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Expertise

Special education; improving educator pedagogy; improving educators cultural intelligence; diversity & inclusion trainer; competency based education

Research Interests

Disproportionate discipline rates; Teacher attitudes towards students; The impact of traditional study abroad and virtual international exchange experiences on preservice teachers鈥� cultural intelligence; Supporting education systems in developing countries; The social solidarity economy and education.

Education

Ed.D.: Leadership and Learning:听Dissertation Title: An Analysis of Teacher Response to Students Based on White Racial Identity Status and Attitudes (2016), Rivier University, Nashua, NH
M.Ed.: Educational Administration: Thesis Title: The Creation of a Comprehensive Transition Program for Successful Middle School Transition (2007), Rivier University, Nashua, NH
BA.: Education, Elementary (K-6) and Special Education (K-12), (2002), Rivier University, Nashua, NH

Biosketch

Colleen Tapley, Ph.D., has worked for over twenty years in the field of education and has experience at the elementary, middle and administrative levels, as well as in special education. Tapley is passionate about improving educator pedagogy through innovative research-based practices. Her research interests include issues of equity and access, disproportionate discipline rates and improving educators' cultural intelligence through both traditional and virtual study abroad experiences.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Delegate for Oxford University Oxford International Round Table Symposium: Educational Trends and Issues, Oxford University, 2023
• Excellence in Advising Award, Southern New Hampshire University 2019
• Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Southern New Hampshire University 2016, 2018, 2022
• Awarded Distinction for Dissertation and Defense Rivier University 2016

Selected Publications

• Tapley, C. (2016). 鈥淎n Analysis of Teacher Response to Students Based on White Racial Identity Status and Attitudes.鈥� Dissertation.
• Clamp & Tapley (April 2023) Social Solidarity Economy and the Education Sector. IN Yi, I. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social and Solidarity Economy. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

Selected Presentations

• 鈥淢aximizing Project Based Learning for Neurodiverse Learners鈥漚t the Eurasia Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education in October 2023
• 鈥淓ngaging Preservice Teachers in Project Based Learning to Improve Pedagogy and Student Outcomes鈥� and 鈥淟iberatory Design Thinking and Virtual International Exchange as a Tool for Dismantling Inequities in Education and Improving Cultural Intelligence鈥� at the Oxford International Roundtable on Education July 2023
• 鈥淧reparing Preservice Teachers to Solve for Inequities Using Liberatory Design鈥� University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching (Collective Transformation: How Blended and Online Learning Have Changed Postsecondary Education), 2023
• 鈥淧reparing Pre-service Teachers to Implement Project Based Learning鈥� Belize International Symposium on Education, 2023
• 鈥淒esigning for Equity in a Virtual Environment: How Faculty from Spain and America Created Partnership to Disrupt Inequities in Education鈥� at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, 2022
• 鈥淪trategies for Inclusive Discipline Focusing on Social Emotional Growth鈥� at the Innovative Schools Summit, 2022
• 鈥淓ducation and the Social Solidarity Economy鈥� CIRIEC International Congress, 2022
• 鈥淪upporting Special Education Students During Learning Disruptions鈥� at Council for Administrators of Special Education in November 2020 Attending ASCD Trauma Symposium October, 2020
• 鈥淭eacher Identity and Attitudes: Strategies for Disrupting Inequity in Education鈥� at the 2018 National Summit for Educational Equity
• 鈥淲ho Am I? Exploring Learner Identity and Biases to Disrupt Inequity in Education鈥� at the 2017 Learner Research Network International Conference

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

• Improving Student Engagement Through a Learning Fellows Initiative- Davis Educational Foundation, Southern New Hampshire University, 2018