The mission of the School of Education is to prepare socially responsive and discerning practitioners to serve their community and profession.

• We model and promote leadership, scholarship and professional competence in multiple specializations.
• We support an environment that is challenging, inclusive, reflective, and collegial.
• We foster inquiry, intellectual creativity, and evidence-based decision-making to accept the challenges facing a global society.
• We provide academic excellence in teaching, advising, service, and scholarship.
• We promote, support, and respect diversity.

The School of Education upholds the tradition of Humanistic, Catholic, and Jesuit Education.

The mission has been summarized in the theme: "Socially responsible professionals who serve with care, competence, and commitment."

The Rosauer Center was built in 1993 by a gift from Jessie Rosauer. This building provides up to 18 classrooms; 3 of which have dividers to accommodate classes with small numbers. Classrooms are equipped with overhead projectors, VCR's, cable television and whiteboards. There are six classrooms that were converted to media presentation classrooms equipped with a computer, VCR, DVD player, LCD projector, and a document camera for projecting documents.

As the School of Education is home to five departments, spaces exist in the Rosauer Center that are specialized for the practical application of skills. The Department of Counselor Education has two rooms for videotaping counseling sessions. The Department of Special Education has space dedicated as an early childhood center for preschool children with special needs. That same space is shared by The Gonzaga Center for Applied Behavior Analysis, PLLC. This space has been wired for sound so the room can be observed; the observation room and preschool are fitted with a one-way mirror.

The School of Education pioneered a wireless laptop initiative and has wireless laptop stations for bringing technology into all classrooms.  These stations allow faculty to demonstrate technology in the classroom as well as provide for interaction online.  Wireless internet access is available to anyone in the building on the "Gonzaga Community" Wireless Network.  As of Spring 2008, the entire Rosauer building wired network is now operating at 100Mb/sec, with the computer lab operating at a speed of 1Gb/sec.

The Technology Resource Center is the hub of instructional technology at the Rosauer Center for Education.  In addition to offering the hardware and software our professional candidates require, we provide them with basic training and technical support.  The TRC is staffed and open for 12 hours on most days, and for extended hours during crunch times.  The computer lab can be used as a single classroom or partitioned in to two smaller classrooms.  Both sides of the lab have full multimedia capabilities (computer, projector, document camera) and the lab contains one ActiveBoard system complete with ActiveVote components.

The computer lab contains twenty-four 24" iMac computers running both OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Windows XP.  The OS X install includes the entire Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection and Microsoft Office 2004, while the Windows XP install includes Microsoft Office 2003.  Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows will make their way onto the computers by Summer of 2008.

Faculty

Counselor Education

Elisabeth Bennett, Ph.D., University of Utah: Philosophy in Counseling Psychology; Program Director of the Community Counseling program; Licensed psychologist.
Mary Brown, M.Ed., Gonzaga University: Counselor Education; Program Director of School Counseling; Specializes in school counseling, education, and supervision.
Steve Koffman, Ph.D., Ball State University: Counseling Psychology; Research in geropsychology, emotional intelligence and trauma response; Director, Master of Counselling--site based Canada.
Paul Hastings, Ph.D., Washington State University: Counselor Education; Specializes in marriage and family counseling and cognitive behavior therapy.

Educational Leadership and Administration

Robert Bialozor, Ed.D., Northern Illinois University: Educational Leadership and Administration; Specializes in leadership theory and organizational change.
Janet Brougher, Ph.D., Gonzaga University; Specializes in psychology of learning and research.
Al Fein, Ph.D., Gonzaga University: Program Director of the M.A. in Leadership and Administration, site-based (Canada); Specializes in educational administration and leadership.
Dennis Conners, Ed.D., University of Houston: Specializes in leadership.
Suzann Girtz, MIT, Whitworth College; Specializes in Educational Evaluation and Research.
Lu Embrey, M.Ed. Educational Administration, Specializing in K-12 Educational Leadership.
Dan Mahoney, Ph.D., Gonzaga University: Educational Ethics and Program Director of the Master of Anesthesiology Education. Chuck Salina, Ph.D., Gonzaga University: Program Director of M.A. Leadership and Administration, Washington site-based and; Program Director M.A. Educational Administration.
Jerri Shepard, Ed.D., University of San Francisco: Specializes in Teaching At-Risk Students.



Special Education

Anjali Barretto, Ph.D., University of Iowa: Specializes in functional analysis and treatment of aberrant behavior and feeding disorders.
Mark Derby, Ph.D., University of Iowa: Specializes in assessment, severe behavior problems, developmentally disabled, and functional analysis.
Tim McLaughlin, Ph.D., University of Kansas: Specializes in precision teaching, behavior disorders, the ADHD child, and special education research.
Kimberly Weber, Ph.D., Ohio State University: Specializes in classroom management, direct instruction strategies, at-risk students, and verbal behavior and development.
Randy Williams, Ph.D., University of Kansas: Specializes in applied behavior analysis, autism, mental retardation, direct instruction math, and classroom management.



Sport and Physical Education

Jon Sunderland, Ph.D., University of Oregon: Sport and Physical Education; Specializes in Sport Psychology, sport management, administration, and secondary teaching of physical education.
Diane Tunnell, Ed.D., Oklahoma State University: Physical Education; Specializes in health education, physical education, and administration.
Boyd Foster, Ph.D., Arizona State University: Physical Education; Specializes in body composition, physical activity, and diet; health and nutrition education; obesity and metabolism.
Jeff Reed, Ph.D., Gonzaga University: Educational Leadership; Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport & Physical Education; Specializes in early childhood activity.
Karen Rickel, Ph.D., University of Idaho: Education; Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport & Physical Ecucation; Specializes in health and wellness.
Roger Park, Ph.D.,  University of Northern Colorado; Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport & Physical Education; Specializes in sport management.



Teacher Education 

Deona Behrens, M.Ed., Lesley College: Director of Field Experience; WSU Certification in administration, endorsed in Spanish.
Jonas Cox, Ph.D., University of Iowa: Teacher Education; Specializes in learning theories and development of logical thought in children and logical thought processes that underlie mathematical and scientific concepts; grant writing.
Deborah Booth, Ph.D., University of Missouri: Teacher Education; Program Director of the Master of Initial Teaching Program; Specializes in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and literacy.
Cathy Dieter, M.Ed., Gonzaga University: Director of Certification; endorsed in Elementary Education, Special Education.
Susan Fischer, M.Ed., Whitworth University: Science concepts and methods, and math methods.
Jennifer Nelson, Ed.D., Washington State University: Teaching and Learning; Specializes in social studies, methods and teaching strategies.
Sharon Straub, M.Ed., Whitworth University: Education; Director of Professional Certification; Endorsed in English and Music.
John Traynor, Jr., Ph.D., Washington State University: Specializes in foundation of education, service learning and classroom management.
Foster Walsh, Ph.D., Washington State University: Director of National Certification Program: Nationally Certified Teacher; Specializes in secondary level instructional strategies, teaching language arts in secondary schools, classroom management and research methods.
Lee Ward, M.A., Gonzaga University: Assistant Director of Field Experience; elementary staff development.

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