teaching. To this end, his teaching portfolio includes Education Psychology Application to Teaching, Applications of Educational Technology, Instructional Design for Interactive Learning Environments, Multicultural Education, Cognitive Approaches to Learning, Principles of Curriculum Improvement, Education Research Methods, Artificial Intelligence for Education, and Curriculum Design and Evaluation. Anderson has performed research in the areas of instructional technology, distance education, diversity, inclusive leadership and campus climate. These interests have led to scholarly activity producing 14 publications, over 60 regional, national and international presentations and serving as the Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Principal Investigator for two U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) grants totaling 13.5 million dollars.
Anderson earned a Ph.D. in instructional technology, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia Tech, and a Master of Science in curriculum and instruction from Radford University.
Myron Anderson, Ph.D.
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Dr. María Guadalupe Arreguín earned her doctoral degree in Bilingual Education at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Her work illuminates the intricacies of cultural and linguistic factors that influence minority students’ access to education in early childhood and elementary bilingual settings. Her research on young children’s translanguaging practices, critical science pedagogy, and the intersections of language and social justice has been published in top venues in the field, such as the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, the Journal of Latinos and Education, the Bilingual Research Journal, the Journal for the Education of the Gifted, the Journal of Environmental Education, and Action in Teacher Education.
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), Bilingual SIG selected Dr. María Guadalupe Arreguín, Professor of Early Childhood & Elementary Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching as the recipient of 2014 Bilingual Education Research SIG Early Career Award.
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Emily Bonner, Ph.D.
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Dr. Richard Boon is an Associate Professor of Special Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching in the College of Education and Human Development at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his Ph.D. in Special Education from George Mason University and earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University.
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Dr. Carmona is a Professor in STEM Education at The University of Texas at San Antonio and also serves as Executive Director of ConTex, an initiative between the University of Texas System and Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) to foster binational academic collaborations between Mexico and Texas that are mutually beneficial for both countries. Dr. Carmona’s research has focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovation and technology-supported educational reforms in STEM education in national and international settings. She also conducts research on formative assessment of student learning that takes place in the classroom, and how the use of these practices and indicators can be extended on a large scale. Dr. Carmona’s research agenda for the past 20 years has focused on broadening participation in STEM and addressing the need to prepare the next generation of students who can have democratic access to the fundamental and complex ideas in STEM from an early age. Dr. Carmona has secured more than $12M in external funding. Her work has been translated into different languages and has extended to countries including the U.S., Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Greece. Dr. Carmona’s work has impacted more than 20,000 students, 150 teachers, and dozens of researchers.
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Langston Clark is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the College of Education and Human Development. Langston completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) at The University of Texas at Austin. Before obtaining his Ph.D., he received his M.A. in Adapted Physical Education from The Ohio State University and a B.S. in Physical Education from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T). Given his experience as an undergraduate at A&T, a Historically Black College/Universities (HBCUs), he has developed a passion for the continued development and elevation of minority-serving institutions. Dr. Clark's research focuses on the training of Black physical educators and kinesiologists at HBCUs. His other research interest includes the intersections of athletics, race, and education.
Dr. Clark has over 20 research publications featured in The Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, The Journal of Negro Education, Quest, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and The Journal of Black Psychology. He has also participated in 40 national and international research presentations. For his accomplishments as a researcher, Dr. Clark has been awarded the Mabel Lee Young Professional Award and the Leroy T. Walker Young Professional Award, which recognizes the commitments of young scholars dedicated to social justice by the Society of Health and Physical Educators of America.
As a public intellectual, Dr. Clark is the founder and host of Entrepreneurial Appetite, a series of events dedicated to building community, promoting intellectualism, and supporting Black businesses. Recordings of these discussions are available on the Entrepreneurial Appetite Black Book Discussions Podcast. Additionally, he has been a featured guest on several podcasts, including What's New in Adapted Physical Education, BAME PE, Black + in Grad School, and Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education.
Dr. Clark is committed to increasing the quality of the Black experience in higher education. Through service as an Alumni Fellow in The Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males at The University of Texas at Austin, he actively participates in mentoring Black males through higher education. As a dedicated alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Clark founded From A&T To Ph.D., a community of support for Aggies in the doctoral pipeline. At UTSA, he is the faculty leader of the Black Student Initiatives fundraiser, which is designed to support programming for Black student leaders. To date, this initiative has raised over 20,000 dollars.
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Kathy Ewoldt, Ph.D.
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Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski, Ph.D.
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Dr. Maria Gonzales has a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education 1-8, and a Master of Science degree in Bilingual and ESL. Dr. Gonzales earned her doctorate degree in Education from the Texas A&M system and has earned numerous certifications including Early Childhood Education, Mid-Management, Supervision Pre-K-12, and Art. She has taught PreK-12 grades, including Project Smart, Migrant Head Start, Public School Head Start programs, GED and Adult ESL courses and bilingual/At-Risk teacher, Mentor Teacher, Lead Instructor, and Clinical Teacher Supervisor at various public-school districts, community college course and university undergraduate and graduate level courses in Texas for over 35 years. Her past administrative roles include, Migrant Head Start Education Specialist, Elementary Facilitator, Dyslexia Secondary Coordinator, Education/Early Childhood/College Success Program Chair at a community college setting and Coordinator of Project Smart Summer school program. Dr. Gonzales Coordinated and developed a TExES Teacher Test Preparation Lab at the former University of Texas-Pan American, now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She has served on Child Welfare and Head Start Boards. Her greatest accomplishment was securing a grant along with her team from the U.S. Department of Education to spearhead the building of an Early Childhood Center in Deep South Texas. Dr. Gonzales joined The University of Texas San Antonio in 2016. She continues to be an advocate for Teachers and learning equity opportunities for all children and students enrolled in all school settings at the community, state, and national levels.
Associate Professor of Instruction
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Zaid M. Haddad is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies & Curriculum and Instruction and a member of the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching.
As a teacher educator and social justice advocate, my research interests in understanding the ways we negotiate our many intersecting identities as we encounter new and changing contexts. Prior to joining the faculty at UTSA, I was a visiting faculty member and doctoral student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Before pursuing my Ph.D., I taught high school social studies and was a student council advisor for five years.
At UTSA, I maintain an ambitious research agenda and provide service within my fields of study at the local and national levels. I teach courses at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels.
Associate Professor of Instruction
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Janis M. Harmon is a Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Educational Theory and Practice. Her publications reflect her research interests which include children’s and young adult literature and effective middle school and high school literacy programs with a special emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and instruction. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate literacy courses for educators interested in teaching at the middle school and high school levels.
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Rosalind Horowitz is a professor of Discourse and Literacy Studies in the Reading and Literacy Program of the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching of the College of Education and Human Development with a joint appointment in the Department of Educational Psychology. Dr. Horowitz earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities Campus with graduate work at Harvard University and the Hebrew University - Jerusalem. She has been a Visiting Scholar at The University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and in Russia and the Ukraine.
Dr. Horowitz is Chair of the American Educational Research Association, Special Interest Group (SIG) on Research in Reading and Literacy, has been a member of several Divisions of AERA, has served as a member of the Executive Council overseeing 140 SIG's of AERA.
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Dr. Kalinec-Craig is a native of Houston and graduated from the University of Houston with her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 2001, from Texas A&M at College Station in 2006 with her master's in Mathematics, and from University of Arizona in 2012 with her doctorate in teaching and teacher education.†She has taught in North Carolina, Mississippi, Arizona, and Germany. As an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching department of UTSA, she teaches the Approaches to Teaching Mathematics in EC-6 Classrooms course, Theory of Curriculum and Instruction, Research in Action, and Qualitative Phenomenological Research Methods. She was awarded a faculty seed grant from UTSA about the experiences of elementary and middle school mathematics teachers as they learn to integrate art into their mathematics lessons (TeíALaMo Project: Teachers, Art from Latin@ Cultures, and Mathematical Modeling). She was selected as a 2014 fellow for the STAR Program (Service, Teaching, And, Research) Program. Dr. Kalinec-Craig is interested in issues of equity in teacher educators as they relate to asset-focused teaching practices. Dr. Kalinec-Craig†has contributed to research publications for the Journal of Teacher Education, the International Journal of Educational Research, Teacher College Record, the Association of Mexican American Educators, Democracy and Education, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Dr. Kalinec-Craigís current work focuses on the Rights of the Learner, a framework that teachers can use to promote equity through divergent formative assessment. She is the co-director of the SEE Math (Support and Enrichment Experiences in Mathematics) program that supports prospective elementary teachers as they learn to adopt equity-oriented practices with children and families in San Antonio.
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Dr. Yi-Fan Li earned her Ph.D. at Texas A&M University with a major in Educational Psychology and emphasis in Special Education. Before she came to the U.S., she was a special education teacher for five years, mainly teaching students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and multiple disabilities in a high school. During her teaching career, she had the experience of being a transition coordinator. This valuable experience led her to keep exploring the transition education for individuals with disabilities. She is also interested in working with teacher candidates to explore inclusive teaching practices, such as universal design for learning, to support students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
The current projects she is working on: Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Classroom: Translating Research to Practices Step-by-Step.
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Dr. Cynthia Lima is an Assistant Professor in STEM Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching. Her research, teaching, and service have focused on developing and examining equitable approaches to teaching and learning STEM anchored on current issues to foster participation in STEM practices. Dr. Lima's research also focuses on equity and innovations in STEM assessment. While at UTSA, Dr. Lima has secured funding from the National Science Foundation and other organizations to support her research and teaching. Her local, national, and international research and publications demonstrate her commitment to equity and increasing participation in STEM.
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Vittorio Marone, Ph.D.
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“Land is, therefore we are." Bang et al. (2014) In the Carrizo/Comecrudo language, the ancestral place name of San Antonio, Texas, is Yanawena, meaning "the place where I rest my head."
In Coahuilteca, a pidgin language shared many distinct Indigenous peoples across the greater region, the term Yanaguana means "spirit waters."
Either version is acceptable as a respectful form of acknowledgment of the land, water, and many generations of caretakers of the greater community, which includes the Estok'Gna, Coahuilteca, Tlaxcalteca, Apache, and Comanche, as well as assorted other band-based peoples Indigenous to the territories now called south Texas. These are my ancestral territories and familial genealogies. I am honored to live and work in San Antonio as a critically engaged educator/activist/scholar/relative/community member.
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Dr. Bekisizwe S. Ndimande is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching and Faculty Associate in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the College of Education and Human Development. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Ndimande’s lines of research inquiry focuses on curriculum studies, education policy, multicultural education, and international comparative studies. His previously published volume entitled, Privatization and the Education of Marginalized Children: Policies, Impacts and Global Lessons, (co-edited with Dr. Christopher Lubienski) was published by Routledge in 2017. Other notable publications include: Pedagogy of the Township in Sonia Nieto’s Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach (edited collection); Race and Resources (Race Ethnicity and Education journal); Unravelling the Neocolonial Epistemologies (Journal of Literacy Research); Lutas Docentes nas Escolas Públicas para negros na África do Sul pósapartheid (Cadernos de Educação,a Brazilian journal). Dr. Ndimande’s essay, From Bantu Education to the Fight for Socially Just Education published in Equity & Excellence in Education was among the 18 articles selected by Taylor & Francis as representative of the interdisciplinary nature of social justice studies. Recently, Dr. Ndimande was invited to be a member of the Professors of Curriculum Honorary Society, a national organization for scholars whose research has made outstanding contributions to the field of curriculum studies. Additionally, he was also invited to serve as a Fellow at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) at Indiana University. Currently, Dr. Ndimande is the editor of the Critical Studies in Education journal.
Bekisizwe Ndimande, Ph.D.
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Rica Ramírez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education in the Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Department at UTSA. As an Educational Psychologist, she conducts applied research within the context of early childhood specifically focusing on the Latino population residing in the United States. The purpose of her research agenda is four-fold: 1.) To determine how external factors (i.e., home and school) influence the school readiness development of young Latino children, 2.) To identify the way maternal responsiveness impacts young Latino children’s language development, 3.) To explore the intersectionality of culture and identity, and 4.) to examine bilingualism within children who have developmental language disorders. Dr. Ramírez teaches Quantitative Analysis and Research Design in ILT, Family Engagement Policy, and Advocacy, Reconceptualizing Sociocultural Contexts in ECE, as well as Child Growth and Development.
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Timothy T. Yuen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching. Dr. Yuen’s research interests include broadening diversity and improving student success in computer science and engineering across the education pipeline. He currently has two grants funded by the National Science Foundation to support his research: CS4SA-HS: Developing a collaborative of secondary computer science teachers to increase Latinx participation in CS (NSF #1923269) and Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Effects of Stereotype Threats on Latina/o Students’ Success in Undergraduate Engineering (NSF #1925630). He is an active member of education special interest groups of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Yuen is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Sciences, Joint Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Sciences, and Courtesy Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering. Dr. Yuen received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Instructional Technology from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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Dr. Roxanne Henkin, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching at The University of Texas at San Antonio, earned her doctorate from Northern Illinois University and has 18 years of teaching experience in public schools. She then taught at National-Louis University in Chicago before joining the faculty at The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2003. Dr. Henkin’s research interests include confronting bullying through literacy, inclusive classrooms, supporting LGBTQ+ students, critical literacy for social justice, writing process and instruction, in-service staff development in literacy, and multiliteracies and multimodal digital literacies. She has published many articles and two books, Who’s Invited to Share: Using Literacy to Teach for Equity and Social Justice and Confronting Bullying: Literacy as a Tool for Character Education, both published by Heinemann.
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Miriam G. Martinez is a Professor Emeritus. She teaches reading and children’s literature courses at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She conducts content analyses of children’s books as well as research on children’s responses to literature and their understanding of various literary genres and formats. In addition to articles in various journals, her publications include Children's Books in Children's Hands, Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature, and Books Come Alive. She is actively involved in the Children’s Literature Assembly and serves on the board of the United States Board of Books for Young People. In addition, she is currently serving as chair of the primary sub-committee of the ILA Children’s & Young Adult Book Awards Committee, and is also a member of the regional committee of the Tomás Rivera Award Committee. She has served as co-editor of the Journal of Children’s Literature and the Journal of Literacy Research. She has served on various award committees including the Caldecott, the Geisel, and the Sibert Committees.
Miriam Martinez, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
College of Education and Human Development
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