Education Faculty and Staff

Terri Teal Bucci, Ph.D.   
Associate Professor & Director, The OSU Haiti Empowerment Project   
Program Coordinator, Education Department   
(419) 755-4263   
bucci.5@osu.edu   

Dr. Bucci received her doctorate from The Ohio State University's School of Teaching and Learning. She has 14 years of classroom teaching experience in both middle and high school mathematics and is certified to teach in both elementary and secondary schools. She teaches courses in middle and elementary school mathematics methods, integration, middle childhood general pedagogy, technology in education, and Haitian Education. Her research interests include Haitian Teacher Education, Technology in Teacher Education, Cognitively Guided Instruction and Problem Solving.   

Dr. Bucci is heavily involved in Haitian Teacher Education reform, The Algebra Project, and The One Laptop Per Child program.   


 

Donna Farland-Smith, Ed.D.   
Assistant Professor   
(419) 755-8360   
farland-smith.1@osu.edu   

Dr. Farland-Smith earned two B.A. degrees, one in Natural Science and one in Elementary Education from Worcester State College in 1993. Her M.ED, from Fitchburg State College is in Science Education in 1995. She received her Ed. D. in Science and Mathematics Education from The University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 2003. She previously taught high school, middle school, and elementary science and considers it a great honor to be teaching the next generation of teachers. She has written and published books that inspire children to understand and appreciate scientists and their work, Her books include: Jungle Jane, It Takes Two: The Story of the Watson & Crick Team, It Takes All Kinds of Scientists and The Simple Truth about Scientists. Of particular interest to Dr. Farland-Smith is research that focuses on students’ perceptions and attitudes toward science and scientists. In addition she is the founder of The Little Buckeye Children's Museum, an interactive playspace in downtown Mansfield, OH.

Redmond L. Wood   
Education Field Experience Coordinator/Supervisor   
(419) 755-4249   
wood.56@osu.edu   

Red has 27 years of classroom teaching experience in both middle and high school settings, spending the most recent 21 years as history teacher at Spencerville High School (SHS) in Spencerville, Ohio. He has experience as a Formative Instructional Practices (FIP) facilitator and Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA) assessor/lead assessor/master coder, and assisted with the implementation of the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES) and Student Learning Objectives (SLO) review at SHS. Red earned his MS in Instruction and Curriculum from the University of Scranton, and his BS in Education from The Ohio State University.   

Red currently supervises and coordinates field placements and teaches FEEP and Student Teaching courses at Ohio State Mansfield.   
 

Cheryl Logan, M.Ed.   
Lecturer in Teaching and Learning   
(419) 755-4378   
logan.265@osu.edu   

Cheryl currently teaches adolescent literature, children's literature, research writing, and ET&L 4189 to undergraduate students pursuing careers in early and middle childhood education. In addition to her work with pre-service teachers in her local community, Cheryl also works with inservice teachers in South Africa and Haiti. In 2011, Cheryl spent 10 months in Pretoria, South Africa as an English Language Fellow at the University of Pretoria where she taught Academic Literacies to first year pre-service teachers. In addition, Cheryl worked with the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to establish a national professional development network for teachers, The South Africa Writing Project (SAWP). SAWP is an international affiliate of the National Writing Project (NWP) here in the U.S. The aim of the network is to improve student writing and academic achievement by improving teachers' instruction of writing. In September, 2007, Cheryl launched a writing project with teachers in rural schools in Haiti in an effort to create and publish children’s books for the children in the countryside of Haiti.   


 

Allyson Miller   
Lecturer in Teaching and Learning   
Associate Director, Haiti Empowerment Project   
(419) 755-4204   
miller.8771@osu.edu   

Allyson received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood education from Bluffton University in 2007 and had 3 years of classroom teaching experience before returning to school to pursue her Master’s degree at The Ohio State University-Mansfield. She currently teaches courses in Child Development, Language and literacy Methods, and Urban Teaching and Learning. Allyson enjoys coordinating and supervising pre-service teachers as they complete their fieldwork in the surrounding school districts. Additionally, she is the Associate Director of the Haiti Empowerment Project and enjoys collaborating with colleagues on a variety of research projects.   
 

Debe Adams   
Lecturer   
419-755-4001   
adams.2167@osu.edu   

Debe earned a BS and MS in mathematics at Southern Illinois University and a certification in secondary mathematics at Eastern Illinois University. In 2009, she began teaching The Algebra Project pedagogy in the high school classroom and she has continued to work in various capacities with The Algebra Project since that time.   

After teaching math part-time at her local Illinois community college and then full time at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Debe moved to Mansfield, Ohio in 2017 to work with the Math Literacy Initiative (MLI). The MLI provides professional development that is grounded in the pedagogy of The Algebra Project for K-12 in-service math teachers. In addition to the MLI work, Debe teaches college-level math courses including courses for pre-service teachers at The Ohio State University, Mansfield.