Renee L. Cambiano

Renée L. Cambiano

Age and/or Generation: 47

Current Job(s): Professor of Education; Educational Foundations and Leadership, Chair; Master of Education in Teaching, Chair

Former Job(s): I have taught at the college level for the past 14 years. Prior to that I was a public school teacher and taught 8^th graders different courses in biology. I have been conducting some kind of research since 1983 in the areas of Fisheries, Solar Kilns, and Learning and Teaching.

Education and/or Training: B.S. Biology with a Fisheries emphasis; M.S. Instruction and Curriculum Leadership; Ed. D. Adult and Vocational Education; Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Certification.

Greatest Professional Accomplishment: Well, this is a good question… I would say watching my students become better professional, growing in their discipline. The legacy I will leave behind will be those lives I touch… This is my greatest professional accomplishment.

“I may be here for a short while, gone tomorrow into oblivion or until the days come to take me away.

But, in whatever part you play, be remembered as part of a legacy...

of sharing dreams and changing humanity for the better. It's that legacy that never dies” 

Anonymous

 

Areas of Expertise: Learning Styles; Curriculum Development; Research Design;

Hometown: Born in Pomona California, raised in Tahlequah, OK.

Other Towns of Residence: Memphis, TN

Hobbies: My family and Traditions; Plants (it’s really an obsession); Collecting John Dewey first editions

The Role of Mentors in Your Life: I am very lucky because my life has been touched by many mentors. Rose and Ross Cambiano (my parents) who taught me to think differently and accept all.. Letha and Charles Smentana (janitors at my elementary school) who taught me to take the time for others, for you may be changing their lives forever…. Third, Mrs. Joyce Purdy (my high school art teacher) who taught me that it may not be the academic portion of school that keeps a child in school…. Dr. Jim Schooley (my advisor in college) who taught me the value of hands-on learning and relationship building….. Dr. Jack DeVore (my dissertation chair) who taught me that having a passion for what you do separates those who work and those who have a profession…. Now – I have many colleagues that continue to mentor me daily….

Favorite Quotation(s):

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students 

to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, 

encouraging them to create their own." 

Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957).

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. 

Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” 

Maya Angelou

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, 

not the production of correct answers,

is the measure of educative growth something 

hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.” 

John Dewey

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and 

the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

 John Dewey