Department of Middle, Secondary & K-12 Education (MDSK)

Brittany Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education. Anderson is a community-engaged scholar who facilitates university-school-community partnerships to illuminate and address the needs of students, teachers, and families in urban schools. In cooperation with the local Charlotte community and schools nationwide, Anderson is committed to […]

Bettie Ray Butler, PhD is a Professor of Urban Education and the Director of the M.Ed. in Urban Education program at UNC Charlotte. She also serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education (JAAWGE). Dr. Butler completed her Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in 2011. Her research explores […]

Heather Coffey is Professor of English Language Education in the Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education and serves as the Director of the UNC Charlotte Writing Project and program director for the M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction. She completed her Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2009. Her research interests include ways to develop critical […]

Hilary Dack is an Associate Professor in the department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education and serves as program director for the B.A. in Middle Grades Education. Her areas of specialization are differentiated instruction and effective instructional decision-making in K-12 general education classrooms. Dack teaches courses on the science of learning, middle grades education, instructional […]

Kristin J. Davin is Professor of Foreign Language Education in the department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education. She serves as program director for the Graduate Certificate and M.A.T. in Foreign Language Education, as well as the Minor in Foreign Language Education. Davin completed her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. She teaches […]

Warren J. DiBiase is an associate professor of science education. His teaching responsibilities involve the preparation of middle/secondary science teachers at the graduate and undergraduate level. DiBiase is a past chair of the department. His other responsibilities include teaching an undergraduate course in Science, Technology and Society and a graduate level course in secondary education; […]

Autumn Griffin is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education at UNC Charlotte. Griffin did her undergraduate work at Penn State, double majoring in English and African and African-American Studies. She then completed an M.Ed. at University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education before pursuing her doctoral […]

Susan B. Harden is an Associate Professor of Education at UNC Charlotte. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 2001. Harden’s teaching, research, and service expertise is in understanding community engagement at cultural institutions and developing engaged scholarship in higher education. She received the Leadership Charlotte 2017 Legacy Awards, Unsung […]

Tina Heafner is Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her administrative responsibilities include directing the Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. Heafner is the 2020-2021 Past-President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and was the 2015-2016 Chair […]

Charles B. Hutchison was born in Ghana and currently teaches at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. With formal education in the sciences and theology and having lived in Africa, Europe, and the U.S., he has worked as a molecular immunologist and as an educator in several educational contexts. He is the author of […]