Dr. 罗克珊·格雷茨·米勒

罗克珊·格雷茨·米勒 was named Dean of the Attallah College of Educational Studies in February 2022. She also holds the Donna Ford Attallah Endowed Professorship in Teacher Education (2012-present). Dean Miller's prior university-wide leadership roles include Vice Provost for 研究生教育 (2019-2022), Director of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (IETL, 2015-2018) and President of the 教师 Senate (2013-2014). 在阿塔拉学院, Dean Miller formerly served as Assistant Dean of Undergraduate and Integrated Degree 项目 (2014-2015) as well as Program Coordinator for the Secondary Teacher Education Credential Program and the Master of 艺术 in Teaching Secondary Emphasis Program (2008-2011). 

A member of Chapman's faculty since 2005, Dean Miller holds the rank of tenured full professor with a joint appointment to 施密德科学学院 and 技术. In addition to her teaching at the undergraduate, 大师, 和博士水平, Dean Miller has served as principal or co-principal investigator on state and federal research grants representing more than $4.2 million in funding and has published numerous refereed articles, 书的章节, and comprehensive historical abstracts. Her research centers on teacher professional development, 家到学校的连接, 和STEM教育. She previously served in national leadership roles as the chair-elect/chair of the Small 大学 Special Interest Group of the Professional and Organizational Developers (POD) Network (2017-2021), the Division K Teacher Education Program Co-Chair for the American Educational 研究 Association (AERA) from 2013-2016, and the contributing editor to NSTA’s 科学的范围 中等的成绩 journal from 2005-2009.

In 2008, Dean Miller was honored with Chapman’s Valerie Scudder Award for excellence in teaching, 奖学金, and research and in 2012 was awarded the Attallah Endowed Professorship. In 2014, Dean Miller received the Outstanding Teaching Professorship at Chapman, the university's highest honor in teaching, selected by a jury of tenured professors from across all academic areas at the university. She also represented Chapman in the Carnegie Foundation’s 2014 U.S. 年度最佳教授竞赛.

Despite her administrative responsibilities, research background and scholarly productivity, 迪恩·米勒认为自己, 首先也是最重要的, 成为一名教师. As she emphasizes to her students, "teaching is not what you do; it is who you are." She continues to hold current teaching credentials in biology, 化学, 中等的成绩, and gifted education in the states of Florida and California.

K-12教学经历

Dean Miller was a secondary science teacher at both the middle school and senior high levels for approximately 10 years, with nine of those years spent teaching in Title I schools in the highly diverse Miami-Dade County Public 学校. In addition to her classroom teaching, she coordinated the identification and eligibility for, 和交付, special education and gifted education services to over 400 students each year in a highly diverse, large urban middle school in Miami.

In 2011-2012, Dean Miller went "back to middle school" for the full academic year as a Professor-in-Residence in a California middle school while on sabbatical, 支持学校的学生, 老师, 和管理员. She currently serves on the Orange Unified School District Master Plan Committee and regularly visits local schools to maintain currency in curriculum and instructional methods; during summer 2020, Dean Miller completed specific training in assistive technologies to expand her skills in serving students with moderate to extensive support needs.