Who Are We?
Ellen Rintell, Ed.D., Co-Director of Project NOBELL Secondary, Professor of Education, Co-coordinator of MAT in ESL, Coordinator M.Ed. Bilingual Education
Dr. Rintell has taught at Salem State College for 15 years. She teaches such courses as EDU250A, language and literacy development, and EDU308, Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom. In addition, she has taught a variety of classes in the MAT in ESL program, such as Theories and Principles of ESL, Methods of Teaching ESL, Research in ESL, and Sociolinguistics. She has been PI or Co-PI on previous grant projects, such as Project PET, Project NOBELL and Project LEAD (Literacy Education and Diversity), all of which focused on preparing more highly qualified teachers for English language learners. Dr. Rintell started in this field as an ESL and then a Bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools. Once she received her doctorate, her focus has been on teacher development. She still enjoys teaching ESL, and last summer taught a group of HS students from Taiwan, who had come to the US to learn about American culture and to improve their English.
Dr. Julie Whitlow, Co-Director of Project NOBELL Secondary
Julie Whitlow is a professor in the English Department at Salem State College where she also co-coordinates the Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language. She has taught ESL in Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer and in Portugal and she has done teacher training in Nicaragua as a Fulbright Scholar. Her main research interests are in second language writing and sociolinguistcs. She lives in Salem with her partner and their two daughters.
Dr. Michelle Pierce, Co-Director of Project NOBELL Secondary
Dr. Michelle Pierce is associate professor of education and specializes in the field of language and literacy development. She received her doctorate in Literacy, Language, and Cultural Studies from Boston University, and her research interests include the literacy development of ELLs and the evolution of beginning teachers' beliefs and practices. Fluent in French and Spanish, she is pleased to have had the opportunity to live in France and to visit Spain and the Dominican Republic. In the spring of 2009, Dr. Pierce will travel to Chile as a Fulbright Scholar to train EFL teachers at the Universidad de Tarapaca, Arica.
Liza Bathurst, Project Coordinator
Liza is a graduate of Seattle University and holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in International Studies with a minor in Spanish. She came to Project NOBELL Secondary after spending time as a secondary Spanish teacher and as an account representative with EF Education. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and two young daughters.
