MO SW-PBS Summer Institute 2024 Invited Speakers
DR. TIM LEWIS has been involved in special education for 40 years. He has taught students with emotional and behavioral disorders in high school, elementary school, and self-contained psychiatric settings. Lewis is a curators’ distinguished professor of special education at the University of Missouri and is a member of 13 editorial boards. He has worked to develop schoolwide systems of behavioral support for over 30 years and is a frequent contributor to professional literature on the subject.
DR. AARON 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 behavioral 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. ANGUS KITTELMAN is an assistant professor in 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. In 2023, he received the Initial Research Award from the Association for Positive Behavior Support.
DR. DANIEL RECTOR has more than 15 years of experience in education having served as a teacher, building administrator, school-improvement consultant, and SW-PBS statewide coach/ district facilitator. Rector currently serves as the director of student services for the Fulton School District, providing programmatic oversight and support to the student experience from enrollment to graduation including the district’s efforts to implement SW-PBS.
DR. SARA ESTRAPALA is an assistant research professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on developing and studying school-based behavioral interventions for high school students with challenging behaviors and targeted Tier 2 self-regulation interventions. She is particularly interested in equipping teachers with simple, effective behavioral interventions that will enable students to experience emotional, behavioral, and social success in school.
DR. LISA POWERS is a senior research associate with the MU Center for SW-PBS. She has been involved in special education for the past 30 years and has taught students with emotional and behavioral disorders in elementary and middle school. She also has been an SW-PBS facilitator and an administrator. Her areas of focus include building district leadership for implementation efforts, best practices in professional learning, and connecting culturally proficient practices to a tiered-systems framework.