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About Cheryl Ellerbrock

I identify myself as a middle grades and general secondary scholar who is expanding and deepening inquiry in middle grades education as well as impacting the local secondary education community and beyond by conducting educational research that investigates ways to promote responsive secondary school experiences for young adolescent learners (ages 10-15). My systematic program of research revolves around five interconnected strands: 
- Investigating ways middle and high school environments are responsive to the basic and developmental needs of adolescent learners;
- Exploring ways to foster a responsive middle-to-high-school transition for young adolescents;
- Examining ways to promote responsive middle level mathematics teaching for young adolescent learners;
- Exploring ways to infuse arts-based learning in secondary schools to explore issues of global importance in developmentally responsive ways;  
- Examining ways to cultivate developmentally and culturally responsive secondary teachers and teacher educators.

Positions

Present Associate Professor, University of South Florida
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2013 - Present Helios middle school residency program: Transforming STEM teacher preparation for the transition years implementation grant
Helios Education Foundation Implementation Grant
Role: Principal Investigator & Project Manager (2016-current); Co-Principal Investigator (2013-2016)
Colleague(s): R. Potter, S. Campbell, M. Krajcevski, S. Thomas, G. Kersaint, A. Feldman, L. Plank
$2,736,313.56
2019 Hidden History: Using Socially- Engaged Art to Teach about Marginalized Peoples
USF College of Education Anchin Center Bank of America Grant
Role: Project member
Colleague(s): B. Cruz, N. Smith
$2,000
2019 Novice Teachers' Conceptualization and Enactment of Responsive Middle Level Mathematics Teaching
USF College of Education Anchin Center Bank of America Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Colleague(s): E. Vomvoridi-Ivonivac
$2,000
2017 Using socially-engaged art to foster enlightened citizenship.
USF College of Education Anchin Center Bank of America Grant
Role: Project member
Colleague(s): B. Cruz
$2,000
2011 - 2012 Helios STEM middle school residency program: Transforming STEM teacher preparation for the transition years planning grant
Helios Education Foundation Planning Grant
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Colleague(s): G. Kersaint, B. Herman, L. Plank, R. Potter, M. Stewart
$430,000
2011 - 2012 simSchool open educational resource modules project
EDUCAUSE and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Colleague(s): M. Berson, T. Holfed
$36,000.00
2010 Center for 21st century teaching excellence iPad grant to implement the iPad in collegiate teaching
Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence Teaching Grant
$1,000.00
2008 The middle to high school transition
University of South Florida Internal Mini Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
$5,000.00
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2018 - Present Program Chair (Chair-elect), AERA's Middle Level Education Research Group
2018 - Present Reviewer, Journal of Practitioner Research
2017 - Present Research Advisory Board Member, Association for Middle Level Education
2017 - Present Co-lead, MLER SIG International Research Project on Middle Level Educator
2014 - Present Reviewer, Leadership and Policy in Schools
2013 - Present Reviewer, High School Jouurnal
2013 - Present Reviewer, Teachers College Record
2012 - Present Secretary, Florida League of Middle Schools
2012 - Present Collegiate Advisor, Florida League of Middle Schools
2011 - Present Reviewer, Urban Education
2010 - Present Reviewer, Middle School Journal
2018 Tenure & Promotion External Reviewer, University of Memphis
2016 - 2018 Vice Chair, AERA's Middle Level Education Research Group
2017 Textbook Reviewer, Introduction to Middle Level Education (3rd edition)
2015 - 2017 Early Career Mentoring Program Coordinator, AERA’s Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group
2015 - 2017 School Structures Project Co-Lead, Middle Level Education Research SIG Research Agenda Project
2011 - 2016 Graduate Student Mentoring Program Coordinator, Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group
2015 Member of Constitution and By-laws Ad-Hoc Committee, National Association of Professors of Middle Level Education
2013 - 2015 Council Member, Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group
2010 - 2012 Reviewer, Middle Grades Research Journal
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Honors and Awards

  • 2017, USF Research & Innovation Spotlight
  • 2016, Paul S. George Award in Recognition of Leadership and Service for the Advancement of Middle School Level Education in the State of Florida
  • 2010-2011, Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
  • 2004-2007, Alumni Fellowship
  • 2004, Pi Delta Kappa International
  • 2001, G. Ballard Simmons Scholarship
  • 2000, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Courses

  • Collegiate Teaching in Secondary Education
  • Middle Level Education
  • Classroom Management for a Diverse School & Society
  • Teaching the Young Adolescent Learner
  • Teaching the Adolescent Learner

Education

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2007 MEd, University of Florida
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2007 PhD, University of Florida
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2000 MEd, University of Florida
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1999 BA, Florida Southern College
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Contact Information

Phone: 813-974-3353
Office: EDU105

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