Authors
and Co-Directors
Russell J. Skiba, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor
and the Director of the Indiana University Institute for Child Study at
Indiana University in Bloomington. Contact Russell
Skiba.
Reece L. Peterson, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Special Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is affiliated
with the Center on Children Families and the Law at the University of
Nebraska. Contact Reece Peterson.
Project Staff
- Indiana: Dr. Ada Simmons (Project Coordinator) and
Dr. Edward St. John (Systems Change Consultant)
- Nebraska: Courtney Miller (Project Coordinator)
and Tammy Bulleigh (Graduate Assistant)
Review Panel
Dr. George Sugai, Dr. Michael Nelson, Dr. Kevin Dwyer, and Trina Osher.
Other Contributors – Indiana
Susan Forde (Research Associate); Kristin Kohler (Research Assistant);
Shanna Ritter (Project Coordinator); Cindi Skoog (Indiana Site Coordinator),
Tony Wu (Research Associate); Janet McKelvey (Evaluation Assistant);
Angela Fontani (Research Assistant); Kimberly Boone (Research Assistant).
Other
Contributors – Nebraska
Thad Strom (Graduate Assistant); & Maria-Louisa Knobel (Nebraska Site
Coordinator)
Additional Site Contributors and Staff
See School Sites and Examples
Reece
L. Peterson, Ph.D. (Co-director)
Reece L. Peterson is Professor of Special Education at the University
of Nebraska–Lincoln specializing in the education of students with
emotional or behavioral disorders. He received his doctorate from the
University of Minnesota and bachelor’s degree from the University
of Chicago, and recently has taken courses in legal studies. His primary
interests include identification of and interventions for students with
emotional and behavioral disorders, student discipline in school, and
school violence prevention. Dr. Peterson is also interested in legal and
policy issues related to special education and children and families.
He has published articles in these areas, is co-author of a book on multicultural
issues in behavioral disorders, and has served as an editor and reviewer
for many journals. He has also served as President and Government Relations
Chair for the International Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders,
and is an affiliated faculty member of UNL’s Center on Children,
Families and the Law.
Reece L. Peterson, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Special Education & Communication Disorders
202A Barkley Center
Lincoln NE 68583-0732
402-472-7697
rpeterson1@unl.edu
Russell
Skiba, Ph.D. (Co-director)
Russell Skiba is Associate Professor in Counseling and Educational Psychology
at Indiana University. A member of the School Psychology faculty, he has
worked primarily in the areas of emotional and behavioral disorders and
school violence, and teaches and publishes in the areas of school violence,
zero tolerance and cultural diversity. Dr. Skiba has directed a number
of federally funded research projects and published extensively in professional
journals in the areas of school violence and equity in education. He is
currently Project Director of the Safe and Responsive Schools Project,
a U.S. Department of Education Projects of National Significance grant,
working with schools in two states to develop a school restructuring model
offering alternatives to zero tolerance for addressing issues of school
discipline and school violence. The Color of Discipline, his report on
African American disproportionality school suspension published by the
Indiana Education Policy Center, was featured at the Harvard Civil Rights
Project “Opportunities Suspended” conference, and was awarded
the Push for Excellence Award by the Rainbow Coalition/Operation PUSH.
His research on zero tolerance and minority diproportionality in discipline
has been featured in national media, including Time Magazine, USA Today,
the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the
Chicago Tribune and Nightline.
Russell J. Skiba, Ph.D.
Indiana Education Policy Center
Suite 170, Smithe Center for Research in Education
Indiana University
2805 E. 10th Street
Bloomington IN 47408-2698
812-855-5549
FAX: 812-855-0420
skiba@indiana.edu
Ada Simmons, Associate Director of the Indiana Education Policy Center coordinated the Indiana University portion of the SRS project as well as other operations of the Policy Center. Ada has assisted the project team in the development of materials to guide schools in creating and implementing plans for safe and civil schools, drawing on her educational and research background.
Dr. St. John, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University, has acted as the systems change consultant to the project. He helped initiate state Centers for Accelerated Schools in Ohio and Louisiana and served as a founding President of the Accelerated Schools Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. He recently co-authored Families in Schools: A Chorus of voices in Restructuring and co-edited Accelerated Schools in Action: Lessons From the Field (Corwin, 1996). Dr. St. John consulted on the extent to which project activities represent best practice in school restructuring and systems change.
Courtney Miller is a Doctoral Student in School Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is interested in group process and consultation, and is conducting doctoral research on school bullying. She has been involved with the Safe and Responsive Schools project for four years as Project Site Coordinator and Project Coordinator/Research Assistant. She received a B.A. from the University of South Dakota, a M.A. in Educational Psychology and an Educational Specialist degree in School Psychology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Tammy Bulleigh is a Masters Degree student seeking endorsement in deaf education. She worked with children in Kansas before coming to UNL for her Masters degree. Although her interests have been in deaf education, Tammy has been a strong contributor to the project by conducting background research, assisting with website design, uploading of files, editing documents and a myriad of other tasks for the project.
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