Areas of Interest

• Students with behavior disorders.
• School based research.
• Individual interventions.
• Classroom interventions.
• Behavioral and academic outcomes.

Keyword Interest

• Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
• Responses to Interventions
• Classroom Interventions
• Individual Interventions
• Stress

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Studying the effects of long term behavior and academic interventions on the behavior and academic outcomes of children with emotional disabilities enrolled in urban public schools.

Project:
Analyzing the effects of stress on responses to behavioral and academic interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

Project:
Examining the varying responses to interventions of students with different emotional and behavioral profiles.

Former Experience

• One year as teacher of students with emotional and behavioral disorders in self-contained classrooms (3rd through 5th grade).

Education

• M.A. (2005): General and Special Education, Bank Street College of Education
• B.A. (2002): Religion, Lafayette College