Faculty


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Dr. Janet Brougher

Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Administration

E 502 Boone
AD Box 25
AD Box 25
Spokane , WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-3654
Fax: 509-313-3482

Office Location
RC 140

Dr. Janet Brougher is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership and Administration and currently the chair of the department.  She teaches graduate courses in the Art and Science of Teaching, Action Research, Assessment, and Leadership and Inquiry.

 
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Dr. Lawana Embrey

Instructor

714 East Boone
Rosauer Center for Education
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 313-3477

Office Location
RC 136

 
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Dr. Albert Fein

Associate Professor and Program Director of the Master of Arts in Leadership and Administration (site-based)

Gonzaga University
Department of Leadership and Administration
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 3651
Fax: 509 313 5485

Office Location
RC 150

Office Hours
I will be on sabbatical for the 2008/2009 academic year.  I will not be keeping regular office hours during sabbatical, but will check my e-mail and voice messages from time to time.

Associate Professor, Department of Leadership and Administration School of Education September 2004: Promoted to Associate Professor September 2001: Appointed to Tenure Track September 1998: Appointed as Assistant Professor 1988-1998: K-12 Administrator Spokane School District #81 Monroe School District #103 Snohomish School District #201 1964-1988: K-12 Teacher Edmonds School District #15

 
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Suzann Girtz

Instructor

714 East Boone
Rosauer Center for Education
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 313-3400

Office Location
RC 122

 
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Dr. Cynthia Johnson

Instructor

714 E Boone Ave
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258-0025

Phone: (509) 313-3650

Office Location
RC 118

Cynthia Johnson has been involved in education since 1994 with seven years of experience as a school administrator for both elementary and intermediate schools, achieving recent recognition as one of five finalists for the 2007 Texas Principal of the Year. She received her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership with a cognate focus on the role of Superintendent in Schools from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. She has two masters degrees, one in School Administration and the other in Special Education. She also holds state certifications in Elementary Education, Special Education, Biology, School Administrator, and Superintendent. She has also contributed to the development of future school administrators through Partners for Educational Leadership at the service center in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her areas of interest in education have been creating effective teaching teams, building school morale and working with special needs students, at-risk students and their families.

 
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Dan Mahoney

Professor and University Program Director of Master of Anesthesiology Education

502 East Boone Avenue
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-3584
Fax: (509) 313-3482

Office Location
Rosauer Center, Room 128

Office Hours
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

My career at Gonzaga started in 1991 when I taught as an adjunct professor. I have taught full time here since 1992.

I currently present courses in two programs: The Master of Arts in Leadership and Administration, and the Master of Anesthesiology Education. Please look at the links on my website to learn more about these programs.

The main courses I teach are ethics, research, leadership, teaching strategies, educational evaluation, and curricular design.

My primary area of research is the practical and professional ethics of teachers and administrators. This research evolved into designing and teaching courses in ethics for the Department of Leadership and Administration, and it has evolved into two books.

One of the books, Ethics and the School Administrator: Balancing Today's Complex Issues, published in 2006, has been adopted in several colleges and universities as a text for administration and leadership programs. This book helps administrators understand and more effectively deal with the ethical compromises that arise from the complex organizational and interpersonal demands of their leadership roles.

The other book, Ethics in the Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, was published in 2008. This book, too, has been adopted in several colleges and universities as a text for teacher training programs and master's degree programs. This book helps show educators how they might choose among ethical approaches to decision-making as they face the difficult choices they make every day.

Another recent publication is Overload and Collapse in the K-12 System, an edited book my colleague, Al Fein, and I wrote and published in 2008. That collaboration was designed to help get the profound messages of our Canadian students' research findings into the hands of educators and policy makers.

My first book, An Organizational, Social Psychological, and Ethical Analysis of School Administrators' use of Deception, was published in 2003. This book examines the role of organizational dynamics in shaping ethically compromising situations.

Whether teaching in the Master of Anesthesiology Education program or the Master of Arts in Leadership and Administration program, I feel truly blessed to be with my colleagues here at Gonzaga as we focus on our most important work - which is to help nurse anesthetists, teachers, school administrators, and other educators transform their professional practice in order to improve the lives of others.

 
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Sharon Reyes
Assistant Professor

502 E Boone Ave
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-3509
Fax: 509-313-3482

Office Location
RC 138

Office Hours
Tuesday, 9am - noon
Wednesday, 9am - noon

 
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Dr. Chuck Salina

Assistant Professor and Program Director of the Master of Arts in Leadership and Administration (Washington)

714 East Boone
Rosauer Center for Education
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 313-3643

Office Location
RC 126

 
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Jerri Shepard

Associate Professor, School of Education

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 25
Spokane, WA 99258-0025

Phone: (509) 313-3471
Fax: (509) 313-3472

Office Location
Rosauer 226

Office Hours
Tuesday, 2-5 Thursday 3-4 & by appointment

Dr. Shepard is the director of the Master of Arts in Teaching: Teaching At Risk Students, which provides graduate programs in Eastern Washington, Alberta, and British Columbia, Canada. She is also the director of Gonzaga University's Institute for Action Against Hate.