{"id":72591,"date":"2024-08-22T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=72591"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:30:56","slug":"elizabeth-bettini","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/elizabeth-bettini\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Bettini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"-ZV-563 \" aria-label=\"4. Official Bio (Please aim for 100 \u2013 150 words; include any center or institute appointments) Multi Line Text Required to answer \">\n<div class=\"-CC-597 \" data-automation-id=\"questionContent\">\n<div class=\"-Kq-599 \">\n<div class=\"--iJ-613\">\n<div class=\"-FH-616\">Dr. Bettini is an expert in the challenges facing the special education workforce &#8211; including the shortage, high attrition rates, and inequities across schools &#8211; and factors shaping those challenges. Her work particularly focuses on how working conditions could be leveraged to strengthen the special education workforce. Her work has been funded by &gt;$14M in federal grants and published in &gt;65 peer-reviewed publications. She is affiliated with the Wheelock Education Policy Institute and the Wheelock Institute for the Science of Education. She currently serves as Co-Director for the SPARC Center (Special Education Workforce: A Research Collaborative Center), an IES-funded mixed-methods research center; PI for Project RESPECT, an IES-funded study to develop a measure of special educators&#8217; working conditions; Co-PI for Project SUSTAIN, an IES-funded study to develop an intervention to improve special educators&#8217; working conditions in self-contained settings for students with emotional\/behavioral disorders; PI for Project LINC, an OSEP-funded grant to prepare 10 new doctoral scholars in interventions and complex systems at BU and UConn; and Co-PI for Project TEAMS, an OSEP-funded grant to prepare 9 new doctoral scholars to advance equity in mental health, at BU and UC Santa Barbara.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"-ZV-563 \" aria-label=\"5. Areas of Expertise\u00a0(We recommend listing three and no more than five in concise searchable terms. Ex: first Amendment, women in politics, American politics) Single line text Required to answer \"><button role=\"button\" class=\"--gg-594\" aria-label=\"5. Question title Areas of Expertise\u00a0(We recommend listing three and no more than five in concise searchable terms. Ex: first Amendment, women in politics, American politics) Single line text Required to answer\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-automation-id=\"questionWrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"-CC-597 \" data-automation-id=\"questionContent\">\n<div id=\"QuestionId_rac35a93a66d44ab3a24c6d2d0b6dc68d\" class=\"-oj-602\">\n<div class=\"-uR-603\" data-automation-id=\"questionTitle\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":23087,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72593,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72591\/revisions\/72593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}