Key Experience

Learning Research Analyst | Project Manager

Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy (Evanston, IL)

2011 to Present

K-12 Schools Teacher (Part Time)

Wilmette (IL) School District 39, Evanston Township (IL) High School District 202

2017 to Present

Coordinator & Learning Researcher, NSF BeeSpace Project

U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2004 to 2009

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PhD, Educational Psychology (2011)

Ohio University

Master of Arts, TESL and Applied Linguistics

Antioch College

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Additional ESL Instruction Experience

Computer Systems Institute, Skokie, IL - 2016 to 2017

Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata City, Japan - 1994 to 1997

Ohio University, Athens, OH - 2 years

Chinese universities (Guangzhou and Mianyang) - 2 years

Japanese commercial ESL schools (Tokyo and Kyoto) - 2 years

Hungarian high school (Debrecen) - 1 year

Additional Curricular Research and Evaluation

TOEFL Exam Rater, Educational Testing Service (remote) - 2016 to present

Multiple-year professional assistantships at U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, including:

National Science Foundation G-K12 Partnerships

ISBE Math English Technology Education Research (METER) Project

M.Ed. Program in Curriculum, Technology and Educational Resources (CTER)

Skills and Competencies

Certified substitute teacher in Illinois K-to-12 public schools.

Cross-cultural and international experience gained as teacher of English for academic purposes.

Experience planning, preparing and administering grant-funded projects at all project stages.

Web development skills with HTML5, JavaScript, WordPress, Dreamweaver.

Online and hybrid teaching and student assessment experience with D2L and other courseware systems.

Computer skills in:

Multiple operating systems (Mac OS, Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Android, IOS).

Software for statistics (SPSS, R), office productivity (MS Office suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint; Adobe Acrobat) and relational database management (Filemaker, MySQL, Access).

Hardware/software upgrading/troubleshooting.

Website and video editing software.

Extensive experience with design, support, and assessment of curricular technologies; conduct of workshops for teachers and learners; software tutorial preparation.

CompTIA Project+ Certification in Project Management. CompTIA A+ Certification in Information Technology.

Johns Hopkins University certificates of online course completion in R Programming and Data Scientist's Toolbox.

Published and Presented Works

Buell, J., Lee, C.D., et al. (2015, April). High school students as social justice researchers, connecting praxis and theory: A new generation emerging. Structured poster session. AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago. (Session chair.)

Buell, J. (2011, April). Connecting young learners with the world of emerging science: A design-oriented case study. Session Paper. Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association, New Orleans.

Buell, J., Stone, D., Naeger, N., Fahrbach, S., Bruce, C., & Schatz, B. (2009, February). Experiencing BeeSpace: Educational explorations in behavioral genomics for high school and beyond. Poster. Annual Meeting of American Association for Advancement of Science, Chicago.

Buell, J. (2004, March). Learning to teach with laptops: A case study of teacher change. Session Paper. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education Intl. Conf. Annual (Atlanta), pp. 1984- 1985.

Buell, J., Harnisch, D., Bruce, B., Comstock, S., & Braatz, R. (2004, March). New tools supporting new partnerships: Technology development within the NSF GK-12. Session Paper. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education Intl. Conf. Annual (Atlanta), pp. 4614-4618.

Buell, J. (2002, June). Interacting with Interactive Papers: A situated evaluation of a computer-supported collaboration tool. Paper. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Denver), pp. 208-209.

Buell, J., Levin, J., & Levin, S. (1999). TEbase: Connecting preservice teachers and technologies via web-enabled databases. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Intl. Conf. Annual, Vol. 1999(1), pp. 1865-1870.

Lee, C.D. (2013, April). Identity and literacy intersections in an ecologically and culturally focused urban school intervention. Session paper. AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. (Contributing researcher.)

Levin, S., & Buell, J. (1999). Merging technology into teacher education: Technology tools and faculty collaboration. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 16(1), 7-14.

Levin, S., Levin, J., Buell, J., & Waddoups, G. (2002). Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform (CTER Online): Evaluation of an online master of education program. Tech Trends, 46 (3).

Levin, S., Waddoups, G., Levin, J., & Buell, J. (2001). Highly interactive and effective online learning environments for teacher professional development. International Journal of Educational Technology, 2, 2.

Levin, S., Buell, J., & Levin, J. (2000). The TEbase initiative: Research, development and evaluation for educational reform. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 16(3), 6-11. (Winner of the 1999 SIG-TE Research Award; presented at NECC '99, Atlantic City).

Stone, D., Buell, J., & Naeger, N. (2011, February). Idea Bank: Electronic BeeSpace, Science Teacher (National Science Teachers of America journal).

Stone, D., Buell, J., & Schatz, B. (2010, August). Electronic BeeSpace: A video curriculum for teaching genomic research about arthropods to high school students. Invertebrates in Education and Conservation Conference, Tucson.