Elizabeth Bettini
What Schools Can Do about the Special Education Teacher Shortage
Students with disabilities need kind, empathic teachers to guide them throughout their educational career, but many school districts are struggling to recruit and retrain special education teachers. Inaccessible buildings, a lack of resources, isolation from other teachers, an unmanageable workload, and other inequities are all barriers that face special ed teachers who may be enthusiastic […]
Four BU Wheelock Faculty Promoted with Tenure
Four faculty members representing BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development’s Special Education, Literacy Education, Deaf Studies, and Science Education programs were recently promoted. Elizabeth Bettini, Katherine Frankel, Amy Lieberman, and Eve Manz all received the rank of associate professor with tenure. Elizabeth Bettini, Special Education Elizabeth Bettini is an associate professor in the […]
Partnership to Prepare Doctoral Students in Special Education and School Psychology
BU Wheelock’s special education faculty will collaborate with faculty from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) on a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish a cohort of doctoral students focused on advancing equity in the study of students’ mental health. The project, led by Jennifer Greif Green at Boston University […]
BU Wheelock Team Examines Self-Contained Special Education Classrooms
BU Wheelock’s Hannah Morris Mathews, Jennifer Lillis, and Elizabeth Bettini authored “Working Conditions and Special Educators’ Reading Instruction for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders,” a new paper that examines the factors shaping the effectiveness of teachers’ instruction in self-contained special education classrooms. The paper was published in Exceptional Children, the top educational research journal […]
Study Finds Disparities in Educational Placement for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Jennifer Greif Green and Elizabeth Bettini, BU Wheelock faculty in special education, coauthored a new study, “Associations of Sociodemographic Factors and Psychiatric Disorders With Type of School-Based Mental Health Services Received by Youth” in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Green and Bettini’s study found that traditionally underserved students, specifically Black and Latino students, are more […]
BU Wheelock Joins AACTE to Address Shortage of Special Education Teachers
Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development has joined a team of 11 peer colleges and universities collaborating on a project led by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) that seeks to examine ways of helping school districts address the critical need of recruiting and retaining special education teachers. The Reducing the […]
BU Wheelock and UConn Neag Partner to Prepare Doctoral Students
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $2.5 million in funding through its Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to special education faculty at BU Wheelock and UConn’s Neag School of Education for a project that will fully fund five doctoral students at each institution over the next five years. The partnership, Project LINC: Preparing […]
New Community Partnership Forged with Boston Public Schools
Assistant Professor of Special Education Elizabeth Bettini is part of a team that has been conducting research and providing professional development at McKinley Middle and McKinley Preparatory High School, two Boston Public Schools serving students with emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD). Bettini and fellow 2017 IES Grant Recipient Lindsay Fallon of UMass Boston have teamed […]