Ellie Fitts, M.Ed., Ed.D., is Chair of the Graduate Programs in Education and professor in the Education Department at Ithaca College. Before coming to Ithaca College, Dr. Fitts was a post-doctoral fellow at the Da Vinci Science Center, in Allentown, PA, where she managed a large scale multi-year STEM teacher professional development program, funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Dr. Fitts' K-12 teaching experience includes fifth grade in the Allentown School District (Allentown, PA), The Swain School (Allentown, PA), and Worcester Public Schools (Worcester, MA). Dr. Fitts has served as a mentor to Teach for America first-year teachers in the School District of Philadelphia, and as a supervisor for student teachers at Moravian College. Dr. Fitts holds a BA in Communications & Culture, and a M.Ed. in Urban Education & Teacher Research, both from Clark University, and an Ed.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education (PennGSE). Dr. Fitts' dissertation was centered on multicultural, antiracist teacher education with White teachers.
Formerly serving as a codirector and Dana Teaching Fellow with Ithaca College's Center for Faculty Excellence, Dr. Fitts held dual appointment with the Education Department while facilitating faculty development opportunities for colleagues across campus on topics such as antiracism, student literacies, academic writing and publishing, and new faculty orientation.
