Technical Assistance Experts
Jason Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
970-351-4206
jason.robinson@unco.edu
- Proactively addressing student behavior
Sandy Bowen, Ph.D., Professor
970-351-2102
- Education of students who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH)
- Students and families who are culturally and linguistically diverse (DHH)
- Coaching and mentoring
- Teacher Preparation
- Literacy development
- Deaf-blindness
- Early intervention (DHH)
Lori Peterson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
970-351-1376
- Meaningful and compliant transition IEPs (Indicator 13)
- Self-determination
- Transition assessment
Rashida Banerjee, Ph.D., Professor
970-351-1184
- Engaging in meaningful evaluation and assessment practices, particularly for children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or children with social-emotional development concerns.
- Supporting play to promote development and learning
- Supporting classroom transitions between daily routines
- Promoting culturally responsive practices for children with challenging behaviors
- Promoting family engagement and family/professional collaboration
- Promoting collaboration and consultation among professionals
- Designing and implementing research
- Conducting program evaluation and using program data to make informed decisions
Jennifer Ritchotte, Ph.D., Associate Professor
970-351-2691
- Twice-exceptionality (i.e., giftedness and disability)
- Giftedness (e.g., overview, identification, programming)
- Underachievement and/or dropping out
Lewis Jackson, Ed.D., Professor
970-351-1658
- General education curriculum support for students with significant support needs
- Classroom support in general education for students with intellectual disability
- Language and communication intervention for students with severe disabilities
- Positive behavioral support planning for students with emotional and behavioral issues, including trauma
Francie Murry, Ph.D., Professor
970-351-1656
- Differentiation instructional tools and adaptations
- Noncompliance strategies to gain compliance
- Cultural responsive communication strategies
- Conflict reduction skills
- Math metacognition and manipulations
- Use of self-as-model assistive tech for behavior change
- Strategies for engaging gifted underachievers
- Strategies to counteract truancy
Kris Melloy, Ph.D.
970-351-3553
- Educational leadership for inclusive schools (e.g., teachers, school administrators, special education administrators)
- Multi-tiered systems of supports that promote academic, behavioral, and social achievement
- Positive behavior intervention and supports (PBIS) in inclusive school settings
- Behavior management in elementary classrooms
- Behavior management in secondary classrooms
- Working with students with challenging behaviors and challenged by their behavior (elementary and secondary)
- Social skills instruction for elementary students
- Social skills instruction for secondary students
- Inclusive school environments that promote social justice for all students
- Para-educators and positive behavior intervention
Todd Sundeen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
970-351-1652
- Inclusion
- Co-teaching
- Universal design for learning
- Rubric design and development
- Expressive writing support for students with disabilities
- IEP development
- IEP goal writing
Paula Conroy, Ed.D., Professor
970-351-1651
- Blindness, general
- Braille literacy
- Orientation and mobility, general
- Visual impairment and additional disabilities
- Visual impairment and second language learning
- Itinerant teaching/service delivery
