Oct. 8, 2020

Sara Estrapala

Dr. Sara Estrapala is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Her research focuses on Tier 1 and Tier 2 Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in high schools, and she is particularly interested in studying student voice, self-regulation development, and usability and feasibility of intervention implementation in the high school context. Dr. Estrapala was recently awarded an IES Early Career Development and Training Grant where she will iteratively develop a self-directed self-regulation intervention for high school students with disabilities…

Aug. 19, 2018

Tyler Smith

Tyler E. Smith is an Associate Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology. He earned his PhD in school psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the Institute of Education Sciences Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program in the department of Educational, School & Counseling Psychology. His research primarily focuses on parent involvement in education, family-school partnerships, school consultation, rural school mental health, and effective school-based interventions. Further, his methodological interests focus on conducting meta-analysis and systematic reviews within the fields of education and psychology. Tyler currently serves as the…

July 16, 2015

Delinda van Garderen

Delinda van Garderen, PhD, is a Professor of special education. Her research interests focus on students with learning disabilities, struggling learners, visual representations in mathematics word problem solving, STEM literacy, argumentation, quantitative reasoning, and teacher practice and development. Recent or current research projects include teacher professional development to integrate STEM literacy in instruction, how students and teachers use representations to solve mathematics word problems, student development and intervention in number (e.g., conservation of quantity, numerical magnitude), and use of scaffolding to plan instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners in science. She has mentored doctoral graduate students in educational…

July 15, 2015

Melissa Stormont

Dr. Melissa Stormont is a Professor in Special Education at MU. Dr. Stormont has published extensive research (over 80 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books and 10 book chapters) on the educational and social needs of children at risk for failure in school.  Dr. Stormont teaches undergraduate and graduate students in special education.  She has had extensive grant experience including serving as a Co-PI on personnel preparation and research grants and is currently a co-PI with Drs. Reinke and Herman on an efficacy trial of the STARS intervention funded by IES (Thompson, PI).  Currently she is an associate editor for the…

July 9, 2015

Wendy Reinke

July 9, 2015

Matthew Martens

Matthew Martens was appointed provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs on June 1, 2024 after briefly serving as interim provost. Before his interim appointment, Dr. Martens served as senior vice provost from 2021-2024 and was associate provost for academic programs from 2016-2021. During his time in the Provost’s Office, he has been instrumental in facilitating MizzouForward, which has resulted in recruiting more than 75 premier scientists and scholars to our campus. During the pandemic, he led the university’s Academic Operations Team as it guided the university’s academic response. Dr. Martens also redesigned the academic program assessment process to…

July 8, 2015

Tim Lewis

Dr. Tim Lewis has been involved in special education for 40 years.  Dr. Lewis has taught students with emotional and behavioral disorders in high school, elementary, and self-contained psychiatric settings.  At present, Dr. Lewis is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Special Education at the University of Missouri. Dr. Lewis is past Co-Editor of the journal Behavioral Disorders, Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Behavioral Interventions, and a member of 13 editorial boards. During his 34-year career in higher education Dr. Lewis has served multiple terms as department chair and associate dean for research. Dr. Lewis has been involved with developing school-wide systems…