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| Dorene Ross
Professor
School of Teaching and Learning
College of education
University of Florida
2215D Norman Hall PO Box 117048
Gainesville FL 32611
352-392-0751 x226
Fax: 352-392-9193 |
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Research Biography
Dr. Dorene Ross joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 1979 and is currently an Irving and Rose Fien Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning and a faculty partner in the LastingerCenter for Learning. She has a long history of work in teacher education with particular emphasis on preparing students to work with diverse student populations and played a leadership role in the design and implementation of the current Unified Elementary ProTeach program. Her current work is focused around engagement with schools and scholarship focused intensively around issues related to poverty and school reform. She works extensively in providing staff development in poverty schools and serves as a Professor-in-Residence at two poverty schools, which have both substantially raised achievement. Since 2003, Dr. Ross has worked with and assumed leadership roles within the LastingerCenter for Learning, an endowed center with a mission to improve the educational outcomes for elementary children particularly those living in poverty. Over the past five years the Center has developed a school improvement model that is now being used in 38 elementary schools in five Florida school districts.
Degrees
Ed.D. - University of Virginia, 1978, Early Childhood Education
M.Ed. - William and Mary, 1975, Elementary Education
B.A. - University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1972, Childhood Education
| Jeanne Repetto Associate Professor Department of Special Education College of Education University of Florida 1400 Norman Hall PO Box 117040 Gainesville FL 32611 352-392-0701 x261 Fax: 352-392-4443 |
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Research Biography
I am an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Florida. I teach courses in transition, teaching strategies, and issues in special education. My research interests lie in the areas of secondary/transition education relating to community, employment, and personal/social choices; middle school education; teachers as effective change agents; and student outcomes.
Degrees
Ph.D. - University of Missouri, 1986, Special Education, Curriculum Development
M.A. - WashingtonUniversity, 1976, Special Education
B.S. - University of Missouri, 1973, Special Education
Dale Pracht
Assistant Professor
Community Based Organizational Systems in 4-H Youth
3014-C McCarty Hall D
Community Based Organizational Systems in 4-H Youth
3014-C McCarty Hall D
Abstract
Dr. Dale Pracht joined the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences in August of 2007. His appointment is 70% extension and 30% teaching. Before joining the Department, he worked as Assistant Director for the Texas A&M University Career Center. In addition to working in the Career Center, he has also been an Assistant 4-H Youth Specialist and a 4-H Youth Agent in Kansas.
In 2007, he received his Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Education from Texas A&M University. His dissertation emphasis was on evaluating the cognitive process of students enrolled in a 20-hour service-learning experience while enrolled in a collegiate social problems course. He received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Kansas State University.
His specialties are service-learning, youth leadership development, volunteer management in non-profit organizations, career education, college student development, leadership of organizational systems, and youth and adult education.
Dale is excited to work in the department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences and looks forward to assisting with community based organizational systems in 4-H youth development for the state of Florida.
Dr David Diehl
Assistant Professor
Program Planning and Evaluation
3038A McCarty Hall D
(352) 273-3526
Program Planning and Evaluation
3038A McCarty Hall D
(352) 273-3526
Abstract
Dr. David Diehl joined the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences in May of 2007. His appointment is 70% extension and 30% teaching.
Before joining the Department, he worked for non-profit organizations seeking to apply research and evaluation knowledge in a variety of community settings. His most recent employment was as Associate Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Center for Practical Evaluation at the Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute in North Carolina. His recent projects include: the evaluation of Under One Sky, an asset-based adoption project for youth in the foster care system; the creation of a parent’s association, FACES of Virginia Families, for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents in Virginia; and the evaluation of family support and early childhood programs. Dr. Diehl’s interests include: program evaluation, strategic planning, parent leadership, family support, and asset-based human development.
Dr. Diehl will be teaching the undergraduate and graduate courses in program planning and evaluation and hopes to instill an appreciation and understanding of practical evaluations in his students.
He has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wyoming and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Human Development from Cornell University. He also has a wife, Elizabeth, who is a landscape architect, and three children, Logan (6), Isabella (2 ½), and Leila (11 months), all of whom keep him very busy and provide a real-life education in early childhood development.