Information

Professional Experience

Wichita State University - Clinical Professor | 2016 - Present

Wichita State University - Guest Lecturer | 2011 - 2016

  • EL 968 - Technology Orientation | Summer 2016
  • EL 981 - Intro Field-Based Research 1 | 2012 - Present
  • EL 982 - Intro Field-Based Research 2 | 2012 - Present
  • CLES 872 - Finance and Human Resources in Colleges and Universities | Spring 2015 - 2016
  • CLES 801 - Intro to Education Research | Summer 2012 - Present

University - Related Professional Activities

  • Lead Researcher, What Is and What Could Be: Technology Access, Use, and Impact in Riverville Middle Schools (2016). Research paper accepted for a paper session to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2017.
  • Lead Researcher, To Stay or Leave: Retention of Special Education Teachers. (2015). Research paper accepted for poster-session to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2016.
  • Lead Researcher, Improving School Climate: Perceptions of Stakeholders Implementing a Commercial School Improvement Program. (2014). Research paper presentation in a paper session to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2015. Clinical Professor 2016 - Present
  • Co-Lead Researcher, Old Spaces, New Faces: Adjusting to a Changing Student Body in a Midwestern Rural District. (2014). Research Paper presented to the University Council for Educational Administration Annual Convention, November, 2014.
  • Co-Lead Researcher, Growth and Sustainability in a Rural Kansas Town. (2012). Research Paper, Roundtable Session, presented to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, 2013.

Derby High School, USD 260 | Derby, Kansas 1996 - 2011 (Retired)

  • Principal | 2005 - 2011
    • Responsibilities included: Implementation and supervision of programming and for 2000+ students in traditional, virtual, and alternative settings; supervision of @ 215 staff including administrative, certified and classified personnel (including evaluation, acquisition, termination); budget and capital outlay; Administrative Chair NCA/AdvancED School Improvement; supervision of facilities, safety and security (361,000 sq. ft. on 7 acres and alternative off-site campus for Derby Alternative High School).
  • Assistant Principal | 1996 - 2005
    • Responsibilities included: School Improvement, North Central Association accreditation process; maintaining the budget and capital outlay; supervision of curriculum and instruction; facilitating and coordinating staff development; English Language Learners; master scheduling; shared responsibility for student safety and discipline; shared responsibility for supervising and evaluating certified and classified staff; Summer School programming.
  • District - Related Activities USD 260 | Derby, Kansas
    • Co-Facilitator, Strategic Plan; Program Manager, budgeting process; District School Improvement Steering Committee; District School Improvement Plan Committee (Reading).

Wichita High School West, USD 259 | Wichita, Kansas 1995 - 1996

  • Assistant Principal
    • Responsibilities included: Ninth Grade class (@455 students) including discipline, parent communication and curricular issues; cafeteria; transportation; Building Coordinator, Career Pathways.

Truesdell Middle School, USD 259 | Wichita, Kansas 1994 - 1995

  • Assistant Principal
    • Responsibilities included: Eighth Grade Administrator; discipline, parent communications and curricular issues; Special Education Administrator including LD, BD, MR, GTC, SMD, and medically fragile students; master scheduling.

John Marshall Middle School, USD 259 | Wichita, Kansas 1988 - 1994

  • Special Education Teacher/Team Leader
    • Responsibilities included: Teacher of students with behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, interrelated, and inclusion; School Team Leader for the Special Education Department; created an innovative program mainstreaming special education students that was replicated in other schools and districts; created an innovative master schedule for delivery of differentiated and fully integrated curriculum.'
  • District - Related Activities USD 259 | Wichita, Kansas
    • District – Related Activities USD 259 Wichita, Kansas Chair, Professional Development Council, USD 259 (1994 -1995); Member, Professional Development Council, USD 259 (1992 -1994).