Dr. Lequisha Brown-Joseph
University of Phoenix

Personal Introduction

Dr. Lequisha Brown-Joseph also known as Dr. LBJ has four wonderful children; two boys 27 and 21 and a 13 year old daughter. She also had another daughter who is now deceased, she would have been 28 this past August 2018. Dr. LBJ is originally from New Orleans, LA, however she currently resides in California.
  
Educational Experiences

Dr. Brown-Joseph has been a K12 educator for the last 18 years working in Orleans Parish Schools and Barstow Unified School District. Her specializations are Science Education and Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Brown-Joseph currently serves as a Dissertation Chair and Committee member in the PhD program for the University of Phoenix and a Contribuiting Faculty member for Walden University in the EDD program. In addition to her classroom and online experience she is a published author and presenter. She has a great passion for teaching and loves making the light bulb come on in learners. She visualizes learners as pilot lights; where some need to be lit up and some need their pilots turned up, or some just may need the teacher to help keep their pilots lit and going strong. Dr. LBJ is the fuel to a learner’s fire and shares that it is our job to light learners up and keep them going.

Teaching Experiences

Dr. Brown-Joseph has taught in Orleans Parish schools for 5-years pre Katrina as a middle and high school science teacher as well as department chair. She began teaching in Barstow, CA in 2004. She whore 7 hats where she also served as the science department chair for 6 years. She left the district to pursue opening her own charter school in New Orleans and then return to Barstow in 2015.

CA she whore 7 hats where she also served as the science department chair for 6 years. Early in 2009, she branched off into online teaching where she has served as an Associate Faculty member for Ashford University and currently teaches teachers and chair doctoral and EDD learners for University of Phoenix and Walden University.

Educational Strengths

Dr. Brown-Joseph has experience working with learners’ grades 4-12 including special education and other diverse learners. First and foremost, she was science teacher with a specialty in Biology and General Sciences, but has taken courses, professional development and continued education experiences in all the other areas of science. She was also the science department chair and a house lead for the smaller learning communities. IN addition, one night a week she taught a variety of science courses through of PLATO software and Hippocampus a free online learning environment to adults and graduating seniors pursuing their high school diploma.  She also has incorporated the use of Gizmos a web-based program used to help learners learn science and math through interactive labs and manipulatives.   Furthermore, she has knowledge of many free open source technology-based and science-based programs and some web-based programs. In her classes, she has used a lot of animated lessons and planned many of her lessons centered on technology, but also allowed learners to learn how to properly incorporate these technologies into their projects and activities.

Furthermore, she has served as a vital participant as a Faculty Member in the Preceptorship program and a classroom facilitator in the Clinical Research Associate Training program in the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center at Dillard University in New Orleans. In this project, she under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI) and was responsible for recruiting and consenting eligible women for the HPV Educational Intervention Study and conducting follow-up on the women as proposed in the protocol of the study at LSU Interim Women’s ambulatory OB/GYN clinic or the Daughters of Charity. By performing these duties, Dr. Brown-Joseph, has worked with the PI, facility personnel and the project facility to support and provide guidance on the administration of the compliance, financial, personnel and other related aspects of the study. Dr. Brown-Joseph work on this longitudinal study for 3 years.

Her lifelong philosophy statement is based on one of our most famous western philosophers John Dewey, and it states that a learning environment based on the shared experiences of a community of learners should be created.  She believes that shared knowledge of life experiences will help learners and adults to be more motivated and lead successful and productive lives. Because she is in the trenches daily with learners, her most interesting and most challenging experiences are centered-on the learners. They are who she serves and all that she does to enhance her knowledge and expand her professional career is recycled and re-used to help them to get where she is or beyond.

Today

Dr. Lequisha Brown-Joseph aka Dr. LBJ is a current member of the Culture, Learning and Technology (CLT) division of AECT serving as the current VP of Finance and Development. As a current member of AECT hhe has earned the McJulian Award and Teacher Education Division. IN addition, the Dr. Brown-Joseph recently earned an award from the Design and Development Division mentoring students in a Design Challenge. Last, Dr.  LBJ is currently working on a book highlighting the narratives of African-African female professionals who were teenage mothers, as well other research interest concurrently. Her interest in the current CLT designee position lies in wanting to help the division grow, support the new programs and initiatives being implemented and to learn how to serve the division on a deeper level.