ESOL

Paula DelBonis-Platt

Kelly Moore Dunn

Kelly Moore Dunn joined NHTI’s faculty in 2003. She is the Department Chair of Education, the Director of the Teacher Education Conversion Program and the Center for Educational Excellence. She earned her B.S. from the College of St. Rose, her M.Ed. in Learning and Language Disorders from Notre Dame College, and her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Adult Education, from Nova Southeastern University. She has more than 35 years’ experience as an educator in K-12 schools and college and university. She teaches courses in special education and special education methods and supervises student teachers and practicum students. She serves on the Council for Teacher Education for the State Board of Education. Her professional interests include special education, learning disabilities, cognitive coaching, teacher preparation, cultures of dignity, and adult learning.

Dawn Florino

Dawn is an adjunct faculty member in the Education Department. Dawn is a current middle school principal. Dawn is a certified reading/writing specialist. She has worked with elementary and middle school populations and as a Title coordinator in a NH school district. She teaches courses in reading and literacy in the education department.

Lisa Frenette

Lisa is an adjunct faculty member. Lisa is a special education director in the public-school system in NH and has taught courses in Special Education Assessment and Individual Education Plans and Consultation for NHTI.  She has been a special educator in the NH public school systems.

Yulia Garvanovic, MST

Dawn Higgins

Dawn Higgins is an academic advisor at NHTI and works directly with English Language Learners at NHTI. Instructing and advising second language adults in higher education for 19 years, she is also a certified K-12 ESOL teacher in the State of NH and linguistics instructor for NHTI’s post-bac ESOL Teacher Education Conversion Program. Dawn is the co-director of the ESOL Teacher Education Conversion Program. The populations she serves at NHTI currently are New Americans and other new immigrants’ representative of more than 50 native languages and countries of origin. Dawn earned her undergraduate degree in French and English and her Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of New Hampshire and the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France.

Frank Hoell

Francis W. Hoell, M.Ed. joined the NHTI faculty in 2010. He a supervisor of student teachers and student interns. He earned a B.A. from Saint Anselm College and M.Ed from Lesley University in Special Education and Administration. He has over 44 years of experience as an educator and school administrator. His professional interests include principal mentoring and teacher preparation.

Aaron Hughes

Aaron is an adjunct professor in the Education Department. Aaron is and Educational Consultant for the NH Department of Education in the area of Title III and ELL programming. Aaron teaches courses in cross cultural education for NHTI.

Rosemarie Hughes-Smith

Christa Jeck

Christa is an adjunct professor in the Education Department. Christa is a certified ESOL K-12 educator in the New Hampshire public schools. Christa teaches courses in the Teacher Education Conversion Program for ESOL.

Jeffrey Laflamme

Jeff is an adjunct faculty member in the education department. Jeff is a current Special Educator in the NH public school system specializing in working with students with specific behavioral challenges. Jeff also has additional certification in Emotional and Behavioral disorders. Jeff teaches courses in the education programs in the area of working with students with challenging behaviors.

Christopher Lewis

Chris is an adjunct professor in the Education Department. Chris is a certified NH special educator and teaches students with special needs in the public-school system. Chris teaches special education assessment courses for the Teacher Education Conversion Program.

Cynthia Lucero

Cynthia has been in education since 1998. She has taught in educator preparation at the University of New Hampshire and Saint Anselm College before coming to NHTI. Cynthia is the coordinator of clinical practice for the education department at NHTI and professor of education. In the past, Cynthia was an elementary and middle school teacher and an assistant middle school principal. She loves all aspects of education, but areas of professional interest include mentoring new teachers, supporting students with disabilities, student assessment, and special education. Cynthia earned her B.S and M.Ed from Notre Dame College and is completing her doctoral dissertation through Northeastern University.

Gerald Moylan

Amy Gillam O’Riley

Amy Gillam has been an Adjunct Professor at NHTI since 2008. She teaches the Instructional Technology course which is focuses on learning how to integrate technology into the classroom. She is currently a Computer Technology Educator in the public-school system where she teaches computer technology classes and collaborates with colleagues to facilitate technology integration in the classroom. In the past she has also taught second grade, middle school Spanish, and middle school computer technology. In addition to teaching, she presents at workshops and seminars on current educational technology topics.

Preston (Alan) Pardy

P. Alan Pardy has been an adjunct instructor at NHTI since 2011, teaching ED 201/TECP 61. Alan earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching at the University of New Hampshire. He earned a Doctorate in Education at Boston University, concentrating on special education and educational administration. He has worked in education for over 50 years, as a classroom teacher, director of special education, and, until he retired in 2017, Executive Director of the NH Association of Special Education Administrators, a state-wide organization of public and private special education directors. Alan has also taught courses as an adjunct at Rivier College (University), Granite State College, and Antioch University New England. His professional interests include leadership competencies, inter-agency collaboration, and integrating “soft skills” into K-12 education and teacher training.

Susan K. Peterson

Susan K. Peterson has degrees in Early Childhood Education; Counseling; and Higher Education, Leadership, and Adult Learning. She holds a NH Early Childhood Master Professional from the NH Dept of Health and Human Services. She has taught early childhood education classes in higher education for the past 20 years and is certified by the NH chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) as a professional trainer. She is an adjunct faculty member at Granite State College and NHTI, where she teaches education courses and provides supervision and mentoring to pre-service and new teachers. Dr. Peterson is certified by the Center for Teacher Effectiveness and authorized to conduct “Time to Teach” seminars in Classroom Management. Dr. Peterson is the Director of Riverstone Educational Consultants providing professional development and support in training, coaching, mentoring, and program evaluation to schools and educational organizations.

Robert Rojas

Patricia Severance

Pat is an adjunct faculty member at NHTI and teaches education courses and supervises student teachers and practicum students in the Teacher Education Conversion Program. Pat served in the roles of NH school principal, assistant principal, educator, special educator, and mentor for new teachers.

Anne Wallace

Annie Wallace joined NHTI as a TCEP adjunct faculty member in 2007 as the middle and secondary mathematics methods instructor. She earned her B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1981, her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Gordon College, Wenham, MA in 2005, and a Post-Masters Graduate Certificate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New England, Portland, ME in 2016. She has more than 15 years’ experience as an educator. Currently she is the Mathematics Educational Consultant for the NH Department of education. She has served on Governor Hassan’s NH STEM Education Task Force and as a member of Advisory Group for the NH Quantitative Literacy Project in the development of NH’s Pre-K -16 Numeracy Action Plan for the 21st Century and currently serves as president on the New Hampshire Teachers of Mathematics (NHTM) board and as vice-chair on the Professional Standards Board for the State Board of Education. Her professional interests include equity and access in mathematics for all students, teacher preparation with a focus in mathematics for all levels, math curriculum and assessment, and in the development of math coaching.

Deborah Woelflein

Debbie has been an educator for 35 years, with experience as a high school English teacher, department chair, assistant principal, principal, instructional supervisor and assistant superintendent for curriculum. She is an adjunct faculty member at NHTI, and has taught at Rivier College, and UMass Lowell and has chaired the NH Council for Teacher Education. She enjoys working with new educators to help prepare them to face the realities of today’s classrooms and developed a formal mentoring program for the Merrimack School District. She was honored to serve as the NH Teacher of the Year in 1996. Debbie has a B.A. in English Education from Merrimack College, a M.A. in English from Duquesne University, and a CAGS from Rivier College.

Heather Wood

Heather is an adjunct professor in the Education Department. Before joining NHTI, Heather worked as an elementary reading and writing specialist and special education teacher. She also has experience teaching math and science at the high school and college levels. She earned her BA in Kinesiology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, her MEd as a Reading and Writing Specialist from Plymouth State University, and her Ed.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment from Walden University.  Heather teaches education and math courses at NHTI. Her professional interests include reading and math intervention, assistive technology, and cognitive learning strategies. In her free time, she enjoys outdoor activities in the beautiful lakes and mountains of New Hampshire such as hiking, fishing, snowmobiling, and skiing.