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Samples of Faculty Professional Development and Affiliations
Faculty
Member Name
Professional Development Activities for the past 3 years
Anderson, Alida
2006-present Division for Learning Disabilities, Council for Exceptional Children
2004-present Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
1998-present Council for Exceptional Children
1998-present Division for Early Childhood, Council for Exceptional Children
1998-present American Educational Research Association
Anderson, A., Berry, K., & Loughlin, S.M. (2014, April). The influence of drama on elementary students’ oral narrative skill and on-task behavior. Presentation at the 2013 AERA Annual
Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Berry, K., & Anderson, A. (2014, April). Behavioral engagement of students with language-based learning disabilities in elementary arts integrated and conventional language arts
contexts. Presentation at the 2014 CEC Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
Anderson, A., Nagy, K., & Davis, R. (2013, August). Demonstrations of practice using arts integration in special education: Voices from the field. Panel presentation at the Arts
Education and Special Education Conference, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Anderson, A., Loughlin, S., & Berry, K. (2013, August). Classroom drama as a contextualized language-learning environment. Research presentation at the Arts Education and Special
Education Conference, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Anderson, A., Loughlin, S., & Berry, K. (2013, April). The influence of dramatic arts integration on teacher and student language in language arts contexts. Presentation at the 2013
AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Loughlin, S., Anderson, A., & Berry, K. (2013, April). Reading between the lines: Classroom discourse and academic rigor in traditional and drama-integrated language arts.
Presentation at the 2013 AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Anderson, A., Loughlin, S., & Berry, K. (2013, April). Influence of process drama on elementary students’ oral and written language. Presentation at the 2013 CEC Convention, San
Antonio, TX.
Berry, K., & Anderson, A. (2013, April). Teachers’ speech acts in elementary arts integrated and conventional language arts contexts. Presentation at the 2013 CEC Convention, San
Antonio, TX, April.
Anderson, A., Lin, C., & Wang, M. (2012, July). Native and novel language stress processing
Ayish, Nader
American Educational Research Association
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• Comparative and International Education Society
• National Association for Bilingual Education
• National Association for Multicultural Education
• International Society for Technology in Education
• American Association for Curriculum and Teaching
3/2012 Differentiation in an American and Palestinian Classroom: What Works
TESOL 2012 International Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Blumenthal, Sharon
National Council of Teachers of English (1995-present)
American Educational Research Association (2006-present)
The American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (2006 present)
The Question is the Answer: A Pedagogy of Inquiry in the Writing Classroom. Lecture and Workshop
presented at The 34th Annual Spring Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA (March, 2013)
Four voices, one song: A hermeneutic exploration of nostalgia. It is a tree of life to them that hold fast to
it. Paper presented at The Educational Symposium for Research and Innovations Conference, George
Washington University, Washington, DC (February, 2011)
Battlefields of Northern Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Serve as College Representative 2013-present
Crocker, Cathy
National, Virginia and Northern Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals
(NASSP and VASSP)
2008 – 2014 “Math = Fun”, SUCCESS Conferences, Prince William County, Virginia
Durham, Jennifer
National Art Education Association; Council for Exceptional Children
Felderman, Carol
National Council of Teachers of English
National Reading Conference
Whole Language Umbrella
Early Childhood Education Assembly
Garcia, Maya
DC Science Teachers Association- President - 2010- Present; 2011-2012- Smithsonian Ed Lab 2011-2012 Cohort, NEED Energy Workshop (October 2011). NSTA National Conference
(March, 2012), Presenter, Effective Teaching - Gates Foundation Convening, 2012), DCPS Professional Development Presenter- “Engaging students in Scientific Inquiry”
Hannum, Mark
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
American Association of Physics Teachers
National Science Teachers Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Herzig, Allison
Sponsor, Psychology Club, Langley High School
Hodges, Alex
American Library Association (ALA) member
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) division member
CHOICE reviewer
Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) member
Irvine Belson, Sarah
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
irvine belson vita, february 2013, page 12
o Reviewer for Division K conference proposals
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) (Divisions: CCBD, CEC-MR, DLD, TAM)
o Member: Maryland State Board of Directors (2011- present)
• EDUCAUSE, Advisory Member
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Irvine Belson, S. (2013). School Context and Teacher Retention in Urban Settings: The Case in
Washington DC. Paper to be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.
Irvine Belson, S. and Solomon, G. (2012). TPACK in Special Education. Paper presented at the
2012 Council for Exceptional Children Meeting and Conference, Denver, CO.
Keynes, M. Nolan, J. and Irvine Belson, S. (2011). Advanced Topics in High School Mathematics:
Enrichment or Advancement: The 2011 NSF Noyce Conference, Washington, DC.
American University - School of Education, Teaching and Health
Samples of Faculty Professional Development and Affiliations
Faculty
Member Name
Professional Development Activities for the past 3 years
Jaffe, Susan
DC Reads (American University)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
International Reading Association
Montgomery County Reading Council
State of Maryland Reading Council
Kramer, Leila
National Assosciation of Social Workers; American Psychological Association; Learning Disabilities Association of America
McGrath, Lauren
Dodd, H.F., McGrath, L.M., Dai, Y.,** Oates, J., Waxler, J., McDougle, C., Pober, B., Smoller,
J. (June 2014). Attentional biases for emotional faces in Williams Syndrome. Poster submitted for presentation at the Neurodevelopmental Seminar Series, Durham University,
Durham, UK, refereed.
Dai, Y.**, McGrath, L., Waxler, J., Oates, J., Clements, C., Weill, S., Hoffnagle, A., Anderson, E., MacRae, R., Mullett, J., Dodd, H., McDougle, C., Pober, B., Smoller, J. (May 2014).
Cognitive contributions to anxiety in Williams Syndrome. Poster accepted for presentation at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, New York, NY, refereed.
Doyle, A., McGrath, L. et al. (May 2014). Multivariate association between CDH13 variants and cortical thickness in ADHD. Poster accepted for presentation at the Society of
Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, New York, NY, refereed.
McGrath, L.M. on behalf of the Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for McGrath page 10
Lauren M. McGrath Merit/Annual Review SETH 2013
Genetics (TSAICG) and the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation Genetics Collaborative (IOCDFGC) (October, 2013). Copy number variation in obsessivecompulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome: A cross-disorder analysis. Presented at the 2013 American Society of Human Genetics meeting, Boston, MA, refereed.
Robinson, E., Samocha, K., Kosmicki, J., McGrath, L., Neale, B., Daly, M. (October 2013).
Evidence for phenotypically-lined bounds on the role of de novo loss of function variation in autism spectrum disorders. Presented at the 2013 American Society of Human Genetics
meeting, Boston, MA, refereed.
McGrath, L.M. on behalf of the Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics (TSAICG) and the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation
Genetics Collaborative (IOCDFGC) (October, 2013). Copy number variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome: A cross-disorder analysis. Presented at the
2013 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, MA, refereed.
McGrath, L.M., Braaten, E. B., Doty, N., O’Dushlaine, C., Chambert, K., Moran, J., Toner, D., Hudson, K., Ditmars, H., Blais, J., Hill, E., Neale, B., Smoller, J.W., Faraone, S. V., McCarroll, S.,
Ferreira, M.A.R., Doyle, A. E. (October 2013). Relating emerging schizophrenia genes to RDoC cognitive systems in a child clinical cohort. Presented at the 2013 World Congress of
Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, MA, refereed.
Wolf, A.** on behalf of the Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics (TSAICG) and the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation Genetics
Collaborative (IOCDFGC) (October 2013). Recurrent de novo Copy Number Variation within Neurodevelopmental Loci in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, MA, refereed.
Gallagher, P.J., Duncan, L., McGrath, L., Haddad, S., Holmes, A., Wolf, A., Blaya, C., Buckner, R., Ongur, D., Smoller, J., Cohen, B. (October 2013). The Human Ortholog of Acid-Sensing
Ion Channel Gene ASIC1a is Associated with Panic Disorder and Amygdala Structure and Function. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the World Congress on Psychiatric
Genetics, Boston, MA, refereed.
Dai, Y.**, McGrath, L., Waxler, J., Clements, C., Weill, S., Hoffnagle, A., Anderson, E.,
MacRae, R., Mullett, J., Dodd, H., McDougle, C., Pober, B., Smoller, J. (October 2013). Factors Contributing to Anxiety in Williams syndrome (WS). Poster presented at the annual MGH
Clinical Research Day, Boston, MA, unrefereed
McGrath, L.M. on behalf of the Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for
Genetics (TSAICG) and the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation Genetics Collaborative (IOCDFGC) (October 2013). Copy number variation in obsessivecompulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome: A cross-disorder analysis. Poster McGrath page 11
Lauren M. McGrath Merit/Annual Review SETH 2013
presented at the annual meeting of the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, MA, refereed.
Nuevo, Ana-Maria
Independent Consultant, Rosetta Stone, Inc., January - June 2012
Independent Consultant, Berlitz Languages, Inc., April - June 2010
Employment opportunities in education.
January 2014. Talk given at Virginia International University’s School of Education Voices from the
Field Speaker Series, Fairfax, Virginia
The dynamics of bilingual education.
October 2013. Talk given at American University’s College of Arts & Science’s Graduate Studies
Night, Washington, DC. Available via ITunes University Podcast (American University-SETH).
Listening to our teachers’ hidden voices: The contextual influence of teacher motivation.
September 2013. Paper presented at American University’ School of Education, Teaching and
Health Faculty Colloquium, Washington, DC
Snelling, Anastasia
• American Dietetic Association - Registered, 1981
• Association of School Health
• American Association of Public Health
• American College of Nutrition
• Society of Nutrition Education
Taste-Test Interventions Spark Elementary-School Children’s Interests and Appetites (with S. Sunderlin, M. Kalicki, C. Newman, L. Mancino, J. Guthrie). American Society of Nutrition
Conference. December 2013.
School wellness policies: Are they achieving the intended results? (with S. Irvine Belson). American School Health Association Conference. October 2013.
Understanding the factors that influence school food pantry participation (with A. Jacknowitz, A. Brannegan, and M. Moroto). National Association for Welfare Research and
Statistics. August 2013.
School meals experiment: Can a taste test increase vegetable acceptance? (with C. Newman, L. Mancino, J. Guthrie). Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. August
2013.
Identifying current and best practices: Washington, DC experience. Institute of Medicine’s National Nutrition Education Curriculum Standards Workshop. March 2013.
Understanding school-based pantries (with M. Maroto and A. Jacknowitz). Feeding America Webinar. 2013.
Addressing food insecurity through school-based food pantries: Identifying best practices (with M. Maroto, and A. Jacknowitz). National Institutes of Health Conference on
Eliminating Health Disparities. 2012.
Harnessing the power of teachers in the fight against health disparities (with J. Ernst and D. Holly). National Institutes of Health Conference on Eliminating Health Disparities. 2012.
Shaping school health policy to address childhood obesity. American College of Nutrition Annual Conference. 2012.
Understanding Feeding America elementary school-based food pantries. (with M. Maroto). Feeding America Agency Capacity Programs and Nutrition Conference. 2012.
Health Coaching: A call for dietitians to lead. (with M. Gaughan) Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Meeting. 2012.
Health & Education Student Behaviors: Are students entering the caring professions caring for themselves? (with M. Maroto) Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior Annual
Conference. 2012.
DC’s Healthy Schools Act: Creating a healthy environment to Address the Obesity Crisis Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior Annual Conference. 2012.
The Healthy Schools Act: A district-wide strategy to improve the school health environment. Weight of the Nation Conference. 2012.
School health policies: Food consumption patterns. (with K. Young*) Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference. 2012.
School health barriers and gateways to wellness: A teacher’s perspective. (with M. Howard* & J. Ernst) Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference. 2012.
Teachers as health role models. (with J. Ernst) American Public Health Association Conference. 2011.
Harnessing the power of ongoing social assessment. (with A. Farr) Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference. 2011.
Snyder, Jason
Stewart, Susan
Tesconi, Charles
Philosophy of Education Society (Fellow)
John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture
American Educational Research Association
American Educational Studies Association (Charter Member)
Phi Delta Kappa
American University - School of Education, Teaching and Health
Samples of Faculty Professional Development and Affiliations
Faculty
Member Name
Trenkle, Amy
Professional Development Activities for the past 3 years
National Council for the Social Studies, National Middle School Association, National Geographic, Organization of
American Historians, National Council of History Education, Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, DC
Geographic Alliance
Vassallo, S. Neoliberal Subjectivity, Self-Regulated Learning, and 21st Century
Competencies: Critical Considerations. American Educational Studies Association
(AESA), Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 2012.
Vassallo, S. & Tzy Horng Sai, T. Neoliberal Self and Self-Regulated Learning: Critical
Considerations. Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (STPP), Midwinter
Meeting, Austin TX, February 2012.
Vassallo, Stephen
Vassallo, S. Resistance to Self-Regulated Learning Pedagogy in an Urban Classroom: A Critique
of Neoliberalism. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Annual Meeting, St.
Louis, November 2011.
Vassallo, S. Self-regulated Learning: An Application of Critical Educational Psychology. In T.
Corcoran (Chair), Critical educational psychology: Enabling conditions in theory and
practice. Symposium held during the biennial conference of the International Society for
Theory and Psychology (ISTP), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2011.
Vasquez, Vivian
Early Childhood Education Assembly (2007-2013)
Podcasters Across Borders (2006-2012)
International Reading Association (1998-Present)
Member, National Council of Teachers of English. (1990 - Present).
Whole Language Umbrella 1991-Present
Voted Member : Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking (2000-Present)
Member, American Educational Research Association. (1999 - Present).
Vasquez, V. and Felderman, C. (2011). 'Podcasting and Critical Literacy in a 2nd
Grade Classroom'. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention.
Chicago, IL.
Vasquez, V., Felderman, C., Herring, L., Kapinus, L., Meshberger, S., Jackson, A.
(2011). 21st Century Literacies In Early Childhood Classrooms. National Council
of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.