Special Education
Stephanie Cox Suárez
Dr. Stephanie Cox Suárez is a clinical associate professor emerita of special & elementary education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in special education assessment, children with special needs, instructional methods seminars, and “making learning visible” documentation courses. She is the founder of the Documentation […]
Felicity Crawford
Dr. Felicity Crawford is a clinical associate professor of special education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She brings the perspective of an experienced preK-12 educator who has worked for many years, and at every grade level, in racially and culturally diverse classroom settings. Her research interests include teacher ideology, the […]
Lana Edwards Santoro
Dr. Lana Edwards Santoro is a research professor in the Special Education program at BU Wheelock. She has presented extensively on how to apply evidence-based instructional strategies in the classroom. She has also coauthored multiple reading programs for elementary-grade students who struggle with reading, including Early Reading Intervention (Pearson), and Moving-up Literacy’s Enhanced Core Reading […]
Hank Fien
Dr. Hank Fien is the Nancy H. Roberts Professor of Educational Innovation in the Teaching & Learning department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is also the director of the Wheelock Institute for the Science of Educatoin and the National Center on Improving Literacy. Dr. Fien’s research is focused on […]
Meghan Graham
Meghan Graham is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership & Policy program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research explores neurodiversity in education, with a focus on autistic girls and women. She is studying the autistic experience within the public school system and ways to best support students in […]
Jennifer Greif Green
Dr. Jennifer Greif Green is an associate professor in special education and a child clinical psychologist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on supporting students with emotional/behavioral disorders and bullying prevention. Within these lines of research, she studies teacher identification of students with mental health needs, racial/ethnic disparities […]
Nancy Harayama
Dr. Nancy Harayama is a senior lecturer in the Special Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work focuses on the assessment and instruction of students with significant cognitive disabilities, more specifically, the adaptations for access to the general education curriculum, augmentative and alternative communication, and positive behavioral supports. […]
Oscar E. Hughes
Oscar E. Hughes is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies in the Special Education Program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Oscar believes that the needs and priorities expressed by people with disabilities should be central to supports, services, and research in disability and education. He is especially interested in promoting […]
Luna Hwang
Luna Hwang is a doctoral student at BU Wheelock in the EdD in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. Luna’s research interests include special education, early childhood education, elementary education, math education, reading education, social justice in education, and teacher preparation. During her time at UMass Amherst, Luna was a teaching assistant for Dr. Bob Malloy […]
Nathan Jones
Dr. Nathan Jones is an associate professor in the Special Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is affiliated faculty with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC) and is a founding member of the BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Beginning on September 1, 2023, Dr. Jones is on […]