David F. Bateman, PhD, is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Special Education at Shippensburg University, where he teaches courses on special education law, assessment, and facilitating inclusion. He is a former due process hearing officer for Pennsylvania for over 580 hearings. He uses his knowledge of litigation relating to special education to assist school districts in providing appropriate supports for students with disabilities. His latest area of research has been on the role of principals in special education. He has been a classroom teacher of students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disability, and hearing impairments, and a building administrator for summer programs. Dr. Bateman has recently coauthored the following books: A Principal''s Guide to Special Education, A Teacher''s Guide to Special Education, Charting the Course: Special Education in Charter Schools, and Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education.
Mitchell L. Yell, PhD, is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. His professional interests include special education law, positive behavior support, IEP development, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 124 journal articles, 5 textbooks, and 32 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr.
Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 16 years. Kevin P. Brady, PhD, is professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is also adjunct associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance. He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West''s Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals.
hD, is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. His professional interests include special education law, positive behavior support, IEP development, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 124 journal articles, 5 textbooks, and 32 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 16 years.
Kevin P. Brady, PhD, is professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is also adjunct associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance. He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West''s Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals. y, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA).
His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance. He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West''s Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals.hD, is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. His professional interests include special education law, positive behavior support, IEP development, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 124 journal articles, 5 textbooks, and 32 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring.
His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 16 years. Kevin P. Brady, PhD, is professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is also adjunct associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance.
He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West''s Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals. hD, is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. His professional interests include special education law, positive behavior support, IEP development, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 124 journal articles, 5 textbooks, and 32 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition.
He also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 16 years. Kevin P. Brady, PhD, is professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is also adjunct associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance. He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law.
He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West''s Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals. y, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance. He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West''s Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals.y, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA).
His primary research areas are legal issues in special education, Fourth Amendment issues in schools, and equity issues involving school finance. He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and.