Curricula Vitae in BFT Education

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Melissa Baker Clinical Assistant Professor		Melissa A. Baker is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Middle Level Education, focusing on English Language Arts at the University of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Susquehanna University and attained her Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Tampa. Melissa went on to earn her Ph.D. in Middle Grades Education from the University of Georgia.
Dr. Elizabeth Jeanne Hammond, PhD Associate Professor	Educational Pyschology	Elizabeth H. Brinkerhoff is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort (Hilton Head Gateway campus). After many years of teaching at the elementary level, Dr. Brinkerhoff has become a teacher of teachers which has been a major goal for the past eight years. Her hope is to positively impact P-12 students' learning through the preservice teachers that she helps to prepare and her continued research.
Elizabeth Lee Johnson Associate Professor	use of math manipulatives for teaching mathematical concepts to elementary and early childhood learn	Elizabeth L. Johnson, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Elementary Education Program in the Department of Education at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Her research focuses on the use of math manipulatives for teaching mathematical concepts to elementary and early childhood learners.
Bruce Marlowe, PhD Department Chair/Professor		Bruce Marlowe, PhD is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Education and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Over the course of a 40-year career in education, he has worked as a high school English teacher, a special education teacher and a special Education consultant. He has served as an interim university dean, a coordinator of graduate education, and a Professor of Special Education and Educational Psychology.
Dr. Renarta Tompkins Associate Professor	improving literacy for minority students, fluency, culturally relevant literacy practices, history of reading in African American schools	Dr. Tompkins' interest is in working with school districts to evaluate and improve reading achievement of students in K-8 classrooms.