Bill Therrien is the Thomas G. Jewell Professor of Education at the University of Virginia. He also is the coordinator of the Research in Practice group for the STAR (Supporting Transformative Autism Research) project and is Co-PI for the Special Education Research Accelerator (SERA). He is the co-editor of Exceptional Children, the flagship research journal of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Therrien has extensive experience designing and evaluating academic programming for students with autism and learning disabilities particularly in the areas of science and reading. In his work, Therrien employs a variety of methods including single subject, experimental, and quasi-experimental group research designs. Therrien has also conducted numerous meta-analyses in the areas of reading, science and special education. He successfully directed/co-directed over 15 federal and state grants totaling more than $21 million in funding.

Websites and clickable links:
Bill’s faculty page
DLD’s website
TECBD Conference page
Alethia Society page
Flint Michigan Lead Crisis: Settlement

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:

• David Bateman - E10 and E13
• Peggy Weiss - E30
• Erica Lembke - E09

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

• Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
• Books on Stoicism

Dr. Endia Lindo. Endia is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Texas Christian University. She also is an executive board member and past president of the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL). Her research focuses on improving the reading comprehension of students with learning difficulties and disabilities and educators’ cultural competence. Dr. Lindo engages as a critical quantitative researcher whose work examines what is known and needed to establish, implement, and sustain school and community-based intervention practice especially for those students in which multiple vulnerabilities (e.g., disability, poverty, and cultural and linguistic differences) intersect.

“Choices have invoices.” ~ Busta Rhymes

Websites and clickable links:

Endia’s faculty page

DDEL’s website

What is PALS?

PALS on What Works Clearinghouse

Children of the Code

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:

Mark Schneider - E41 was the Director of the Institute for Educational Sciences (IES)

Jessica Toste - E31 is at the University of Texas

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

Unstuck & Unstoppable: Shake Off the Past, Find Your Purpose, Get on with Your Life by Jimn Kyles

Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership by Leslie T. Fenwick et al.

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker et al.

Intersectionality in Education: Toward More Equitable Policy, Research, and Practice by Wendy Cavendish et al.

Dr. Elizabeth Hughes is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Penn State University. Her current research line overlaps her love for reading, writing, and mathematics by evaluating the role of language in learning and communicating mathematics. She has developed interventions to support students’ language when learning mathematics and answering open-response word problems in mathematics. Dr. Hughes also is the current Vice President of DLD.

Websites and clickable links:
Elizabeth’s faculty page: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-elizabeth-hughes
DLD’s website: https://www.teachingld.org/

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:
Paul Riccomini - E26 is at Penn State
Kait Brennan - E43 is from Pittsburgh

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)
Murder mysteries with strong female protagonists
Resources to support framing work to make it more culturally inclusive

Angus Kittelman is an assistant professor within the Department of Special Education at the University of Missouri. His research areas include positive behavioral interventions and supports with an emphasis in high schools, implementation science and systems change, and implementing and evaluating school-based interventions for students with emotional and behavioral problems. Angus has received funding from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education/Education Innovation and Research (EIR). In 2023, he was a recipient of the Initial Researcher Award from the Association of Positive Behavior Support (APBS).

Links:
Angus’ faculty page: https://cehd.missouri.edu/person/angus-kittelman/
PBIS: www.pbis.org
Missouri Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support: https://pbismissouri.org/

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:
Tim Lewis - E33
Aaron Campbell - E42
Mary Rose Sallese - E16
Mark Schneider - E41
Matt Burns - E23

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Kait Brennan is an experienced Policy Advisor and Lobbyist focused on addressing the critical shortage of special educators and lack of diversity in the field. She is the principal and founder of KB Strategies, a boutique government affairs and political strategy firm. At the federal level, she represents the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children (TED - CEC) and the Higher Education Consortium for Special Education (HECSE) as their Senior Policy Advisor. Kait has a demonstrated history of working in the K-12 and higher education industry and is skilled in Special Education, K-12 Education, Education Policy, Teacher Preparation, and Urban Education. Kait earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Special Education from University of Pittsburgh.

Links:
KB Strategies: kbrennan@kbstrategies.org

Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children (TED-CEC): https://tedcec.org/

Higher Education Consortium for Special Education (HECSE): https://hecse.net/

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)
Advocating for the Common Good: People, politics, process, and policy on Capitol Hill by Jane West - available from Rowman & Littlefield

Related Services in Special Education: Working Together as a Team by Lisa Goran & David F. Bateman - available from Rowman & Littlefield

Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi's Speakership, 2005–2010 by John A. Lawrence

Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
by Derek W. Black

Dr. Aaron R. Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri. Her research involves equitable intervention delivery within a multi-tiered behavior support framework focused on preventative strategies for improving student academic, social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes, particularly in culturally and linguistically diverse learners and those students being educated in underserved communities. Dr. Campbell currently serves as the director of an inaugural undergraduate and graduate student research lab focused on refining and testing interventions to reduce exclusionary discipline practices, improve student teacher relationships, increase instructional and classroom time for marginalized students with or at risk of an Emotional and Behavioral Disorder (EBD), and culturally responsive Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and culturally responsive Positive Behavior Interventions Supports. Dr. Campbell also provides technical assistance to state, district and school level teams across the nation on preventative practices, including addressing implicit bias in classroom management, school discipline, effective classroom behavior management strategies, and culturally responsive SEL. Dr. Campbell’s teaching and research focus on culturally responsive intervention delivery within a multi-tiered behavior support framework with a specific emphasis on supporting historically marginalized children and youth in schools and communities.

Websites: (with clickable links)
Aaron’s faculty page
PBIS: www.pbis.org
Missouri Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support: https://pbismissouri.org/

Dr. Mark Schneider is the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences for the Department of Education. (For those who are unfamiliar, this is the federal Department of Education for the entire United States of America.) Before joining IES, Mark Schneider was a vice president and an Institute Fellow at American Institutes for Research (AIR) and President of College Measures. Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Schneider served as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics from 2005–2008. In 2013, the Chronicle of Higher Education selected him as one of the 10 people who had the most impact on higher education policy that year.

He is the author of numerous articles and books on education policy. His most recent book, The University Next Door, edited with KC Deane, was published in 2014 by Teachers College, Columbia University.

Dr. Schneider was a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Websites: (with clickable links)
Institute of Education Sciences
Director Mark Schneider’s Bio
National Center for Special Education Research
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
National AI Institute for Exceptional Education
What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guides
Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Program
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

Wine for Normal People

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Related Services in Special Education: Working Together as a Team by Lisa Goran & David F. Bateman - available from Rowman & Littlefield

Dr. Beth Stormshak is a Knight Chair and Professor in the Counseling Psychology and Human Services department in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on understanding risk factors in early and middle childhood associated with the development of problem behavior in late adolescence, including substance use and delinquency. Her research focus includes testing the efficacy of family-centered interventions, such as the Family Check-Up, that reduce the later risk of problem behavior. She also has developed an online version of the Family Check-Up for wide-scale dissemination.

Resources from this episode (Clickable Links):
More on Dr. Beth Stormshak
Preventing Emotional and Behavior Problems in Middle School Youth at risk of Disability after the COVID-19 Pandemic with the Family Check-Up Online
Institute of Education Sciences
National Center for Special Education Research

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

Related Services in Special Education: Working Together as a Team by Lisa Goran & David F. Bateman - available from Rowman & Littlefield

Everyday Parenting: A Professional's Guide to Building Family Management Skills

Prevention Science Journal

Books, real paper books! Browse your local library or bookstore. Find something new to experience, or reconnect with an old favorite.

A specific book: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge