LiDA Affiliated Faculty

Andrea Barrett – Assistant Professor (Clinical), Co-Chair Educational Leadership

Andrea is an Assistant Professor in the Higher Education program. Her research and practice interests include student affairs administration, academic operations, curricular impacts on alumni employability, and student affairs staff preparedness. She teaches online and in-person courses on contemporary issues in higher education, student affairs administration, and leadership and management. She is currently a PI on a research project exploring the implications of Artificial Intelligence for higher education student affairs professionals.

A former high school science teacher, elementary building principal and K-12 district curriculum leader, Andrea has experience in leveraging technology for school and district improvement in a variety of contexts. Her scholarly interests are K-12 STEM and school and district leader identity development. As a professor at Warner, Andrea is passionate about improving access to curriculum and improving schools to provide more equitable supports and services to K-12 students. At LiDA, Andrea shares her experiences as a practitioner in using technology in the higher education classroom to model for perspective K-12 leaders how technology can be leveraged to improve learning access and more successfully personalize learning in K-12 schools and districts. She is also currently a co-PI in an NSF-funded Noyce Master Teaching Fellowship program preparing 19 STEM master teachers to leverage technology in service of more equitable and effective reform-based STEM teaching.

Michael Daley is an Associate Professor (Clinical) in the Warner School of Education and Executive Director of the Center for Professional Development and Education Reform. Daley teaches Digitally-Rich Teaching and Learning and has interest in STEM professional learning. He is the PI of the Noyce Northeast Professional Learning Network (NSF #2320386), subaward PI of Preparation For Persistence: Building A Community of Practice to Research and Support Noyce Scholars in High-Needs Schools (NSF # 2050641), and coPI of Developing STEM Master Teachers to Lead Digital Conversion in K-12 Schools (NSF # 1758243), Noyce Track 3 project Developing Digitally-rich Urban Teacher Leaders: Fostering and Sustaining a STEM Culture of Belonging, Access, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (NSF #2150922), EAGER: Cultivating Scientific Mindsets in the Machine Learning Era (NSF #2225227).

Karen is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership with research interests in K-12 education policy, the allocation and distribution of educational resources, and administrative decision-making. She teaches online and in-person courses on policy analysis, economics of education, quantitative research methods, and decision-making. She is currently a co-PI on a 2023-24 NSF RAPID grant focused on understanding and supporting K-12 school leaders’ AI-related decision-making.

Nicole is an Assistant Professor in Teacher and Curriculum with research focus on the translingual and transmodal practices, including computer mediated practices, of multilingual students, families, and teachers. She teaches in-person and hyflex courses at Warner on teaching methods that support multilingual students in both content and language classrooms. She’s the PI on a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program, and she will teach an advanced seminar on Generative AI in Education in Spring 2024. 

Kristen is an Assistant Professor in Teacher and Curriculum with research focus on hyflex teaching and learning strategies in teacher preparation. She has received two mini UR-IT innovation grants to provide technical assistance on hyflex teaching across the University of Rochester.  She is also co-director of ROC Reading Partners, a new literacy program delivered remotely via Zoom, offering nightly literacy events to the homes for participating students.  Kristen teaches in-person, online, and hy-flex courses at Warner for early childhood and childhood candidates.

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Hairong Shang is an associate professor in Teaching and Curriculum and teaches in-person and Hyflex courses at Warner on language teaching methods and academic writing. She’s the PI of a Mother Cabrini Health Foundation grant titled Employment and Career Advancement Equity: A Highly Flexible English Language Program for Immigrants and Refugees.  She is also a Co-PI & cultural liaison on a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program.

Carol Anne St. George is a Professor (clinical) in Teaching and Curriculum and directs the Reading and Literacies Teacher Preparation Program. Her research interests include how to best support literacy development from prebirth throughout life, using literacy as a tool to promote equity, and exploring ways to collaborate with families (broadly defined) to support their child’s literacy learning. She is director of Project READ, a long-standing literacy intervention program supporting students in the Rochester City School District, and co-director of ROC Reading Partners, a new literacy program delivered remotely via Zoom, offering nightly literacy events to the homes for participating students. St. George is also CoPI of two other literacy initiatives involving online resources: Using Literacy to Prevent Bullying, and Reading2Babies.

Patricia is an Assistant Professor in the K-12 Educational Leadership Program and serves as Program Director. Her interests include leadership development and decision making, equity, inclusion and mental health in school settings. She teaches in person, hybrid and hyflex courses. She is currently a co-PI on a 2023-24 NSF RAPID grant focused on understanding and supporting K-12 school leaders’ AI-related decision-making.