Curriculum Vitae

WORK HISTORY

2000- Present President & CEO, TEACH, Inc., a for-profit K-12 consulting company

1987-2002 Principal Investigator, Research Professor and Director of the Schoolwide Equity and Excellence Model (SEEM) Research Center at the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies and Project Coordinator in the Department of Special Education, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

1995-1998 Topeka Public Schools Director of Magnet Schools and Co-Coordinator of Strategic Planning

1984-1987 Washburn University Assistant Professor of Special Education and Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Learning Disabilities

1983-1984 Topeka Public Schools Special Education Teacher at Topeka High School

1979-1983 University of Texas at Austin Department of Special Education Graduate Assistant

1976-1978 Austin Independent Public Schools Elementary Special Education Teacher

1975-1976 Brown Deer, Wisconsin Public Schools, High School Special Education Teacher

1972-1974 Salt Lake City Public School District, Elementary and Junior High Special Education Teacher and Elementary Follow-Through Teacher

EDUCATION

1991 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Kansas Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, Kansas City, Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

1986 Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Special Education (PhD), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

1973 Master of Science in Special Education, University of Utah at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah

1971 Bachelor of Science in Special Education, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas