Pam Burish

Contact Information

120F Bronson Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-0193
pburish@nd.edu

Degrees held

B.S., Elementary Education with a minor in Outdoor/Environmental Education, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater

M.Ed., Educational Leadership, Trevecca Nazarene University; Nashville, Tennessee

Honors/Awards

Google Certified Teacher, 2006
James G. Leyburn Award for exemplary community service, Washington and Lee University, 2005
Apple Computer Distinguished Educator, 1996 – 2000
Tennessee Teacher of the Year, 1995
Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, 1994
Tennessee Council for the Social Studies Teacher of the Year, 1992

Educational research interests

Educational Technology; Critical Thinking and Creativity includes current action research on Visual Thinking Strategies; Use of children’s literature as mentor texts and with writing/interdisciplinary studies;
Environmental education; Poverty issues related to education

Select publications

Fuchs, D., Fuchs, L.S., & Burish, P. (2000). Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies: An evidence-based practice to promote reading achievement. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice.

Bio

Pamela Burish has been involved in K – 12 Education for over thirty years in both public and Catholic schools. She has been a classroom teacher of grades 3 – 5 in rural Wisconsin and urban Tennessee including an ACE affiliated school working with diverse populations such as low socioeconomic or non-English speaking students.

Mrs. Burish has worked in the area of educational technology as a classroom teacher and is a recipient of numerous educational grants. Her work outside of the classroom included the coordination of a former ACOT – Apple Classroom of Tomorrow Teacher Development site, a variety of opportunities with various governmental agencies or organizations developing technology grant projects and curriculum resources, and creation of an online assessment tool for grades K – 6. Currently, Mrs. Burish is the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Coordinator for Technology Outreach through the University of Notre Dame.

In the area of teacher preparation, Mrs. Burish has been a mentor teacher through Vanderbilt University and a university instructor at Washington and Lee University and University of Notre Dame. The current courses she teaches at the University of Notre Dame are a seminar with undergraduate students in the area of K – 12 environmental science, an online assessment graduate level course, and a summer Language Arts graduate course – elementary level – focusing on writing, children’s literature, and curriculum development.