Geoff Broadhead

Area: TLC

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Dr. Broadhead's academic and professional qualifications, and school and university experience is in England, Scotland, and the United States. Originally a teacher of remedial English and physical education of at-risk children, Dr. Broadhead's research activities have centered upon the motor characteristics of individuals with disabilities; the interrelationships among movement and non-movement skills in young children; the efficacy of school physical education; and in the special education advocacy area now called inclusion. Books and papers resulting from a range of externally and university-funded projects on these research themes have been published in peer-reviewed journals. He founded and was, for eight years, Editor of the Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, the pre-eminent scholarly journal in the adapted physical education field. Dr. Broadhead has coordinated Special Education and Physical Education programs and has been an Academic Dean. He advocates for student rights and committee involvement; understands faculty and staff responsibilities; is comfortable with the interrelated issues of diversity and affirmative action; and enjoys multi-disciplinary, unit, and university matters. He is happily married to a professional dance choreographer/teacher/Studio owner, whose performing company specializes in social commentary dance-works on themes such as 9/11, adoption, drugs, women in the Civil War, the Holocaust, and the Louisiana Plight. Dr. Broadhead has a grown daughter, who just survived Katrina, and a fifteen year-old son, who is an authentic Civil War Living Historian.

Connie Collier

Area: TLC

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Connie Collier is an associate professor in the School of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University. She joined the faculty at Kent State University in 1997, having previously taught three years at Miami University and nine years in public schools in Ohio. She received her BS from Defiance College and her MA and PhD from The Ohio State University. Her scholarship focuses on teacher learning and innovative curricula in physical education.

Jennifer Fisette

Area: TLC

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Jennifer Fisette is a first year Assistant Professor in the School of Exercise, Leisure, and Sport. She received her undergraduate degree in physical education from Rhode Island College, master's degree in sport pedagogy at Ithaca College, and doctoral degree in physical education teacher education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to her graduate work, she taught physical education and health for three years in the Middletown Public School System located in Rhode Island. Her current research interests explore the complexities of students' experiences with physical activity and physical education through student voice and activist initiatives.

Stephen Mitchell

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I am in my 18th year at Kent State, having done Doctoral work in Teaching and Curriculum at Syracuse University, and Masters and Bachelors degrees in Physical Education and Education at Loughborough University, England. With colleagues Judy Oslin and Linda Griffin, I have authored numerous articles and book chapters related to tactical games teaching, my major area of academic interest. We have co-authored three textbooks related to games teaching within public school physical education, including Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach, now into its second edition (having also been translated into Japanese and soon into Korean). I am also currently collaborating with faculty in health education, nutrition, and communication on a project to combat childhood obesity through appropriate diet and exercise programming. I have been heavily involved with NCATE accreditation over the past ten years, serving as a program report reviewer and as the Program Report Coordinator for our SPA, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. I am currently on the NCATE Board of examiners.

Jennifer Schultz

Area: FLA , SPAD, RPTM