Candy
Beal, Ed. D.
Candy Beal is
an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Middle
Grades Language Arts and Social Studies Teacher Education Program
at North Carolina State University.
Beal holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, Duke University
and North Carolina State University. As an educator for 34 years,
her research interests have included theories of adolescent development,
curriculum development and curriculum integration and global studies.
Beal has received several university awards for her teaching and outreach/extension
and has led several research studies that examined the value of using
curriculum integration as a teaching and learning approach in a technology
enhanced environment. Her work and the work of her colleagues and
students can be seen at the following websites:
Dr. Beal can be
reached at candy_beal@ncsu.edu
for any comments regarding the site or the project.
Pat Dalton
Pat Dalton is
currently an Instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction
at NC State University. She received
her bachelor’s degree in English from Wake Forest University.
She also holds a Masters of Divinity Degree. Pat has taught in the
public schools of North and South Carolina for 14 years and served
as head of the Carolina Friends Middle
School in Durham, NC, for 17 years. She believes that the core
of all good teaching is establishing relationships with students,
and she continues to practice that philosophy at NC State where she
is enjoying the opportunity to teach future teachers. Pat also integrates
technology into her classroom through course websites that are housed
on her domain, http://www.prsdalton.com.
Pat can be reached
at prsdalton@netscape.net.
Matthew
Ross
Matthew Ross is
a Teaching
Fellow at North Carolina State University.
He is a junior in the Middle Grades Language Arts & Social Studies
program. Matthew participated as a researcher/traveler in Dr. Beal's
North Carolina’s 6th Grade Goes to Russia Project. He just completed
Project MIRROR: Moral Inquiry through Reflection, Respect, Obligation,
and Responsibility (a grant funded by The Kenan Institute for Ethics),
in which he and a fellow undergraduate developed a curriculum to create
an ideal atmosphere for the teaching and learning of moral courage
and civic responsibility within a technologically-enabled environment.
Matthew has also developed many websites in conjunction with various
professors at NC State University, including Dr. Beal and Pat Dalton.
These sites are linked below.
Matthew can be
reached at mjross@ncsu.edu for
any questions, comments, or concerns regarding the site.
Cindy
Privette
Cynthia Privette,
Outreach Coordinator at Centennial
Campus Middle School, has been with the Wake
County Public School System for 23 years. During that time she
served in various capacities including teaching fifth, sixth, seventh,
and eighth grade. Part of her experience includes the organization
and coordination of a program for at-risk adolescents at Zebulon Middle
School. This experience led her to a position as Program Director
for Communities In Schools of Wake County before taking on the role
of Outreach Coordinator at Centennial Campus Middle School. Her educational experience led her
to Peace College with associate degrees in liberal arts and accounting.
She continued her education at Atlantic Christian College and later
received her Masters In Education from East Carolina University. Her
educational interests presently include areas of curriculum and instruction,
collaboration in school environments and how it relates to student
success, and the benefit of partnerships within schools. She has presented
on various topics at the National Middle School Conference and the
Magnet Schools of America Conference, and the Conference for At-Risk
Youth.
Mrs. Privette
can be reached at cprivette@wcpss.net
for any comments regarding CCMS or the project.
