Experts

Dawn Miller, Ph.D., is the Innovative Projects Facilitator for the Shawnee Mission Public Schools. In this role, Dawn serves as a district team member leading planning, staff development, implementation, and evaluation for response-to-intervention efforts around academic and behavior supports. Prior to joining Shawnee Mission, she served as a project director for statewide implementation of the problem-solving process and developing a tiered system of support for literacy. As part of the statewide efforts, she was involved with a statewide committee which led state regulation changes regarding child find and eligibility and has helped to translate these changes into district procedural changes linked to the School Improvement Process. Dawn has applied her skills to work as a special education teacher, a school psychologist, adjunct faculty member for administrative programs in Kansas, and district and building consultant/trainer. She has authored or coauthored published work regarding the problem-solving process, assessing written language, and family communication and involvement.