Dr. Michael Perrotti

Biography

Dr. Perrotti has 15 years of public school teaching experience at the secondary level. He is a Quality Matters Master Reviewer, and a Diversity Leader-National SEED Project.

Research, Publications and Presentations

• “Predicting Achievement on State Tests Based on School Health and Teacher Self-­‐Evaluation.” (Dissertation, 2011)
• “Download This!: Making Social Studies Instruction Relevant In the Age of Social Networking and
Online Instruction.” Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies State Conference, October 2012.
• “The Classroom Detective: Using Investigation and Debate to Enhance Literacy in Social Studies Classrooms.” Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies State Conference, October 2013
• “The Classroom Detective: Using Primary Sources in the Era of Common Core Accountability.” Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies State Conference. October 2013 
• Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-
  “Social Studies in the Era of the Common Core State Standards,” 2014
• Middle States Council for the Social Studies State Conference”-
  “Service Learning in the Social Studies Classroom-Cultivating our Future Community Leaders,” 2014
• Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-
  “Lifelong Learning: Teaching and Promoting a Conceptual View of Social Studies in the 21st Century Classroom,” 2015
• Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-
  “Citizenship and the Social Studies in a Diverse Society-A Lesson Based Perspective,” 2016
• Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference, 2017
• Panelist-Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference-"Teaching and Learning in the Era of #metoo. Gender and Power in Teaching and Learning Social Studies," 2019
• "Yearning to Breathe Free: The Immigrant Experience and Building Unity in the Classroom and in our Curriculum." Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies State Conference, 2019

Research Interests

• Improving teacher retention
• Building teacher-community partnerships
• Content-based literacy 

Grants Written

Co-Investigator/Researcher: PASSHE Innovation in Teaching Grant: 2014 "Creating a Teacher Education Model of Common Core State Standard Profession Development" 

University Responsibilities

• Member of the General Education Committee
• Member of the Faculty Professional Development (FPDC) Grants and Contracts Subcommittee 
• Secondary Education and Administrative Leadership Department webmaster 
• Chair of the University-Wide Curriculum Committee
• Member of the General Education Committee
• Department webmaster

Community and Professional Service

• Member of the Pennsylvania Council of the Social Studies Board of Directors
• Member of the Comprehensive Planning Committee at California Area School District
• United States Track and Field Level I Coach

• Education
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