Kodály Faculty and Staff

AKI core faculty members are distinguished master teachers, experts in their fields, with real-life experience teaching children and adults. They are always available to correspond with prospective students via email.

Lauren McDougle

Lauren McDougle 
AKI Program Director
Materials
Folk instruments


lkmcdougle@loyola.edu

Biography
 Amanda Isaac

Amanda Isaac

Choral Studies
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Amy Weishaar

Teaching Music to Students with 
Special Needs

Ashley Cuthbertson

Ashley Cuthbertson

Pedagogy
 Felix Polendey

Felix Polendey

Choral Studies
 Francois Suhr


Francois Suhr

Musicianship
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James Dorsey

Advanced Studies in Music Education
 Jim Javorsky


Jim Javorsky

Materials
Folk instruments
 

 

Patrick Dempsey

Foundations of Educational Research

 
Rebecca Foster


Rebecca Foster

Materials
Folk instruments
Stephanie Lichtenberger

Stephanie Lichtenberger

Choral Studies

Meet Our Community

Pursuing Justice, Together

When students enroll in the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs at Loyola’s School of Education, they are welcomed into a vibrant and diverse community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni who are engaged in ensuring an inclusive educational system that actualizes social justice.

Kelly Keane
Faculty

Kelly Keane, Ed.D.

“The education technology faculty at Loyola work hard to develop a sense of community in all of the courses, and this leads to great relationships between students and faculty as well as among all students in the program.”
Stephanie Flores-Koulish
Faculty

Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Ph.D.

“What’s different about a Loyola education is we truly value the idea of cura personalis for our students—and for their future students. This is not simply a degree to be purchased, but intellectual engagement, which lingers in the hearts and minds of the learners.”
Margarita Zisselsberger
Faculty

Margarita Gomez, Ph.D.

“I am particularly interested in developing assessment tools that measure the cultural and linguistic competencies that multilingual and multicultural students bring to schooling.”
Mike McCourt
Alumni

Mike McCourt

“Jesuits have a solid reputation as educators. The other students in my cohort were amazing and made the intensity of this program a shared, instead of solitary, experience of growth and learning.”