School of Education Faculty
Janis Flint-Ferguson
Professor of Education and English
Chair, Middle-Secondary Education
Both a composition and English education specialist, Dr. Flint-Ferguson began teaching at Gordon in 1990. Her additional areas of interest and scholarship include adolescent literature, women's literature, literacy, and rhetorical theory. Dr. Flint-Ferguson is a widely sought-after educational consultant. She is also the editor of The Journal of the New England League of Middle Schools, a refereed publication focusing on strategies ... more ➔
Gregory Keller
Professor of Biology
Chair, Department of Biology
About:
Dr. Keller joined Gordon College in 2007 after teaching for five years at Eastern New Mexico University, where he was an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology.
Essays written by Keller for a general audience include: "Denizens of the Autumn Air" and "A Sense of Shared (Avian) Presence." ... more ➔
Priscilla Nelson
Associate Professor of Education
Chair, Elementary Education
Priscilla Nelson, Class of '74, returned to Gordon's Education Department after twenty years of combined experience as a public school classroom teacher, an elementary Christian school principal, and an adjunct professor at Gordon. Priscilla pursued advanced study at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. This enables her to prepare teachers of reading using the most recent scientifically based research. She served as a ... more ➔
Janet Arndt
Director of the Graduate Program in Education
Associate Professor of Education
Licensure Officer
Dr. Arndt teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She assists teacher candidates and alumni in obtaining Massachusetts as well as other states' teacher licensure. Dr. Arndt served in the public sector as a teacher, counselor, early childhood specialist, principal and policy maker for ten years as a state representative. Her research interests include transitions, learning needs of students with disabilities, the impact of social ... more ➔
Bryan Auday
Professor of Psychology
Dr. Auday joined the Gordon faculty in 1986. His primary research and teaching interests are in neuroscience and cognitive psychology. In 2001 he started a neuroscience minor that offers an interdisciplinary study in psychology, biology, and kinesiology. He received the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award in 1994 and the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award in 2003 and 2014.
He works with students in Gordon’s Brain Imaging Laboratory ... more ➔
Ellen Ballock
Associate Professor of Education
Ellen Ballock taught elementary school in Florida and at the North Jakarta International School in the country of Indonesia and served as a teacher educator at Towson University in Maryland prior to joining the Gordon College faculty. Her research interests include professional learning communities, collaboration, teacher “noticing” and decision-making, and classroom assessment.
Graeme Bird
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Professor of Classics
Linguistics Program Director
Dr. Bird is a native of New Zealand and has been teaching full-time at Gordon since 2001. His interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, Indo-European linguistics, and early English literature. He is a participant in the Harvard-affiliated Homer Multi-text Project, with a chapter in a book due out in the fall dealing with a celebrated medieval manuscript of Homer's Iliad. He enjoys exploring the connections between ... more ➔
Susan Bobb
Associate Professor of Psychology
Dr. Bobb joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2015, coming from Northwestern University where she had been a Research Associate working on the neural correlates of bilingual language processing and cognitive control. Dr. Bobb’s research program is broadly developmental, using both behavioral methods (e.g., eye-tracking; response times) and neuroscience methods (e.g., EEG) to investigate the process of learning a first or second language ... more ➔
Blair Cochran
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Blair has taught at Gordon since 2001. He has taught Educational Technology at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as methods courses in Physics. Blair currently teaches Integrating Science in the Classroom for the graduate education program. He also teaches a vocational high school Physics course, and is a full-time Physics and Astronomy teacher at Melrose High School. Blair lives in Georgetown with his family.
Julia D'Onofrio
Instructor in Education
Julia D'Onofrio enjoyed teaching in an early childhood classroom for a number of years in the city of Lynn before moving on to work as the Director of Student Services at North Shore Christian School. This position enabled Julia to work with students from Pre-K through Eighth Grade, specifically students with special needs. Julia also has experience as a Reading Specialist, and brings a passion for teaching reading and English Language Lea ... more ➔
Ian Drummond
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Ian has lived and worked on the North Shore since 2002, having originally moved here to attend seminary. He has taught undergraduate history and Latin at Gordon College since 2006, and in the graduate education program since 2012, teaching independent studies in ancient and modern history, as well as photography. Ian is also Associate Director of New Hope Tutorials, Inc., an education non-profit in Boxford that offers full-year coursework to middle- ... more ➔
Melinda Eichhorn
Assistant Professor of Education
Mindy has spent more than six years in India as a special education consultant and inclusion specialist. Prior to working in India, Mindy was a special education teacher in the Hartford Public Schools. Her research interests include math learning disabilities, transition, early intervention in mathematics, teachers' perceptions of mathematics, and the use of professional development to improve math instruction.
Mindy is a partner ... more ➔
Marissa Elliott
Lecturer, The Great Conversation Adjunct Instructor of Secondary Education
Marissa Elliott '05 has been an Adjunct Professor at Gordon College since 2008, having graduated from the school in 2005. She has a Masters degree in English Literature from Salem State University and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College. Marissa is currently co-authoring a book about addiction, recovery and faith with one of the leading professionals in the field. She spends her free time volunteering at her children's school ... more ➔
David Goss
Professor in the Practice of History
Teaching Fields:
Museum Studies, Public History, Early American Maritime and Intellectual
Research Fields:
Museum Studies, New England Puritanism, American Revolution, New England Maritime
Selected Publications:
The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008).
Salem: Cornerstones of a Historic City. (Commonwealth ... more ➔
Michael Hildebrandt
Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning
Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence
Adjunct Faculty in Graduate Education
Michael moved to the North Shore in 2004 to teach at Landmark School and pursue a master’s degree in the area of moderate disabilities and literacy. He taught at Study Skills and Language Arts at Landmark until 2012 and continues to lead workshops and classes for students, parents, and teachers. Michael’s doctoral work allowed him to develop his research and practice in the areas of self-regulated learning and executive function deficits ... more ➔
Mariann Illingworth
Adjunct in Education
Mariann Illingworth brings a wealth of teaching experience to the Gordon College Department of Education. Mariann currently teaches the English as a Second Language courses at Gordon and previously taught at North Shore Community College. She is a teacher of history, French, and ESL at Danvers High School. Her early teaching experience included teaching middle school (social studies, French, and Spanish) at North Shore Christian School in Lynn ... more ➔
Richard Ladd
Lecturer
Richard Ladd joined the Gordon faculty after a long career at Ipswich High School and a brief retirement stint at North Shore Christian School. During his tenure, he encouraged students to learn to speak, read, write and understand Spanish and French; his classes are always different but at the same time very similar; his uncustomary lesson planning works. Richard is a past president of the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association and the American ... more ➔
Karen Langlais
Adjunct in Education
Karen is a curriculum specialist with expertise in Common Core literacy and assessment. Leveraging her 38 years of teaching experience and district leadership skills, she leads workshops for teachers and administrators on Internet-based literacy strategies and present-day assessment tools. In addition to teaching at Gordon College, she is an Instructor at Salem State University’s Collaborative for Teachers. She is also actively involved ... more ➔
Julie Lenocker
Director of Operations and Administration of Graduate Programs
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Kimberly Leonard
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Kimberly Leonard, Class of 1989 (Sociology), is licensed in Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Reading, and English as a Second Language. Kim has been in the field of education for over 20 years. She has experience within all four disciplines and currently serves as Elementary Education Coordinator for Georgetown Public Schools and consults as a reading specialist at Covenant Christian Academy. She has seven years of ... more ➔
Paul Mason
Adjunct Faculty in Graduate Education
Paul has taught for 30 years in public, private, urban, suburban and international schools as well as at the college level. He also spent four years in the country of Haiti training teachers.
Heidi Mongeau
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Heidi Mongeau's passion for teaching and learning has inspired her to teach at various levels in public education. She started her career as a middle school social studies teacher where she taught World History, American History and Civics. After 12 years at the middle school level, she took a new position as a high school teacher. During her four year tenure in this position, Heidi taught various courses including; American History, Youth ... more ➔
Todd Morano
Associate Professor of Education
Todd served in the San Diego Unified School District as an elementary teacher, middle school science and US history classroom teacher, and as a school site administrator. He joined the faculty at Point Loma Nazarene University full-time in 1998 and held the positions of director of literacy development and single- and multiple-subjects coordinators. He earned his doctorate in applied socio-linguistics/TESOL from Alliant International University ... more ➔
Kathleen Mort
Adjunct in Graduate Education and Secondary Education
Kathy has been teaching at Gordon since 2008 and currently serves as the Director of Curriculum and Training with Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission and DELTA Ministries International. For over thirty years Kathy worked in public middle and high schools in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. She has served in various administrative positions including district-wide professional development coordinator, assistant principal ... more ➔
Maria Perez
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Dr. Maria Perez's focus and concentration has been the study of principal leadership and school climate. She is an ardent promoter of 21st Century skills and adheres to a multi-sensory/multi-modal approach to education; one which includes social entrepreneurship, social-emotional well-being, arts integration, music, movement, innovation, collaboration, and creativity. Maria currently teaches Human Growth and Development graduate courses at ... more ➔
Pilar Pérez Serrano
Associate Professor of Spanish
Dr. Pérez Serrano is from Córdoba, Spain, and joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2002. She studied English and Spanish Literature at Gordon College and Brandeis University and she received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Boston College. Her interests include 20th and 21st Century Spanish theater, novel and film as well as literary theory and cultural studies.
She has published articles and book reviews in various ... more ➔
Elissa Rader
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Elissa Arndt Rader, Ph.D. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist and reading specialist with experience providing instruction and intervention in language and literacy to students Prek-8th grade in Massachusetts. She received her bachelor’s degree from Gordon College, her master’s degree from MGH Institute of Health Professions and her doctorate degree in Reading and Language Arts from Florida State University. Elissa has worked ... more ➔
Mary Riso
Adjunct in Graduate Education
Program Coordinator for Education
Mary Riso is the Program Administrator for the Division of Education and teaches theology in the undergraduate Department of Biblical Studies and a variety of newly developed writing courses in the Graduate Education program. She is the author of The Narrative of the Good Death: The Evangelical Deathbed in Victorian England (Routledge, 2015) and Heroines: Great Literary Characters and What They Have to Teach Us (Wipf ... more ➔
Donna Robinson
Associate Professor of Education
Donna (Vincent) Robinson, Class of ’70, returned to Gordon with 16 years teaching experience and a passion for promoting middle and secondary level reading that includes applicable literacy skills, an emphasis on complex text and a commitment to critical thinking. In the years she has taught at Gordon her research and academic interests have centered on interactive teaching strategies and dialogic discourse that engenders retention of information ... more ➔
Oleksiy Svitelskiy
Associate Professor of Physics
A condensed matter physicist by training, Dr. Svitelskiy's research includes the propagation of acoustic waves through ferroelectric materials, as well as optical interferometry using NEMS sensors for mass spectrometry. He has also studied the elastic constant of materials in high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
A native of Ukraine, Professor Svitelskiy speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and English. He enjoys fishing in ... more ➔
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