Accomplishments: Department of Teaching and Learning

Hasan Deniz (Teaching and Learning) received the 2024-2025 Nevada STEM Advocate of the Year Award. The award recipient is selected by the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology (OSIT) and the Regional STEM Networks to increase awareness of high-quality STEM education in Nevada. Annually, each Regional STEM Network in…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored a textbook, Instructional Strategies for Career and Technical Educators, published  by the Association for Career and Technical Education.
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article "Responding to Change," in the Techniques, the flagship journal for Career and Technical Education.
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored a textbook, Curriculum Development & Design in Career & Technical Education, which was published by the Association for Career and Technical Education.
Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual (Structural) Colorectal Cancer…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently co-authored a textbook, Instructional Strategies for Career and Technical Educators. Published by the Association for Career and Technical Education.
Associate professor of mathematics education Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) gave the opening keynote, "Who is in the frame?," for the California Math Council North Annual Conference in Asilomar, California, on Dec. 6, 2024. 
Chyllis E. Scott (Teaching and Learning), her doctoral students, Sonja Howard and Katherine Hallford (both Teaching and Learning), and colleagues Mae Lane of Sam Houston State University, Cindy Benge of Eastern New Mexica University, and Montana K. McCormick of Towson University, recently published an article, "Examining Asynchronous Virtual…
Danielle Mireles (Teaching and Learning) and Anna Acha (University of California, Riverside) recently published a co-authored chapter, "From compliance culture to liberatory access: reimagining disabled & deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond," in the Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education: Like a Path in Tall…
Michael McCreery (Interaction and Media Sciences) and Kathleen Krach (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a paper with doctoral students Danielle Head, Joey Fiorentini, Zandy Leung, and Sam Leif (all Interaction and Media Sciences). The paper titled, “Examining player estimates of prior video gaming experience:…
Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) and Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) participated in a panel discussion with colleagues Claytee White (Oral History Research Center) and Norma Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and former students Kenneth Brown II, Laurents Banuelos-Benitez, and Marbella Alfonso, all who…
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published an article "A Love Letter to Women, Femme, and Nonbinary Critical Scholars of Color: Theorizing the Four I’s of Love in SiSTARhood" with her colleagues. Rochelle Gutiérrez and Marrielle Myers in the Qualitative Inquiry journal.