Associate Dean Janet Bixby

Dr. Janet Bixby is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Education at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, where she has been teaching since 2001. Janet began her teaching career as a Social Studies teacher at Brainerd High School in Minnesota (where the film Fargo was really filmed), and also taught high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After getting her Master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, she joined the faculty at Lewis & Clark. At Lewis & Clark she teaches courses on curriculum and pedagogy in secondary social studies as well as professional seminars on secondary teaching.

Her research interests include detracking, youth civic education and activism, authentic assessment, and teacher education. She has also been a consultant and curriculum developer for web-based professional development programs for teachers of U.S. history.

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