The Incoming JTE Host Editorship Team - from the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2008-2012 Journal of Teacher Education Host Editorship Team Selected

The College of Education (COE) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has been selected as the next institutional home of the Journal of Teacher Education under the editorship of Drs. Sandra J. Odell, M. Christopher Brown II, Elizabeth Spalding, and Jian Wang, in collaboration with two associate editors, Drs. Cari L. Klecka and Emily Lin. This six-member team is strategically situated at the front lines of the critical challenge facing teacher education today: preparing the large number of quality teachers needed to meet the needs of the diverse children who attend urban schools. Under their editorship, the JTE will continue to focus on the core missions of teacher education and serve as a forum for the systematic examination of a wide range of voices, perspectives, and approaches to the field.
As incoming editors, the new team will work with the outgoing editors to ensure a smooth transition. The new team will share full editorial responsibilities for the JTE beginning with the January/February 2010 (Vol. 61, Number 1) issue through the May/June 2012 issue (Vol. 63, Number 3). They will begin accepting and issuing calls for articles in July 1, 2008.
About the New Editors:

Sandra J. Odell
Sandra J. Odell is professor and chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She has maintained a career-long research interest in teacher development, teacher induction, and mentoring. She served on the Advisory Panel for the $10 million Mathematica, Inc.- Office of Education study on the impact of intensive teacher induction and on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education’s (NCATE) Teacher Residency Programs Advisory Panel. She has chaired and served on several Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) national commissions related to mentoring, induction, and teacher development. Dr. Odell was the recipient of the 1999 National Distinguished Teacher Educator Award from ATE and Wadsworth Publishing Company.

M. Christopher Brown II
M. Christopher Brown II is professor and dean of the College of Education.  He previously served as vice president for programs and administration at AACTE, director of social justice and professional development for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and executive director and chief research scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). His research addresses issues of higher education leadership and governance, postsecondary statutory and legal concerns, institutional history, and collegiate diversity. Dr. Brown earned the 2001 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and 2002 AERA early career awards for research and scholarly writing on higher education policy and administration. 

Elizabeth Spalding
Elizabeth Spalding is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, where she teaches courses in English education. She is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), past president of the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English, and a former director of a National Writing Project site. She was project manager for standards at NCTE in Urbana, Illinois, where she worked on the development of the national standards for English language arts. Dr. Spalding’s research interests include performance and portfolio assessment, secondary English teaching and teachers, and experiential learning.

Jian Wang
Jian Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. His publications focus on teacher mentoring, mathematics teaching and learning, and influences of curriculum on teacher learning in the United States, England, and China. They have appeared in journals such as Educational Researcher, Review of Education Research, Teachers College Record, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Elementary School Journal. Dr. Wang was a teacher and policy analyst in China. He worked for the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) curriculum project and the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning (NCRTL) teacher-mentoring project. He served as the guest editor of New England Mathematics Journal and received a research grant from The Spencer Foundation.

Cari L. Klecka
Cari Klecka is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She teaches courses in research on teaching, curriculum, and action research. Dr. Klecka works in collaboration with the Clark County (NV) School District on the Initiative on National Board Certification, which focuses on candidate recruitment and professional development and preparation for National Board-certified teachers who serve as support providers. Her research interests include professional identity and the role of technology and development of communities designed to support teacher education. Dr. Klecka also serves on the ATE National Commission on the Assessment of the Teacher Educator Standards.

Emily Lin
Emily Lin is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is the coordinator of the Teacher Education and Secondary Education programs at UNLV. Her professional and scholarly agenda focuses on teacher education reform with a concentration in international studies and comparative teaching and learning in mathematics and science education. She served as an evaluator on a number of National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and conducts analyses of international data such as TIMSS and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (OECD-PISA). She serves currently on two journal editorial boards and was awarded AERA’s Outstanding Reviewer Award for her contributions to Educational Researcher in 2007.

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