Researchers
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Guy Trainin
Principal Investigator
BiographyGuy Trainin
Principal Investigator
Guy Trainin, Ph.D. (PI), is a professor and chair at the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He focuses his research on art, literacy and technology integration. He has published articles, books and digitally. Dr. Trainin has served as a PI and co-PI on many grants and contracts, with total funding awarded of over $19 million. He has also served as an evaluator and PI on Arts Education grants, including three Arts Education Model Development and Dissemination grants. Dr. Trainin serves as the principal investigator responsible for research and project implementation. He oversees the recruitment, data collection, advisory board, curriculum and assessment writing, and writing reports and publications.
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Kimberley D’Adamo
Co-Principal Investigator
BiographyKimberley D’Adamo
Co-Principal Investigator
Kimberley D’Adamo, Ed.D. (Co-PI) is an artist and a lecturer at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She builds teams of innovative educators who see teaching as an artform. She believes that transforming institutions of learning into creative, humanized, student-driven spaces requires collaborations across professions, ages, contexts disciplines and mediums. Ultimately, her goal is to build new approaches to how we define and navigate "school" in America. Her role in the Art TEAMs project includes teaching, leading curriculum design, coordinating instruction and supporting teacher-researchers in implementation of art centered, student-driven, transdisciplinary learning in K-12 classrooms across Nebraska.
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HyeonJin Yoon
Co-Principal Investigator
BiographyHyeonJin Yoon
Co-Principal Investigator
HyeonJin Yoon, Ph.D. (co-PI), is a research assistant professor at the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics. She has significant methodological experience and statistical expertise in program evaluation, especially with experimental and quasi-experimental designs and analyses of interventions for children and youth, as well as measurement and assessment of learning. Yoon is currently serving as an external evaluator and methodologist on two Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration-funded grants on large-scale mental health initiatives. She has also published methodological and applied work resulting from IES and NSF grants in highly regarded journals. Yoon will be responsible for the study's evaluation, quantitative and qualitative data analyses, and participation in writing reports and publications.
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Gretchen Larsen
Curriculum Designer
BiographyGretchen Larsen
Curriculum Designer
Gretchen is a sculptor, installation designer and educational researcher. She works with traditional and new media, including electronics, woodworking, digital fabrication methods, projection design and creative code. Gretchen is a doctoral candidate in Teaching and Learning with Innovative Technologies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she teaches Creative Code and Sculpture. She researches pedagogies of creative coding and designs learning experiences where students have space to become personally involved with emerging media tools. She is a two-time recipient of the UNL Chancellor Scholarship and was recently awarded the Everett Fellowship and Howard Creative Activity Grant. Gretchen is originally from Lincoln, where she attended the Arts & Humanities Focus program.
Not Pictured PI Cohort 1: Lorinda Rice
Project Personnel
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Sarah Trainin
Project Coordinator
CPEH 062
Biography
Lincoln, NE 68588
sarah.trainin@unl.eduSarah Trainin
Project Coordinator
CPEH 062
Lincoln, NE 68588
sarah.trainin@unl.edu
Sarah Trainin supports the Teaching with Arts and Emerging Media (Art TEAMS) project by working collaboratively with team members to integrate art into Nebraska public schools’ K-12 curricula. Sarah earned a master’s degree from California State University, San Bernardino, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, both in English language and literature. She previously worked as an adjunct professor at Southeast Community College and Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. Sarah is a dual citizen (USA/Israel) and bilingual.
Graduate Research Assistants
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Azadeh Hassani
BiographyAzadeh Hassani
Azadeh Hassani is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializing in Innovative Learning Technologies. With a research and publication background in teaching English as a foreign language and software engineering, she is passionate about investigating quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and integrating technology into education. Currently, Azadeh serves as a graduate research assistant on the Art TEAMs project. Her responsibilities encompass data collection, both quantitative and qualitative data analyses, as well as contributing to publication writing efforts.
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Zohreh Tamimdari
BiographyZohreh Tamimdari
Zohreh Tamimdari taught Persian Literature in middle school and college for several years. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Studies (teaching, learning and curriculum) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research focuses on multicultural education, and English as a Second Language.
Not Pictured GRAs Cohort 1: Maggie Bertsche; Carrie Bohmer; Mac Kelsey
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board includes an art teacher, a general classroom teacher, a museum educator, a teaching artist, a school administrator and four Arts Education scholars.
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Diana Cornejo-Sanchez
BiographyDiana Cornejo-Sanchez
Diana Cornejo-Sanchez is the director of High Tech High Teacher Center (San Diego, California), leading the teacher PD and teacher program design. Cornejo-Sanchez started her career as a high school humanities teacher and was one of High Tech High Media Arts' founding teachers, where she taught and mentored new teachers for more than 10 years. She has supported large urban schools in strategic thinking to bring about systemic change in providing students with active interdisciplinary learning experiences.
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Megan Elliott
BiographyMegan Elliott
Megan Elliott is the founding director of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. She previously served as manager of leadership and community connections at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and former Director and CEO of digital media think-tank X Media Lab.
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Jorge Lucero
BiographyJorge Lucero
Jorge Lucero is an artist, assistant professor and chair of Art Education at the University of Illinois School of Art & Design. Prior to his work in higher education, he taught art and art history for Chicago Public Schools. Lucero has researched and written extensively about conceptual art and contemporary art practices.
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Cody Talarico
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Anne Moser Thulson
BiographyAnne Moser Thulson
Anne Moser Thulson is a professor in art education and art at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research includes contemporary art pedagogy, Reggio Emilia documentation, art integration and the intersection between children’s picture books and contemporary art. Using her 25 years’ experience teaching contemporary art practices to children in Denver Public Schools, Expeditionary Learning, and School of the Poetic City, she presents and facilitates professional development for art teachers.
She holds a National Board Teacher Certification in Early and Middle Childhood Art, an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BA in Art from Wheaton College. She lives in Denver with her husband, co-creator of the School of the Poetic City, an urban art camp for children. Writers, artists, nature, cities, friends and her three grown children continue to change her mind.
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