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Educator Preparation Institute (EPI): Faculty and Contact InformationContactEPI Contact information: Dr. Betty Bennett - Director: bbennett@unf.edu 904-620-1823 Dee Crawford - Project Coordinator: dcrawfor@unf.edu 904-620-1880 Fax: 904-620-1619 (No cover sheet necessary – delivers directly to the EPI).
Faculty and Staff for the Educator Preparation InstituteThis dynamic team of EPI faculty model co-teaching in the delivery of the curriculum. Large group sessions address major teaching-related concepts. In small groups, EPI participants study and apply content as related to their particular disciplines and/or grade levels. Dr. Betty Bennett is our EPI Director with 15 years of experience in K-12 education as a teacher, administrator and district trainer of beginning teachers. She also has 10 years experience as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at UNF including teaching in UNF’s Belize M.ED program. She has written two books on school discipline. She is a certified martial arts instructor and through this venue teaches anti-bullying to children and women's self-defense. She was Pak’s Karate of Mandarin’s 2005 Instructor of the Year. Her passion is creating safe learning environments for all students. Ms. Dee Crawford, EPI Project Coordinator, has worked in partnership with Kathryn Krudwig for six years. She is at the core of the EPI’s infrastructure. She is an expert organizer, financial manager, communicator, materials designer, liaison with partner districts and UNF offices, and on-site facilitator. She is energetic, positive, talented, and committed. Her passion is to ensure the highest level of quality for EPI delivery to participating teachers. Dr. Lynne Raiser, UNF Professor Emeritus and EPI Curriculum Coordinator, has taught children at every grade level in five states as an elementary school or ESE teacher (K-6), 7th grade English teacher or speech pathologist (7-12). She retired from the University of North Florida in 2004 but hasn't lost her 42 year passion for teaching. She coordinates the Gladys Prior Awards for Career Teaching Excellence and was the 1993 EVE Award winner for her work establishing Very Special Arts in Northeast Florida, now a part of the Cummer Museum. She loves to teach teachers to help struggling learners to read. Miss Shannon Wine, M.Ed., is a former UNF Honors student and teacher of the year at her school. She has been a Reading First Coach at Annie R. Morgan Elementary School and a Literacy Coach for Episcopal Children's Services. She presently teaches inclusion kindergarten at Woodland Acres Professional Development School where she interned ten years ago. UNF students in the PreK-Primary program visit her class to learn how to teach young children effectively. Miss Wine brings experience and passion to preparing young children throughout their elementary years to be successful learners. She especially loves to teach literacy and appropriate social behaviors. Dr. Kristine Wiest Webb, UNF Associate Professor, is the Director of UNF Disability Resource Center. She is a former secondary music and ESE teacher. She was the 1989 Albuquerque, New Mexico, Teacher of the Year. Kris was the recipient of the 2007 UNF Outstanding Faculty Service Award and the 2002 UNF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. Her passion is preparing adolescents and adults with disabilities to be successful participants in society. Ms. Cindy Coates, EPI
Certification Ombudsman, has an
associate degree in psychology and plans
to pursue a teaching degree in special
education. Cindy brings a wealth of
experience and skills from her
background in the mental health field
and substitute teaching. She supports
EPI participants with a wide array of
certification needs. She also provides
on-site support during EPI instructional
sessions, prepares materials, and
encourages participants with her caring
and enthusiastic commitment to their
success. Dr. Kathryn Krudwig, our EPI Statistician, has a 27-year history as a K-12 classroom teacher, behavioral specialist, diagnostician, and program developer in four states. She has taught both general and special education students with a wide range of identified disabilities, although emotional/behavioral disorders is her professional field. She has taught all of the core subject areas at all grade levels. She is a former Clay County Teacher of the Year. She is presently the Northeast Florida Regional Coordinator for the State Department of Education’s/Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services’ Personnel Development. Her heart and work are wrapped around classroom teachers to support their expertise, resilience, and commitment to teaching well. |
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