Faculty Biographical Sketches
Leah Stambler, Department of Education & Educational Psychology
Dr. Leah Stambler, is a Full Professor of Education at WestConn, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Foundations of Education, Curriculum of the Secondary School, Adolescent Development, Methods of Teaching in the Secondary School, Integrating Language in the Secondary School, and Assessment of Teaching Strategies.
Dr. Leah Stambler holds a BA in History from Hunter College of the City University of New York, an MA from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Connecticut. She was a History/Social Studies Educator at the secondary education level for 14 years in New York City, New Haven, and Stamford schools before shifting her teaching focus to higher education clientele. She taught History and Education courses at South Central Community College [now known as Gateway Community College], University of New Haven, Albertus Magnus College, and the American University of Les Cayes, Haiti.
She has served as a People to People Delegation Leader for groups of secondary level students for the past eleven years, traveling to such countries as the former Soviet Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Hungary. Dr. Stambler also has traveled in Italy, Kenya, and India as a Fulbright Scholar, and has participated in multiple programs as an awardee of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Most recently, she participated in the Connecticut State University's Yale Visiting Faculty Program, where she was hosted by Dr. Paula Hyman in the Religious Studies Program of the History Department.
She has a large variety of published works, and has presented numerous workshops in her field and research based papers on women's history topics at state, regional, and national conferences. She has served on various committees of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), and has reviewed Social Studies NCATE Portfolios. She has been active in the State of Connecticut's Beginning Educator Support Training Program (BEST) as a Cooperating Teacher, Mentor, State Assessor, Trainer of Mentors, and Social Studies Beginning Teacher Portfolio Scorer, as well as serving on a visiting accreditation team for the CSDE. She wrote and implemented a CSDE BEST training grant for 30 administrators in the Danbury Public School System.
