Michael W. Dunn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Special Education & Literacy
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue
VUCB, Room 331
Vancouver, WA 98686
Office Phone: 360.546.9662
Office Fax: 360.546.9040
Email: dunnmi@vancouver.wsu.edu
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Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Ph.D., Special
Education/Literacy, Degree Awarded 2005
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
M.A.Ed., Literacy
Education, Degree Awarded 2002
Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario
Additional Qualifications in English as a Second Language (1994), Primary Classroom (1995), and Special Education (Learning Disabilities) (1997)
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
B.Ed., Second-Language Education, Degree Awarded 1991
B.A., Political Science, Degree Awarded 1988
Centre universitaire de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick
French Immersion, Certificate Awarded 1989
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE
Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington
Assistant Professor,
Special Education and Literacy, 2005-present
Teach courses at the
undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level: Education of Exceptional Children, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Assessment and Curriculum for Students with Disabilities, Inclusion Strategies for Special Education Teachers, Prevention and Remediation of Reading Disabilities,
Teaching in Inclusive Classrooms, Response-to-Intervention Practices Across the Core Academic Curriculum, and Single Subject Design. Conduct research in literacy skills/strategies and special education assessment (e.g., response to intervention [RTI]). Direct the special education program at the
Vancouver campus of Washington State University.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Associate
Instructor/Field Experience Supervisor, 2002-2005
Taught courses in the
special education and language education departments. Supervised
students in their practicum placements in public schools.
Researcher, Summer 2004
Research assistant for
a reading comprehension strategy project at the rock Reading Clinic. Managed the data sets of
collected data. Filled in for undergraduate student tutors in the
intervention program on an as-needed basis.
Researcher, Summer 2003
Created and completed a
research study at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community about classroom teachers’ referral criteria for special
education services.
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, Mississauga, Ontario
Elementary/Middle School Teacher, 1991-2002
Taught as a Special Education Consultant Teacher
in Inclusion Classrooms, English as a Second Language, French as a
Second Language, and Senior Kindergarten Teacher.
Program Facilitator,
1998-1999
Provided in-service training to school staff and collected data about
curriculum programming.
Education Quality and
Accountability Office, Toronto, Ontario
Group Leader of the
Grade 6 Reading Assessments, July 2002
Participated in
training and overseeing 20 teacher markers who were scoring the Grade 6 Reading
standardized assessments.
Marker of the Grade 3
Math
Assessments, July of 1998, 1999, and 2001
Participated in the
marking of the Grade 3 Math standardized assessments.
Peer/Blind Reviewed: In Press
Dunn, M. W., Tudor, D., Scattergood, C., & Closson, S. (In press for late 2010). Ask, reflect, text: ART as a narrative story-writing strategy. Childhood Education. Manuscript accepted for publication.
Peer/Blind Reviewed: Published in Print
Dunn, M. W. (2010). Defining Learning Disability: Does IQ have anything significant to say? Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 16(1), 31-38.
Marino, M. T., Coyne, M. D., & Dunn, M. W. (2010). Technology-based curricula: How altered readability levels affect struggling readers’ passage comprehension. Journal of Computing in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 29(1), 31-49.
Dunn, M. W., Cole, C. M., Estrada. A. X. (2009). Referral criteria for special education: Canadian and American general education teachers’ perspectives. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 28(1), 28-35.
Manset-Williamson, G., Dunn, M., Hinshaw, R., & Nelson, J. (2008). The impact of self-questioning strategy use on the text-reader assisted comprehesnion of students with reading disabilities. International Journal of Special Education, 23(1), 123-135.
Dunn, M., & Finley, S. (2008). Thirsty Thinkers: A workshop for artists and writers. Journal of Reading Education, 33(2), 28-36.
Dunn, M. W. (2007). Diagnosing reading disability: Reading Recovery as a component of a response to intervention assessment method. Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 5(2), 31-47.
Dunn, M. W. (2006). It was written all over him: Classroom teachers’ referral criteria for special education services. International Journal of Special Education, 21(2), 124-139.
Elder-Hinshaw, R., Manset-Williamson, G., Nelson, J., & Dunn, M. (2006). Older students with reading disabilities: Multimedia inquiry projects using reading assistive technology. Teaching Exceptional Children, 39(1), 6-11.
Butera, G., & Dunn, M. (2005). The case for cases in preparing special educators for rural schools. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 24(2), 22-27.
Invited Book Chapter: in Press
Dunn, M. W. (in press for spring 2010). Response to intervention: Assistive technologies which can help teachers with intervention programming and assessment. In S. Seok & D. Deshler. (Eds.) Handbook of research on human cognition and assistive technology: Design, accessibility and transdisciplinary perspectives. New York: IGI Global. (Peer reviewed). Book chapter accepted for publication.
Invited Book Chapter
Dunn, M. W., & Walker, T. (2007). Assessment of ELL students with disabilities. In F. Pawan & G. Butler (Eds.), Collaborative partnerships between ESL and classroom teachers: Helping English Language Learners succeed in middle and high school (pp. 103-116). Alexandria, VA: TESOL Publications. (Peer reviewed).
Conference Proceedings
Dunn, M. W., & Butera, G. (2004). Using case studies in pre-service special education teacher preparation. American Council on Rural Special Education Conference Proceedings, 144-150.
Dunn, M. W. (2009, April 4). Response to intervention: Effective instruction and assessment with assistive technology. Poster presentation at the Council for Exceptional Children Annual Convention, Seattle, Washington.
Dunn, M. W. (2009, February 26). Response to intervention: Effective instruction and assessment with assistive technology. Presentation at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dunn, M. W. (2009, February 25). Classifying English Language Learners with a learning disability: An RTI/multiple intelligences approach. Presentation at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dunn, M. W., & Mabry, L. (2008, April 4). Response to intervention: Perspectives about effectiveness. Lecture Presentation at the Council for Exceptional Children Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dunn, M. W. (2008, February 28). RTI and LD: Does IQ have anything significant to say? Research Poster Session at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
Dunn, M. W., Clayton, S., Scattergood, C., & Tudor, D. (2008, February 28). Ask, reflect, text (ART): A Strategy for narrative story writing. Discussion Session at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
Dunn, M. W. (2007, May 14). A strategy for reading disability diagnosis in a response to intervention model. Discussion session at the International Reading Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario.
Dunn, M. W. (2007, February 15). Reading Recovery components for reading disability identification. Research Poster Session at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dunn, M. W. (2006, April 9). Diagnosing disability through response-to-intervention: Reading Recovery as a predictor of reading disabilities. Poster Presentation at the American Educational Research Conference (Special Interest Group: Special Education Research), San Francisco, California.
Dunn, M. W. (2005, May 21) The Construction of a learner as being at risk. Round table discussion on literacy issues of learners who are at risk at the Jerome Harste/Carolyn Burke Retirement Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.
Dunn, M. W., & Cole, C. M. (2005, April 11). Key referral criteria of classroom teachers: Flagging students who are different. Discussion Paper at the American Educational Research Conference (Special Interest Group: Special Education Research), Montréal, Québec.
Manset-Williamson, G., Elder-Hinshaw, R., Nelson, J., & Dunn, M. (2005, April 15). Older students with reading disabilities: Multimedia inquiry projects using reading assistive technology. Discussion Paper at the American Educational Research Conference (Special Interest Group: Special Education Research), Montréal, Québec.
Dunn, M. W. (2004, November 20). The later literacy program: Assisting grades 4-8 readers who are at risk. Workshop presented at the Indiana Council for Exceptional Children Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.
Manset-Williamson, G., Elder-Hinshaw, R., Nelson, J., & Dunn, M. (2004, November 20). Assistive technology and prompts: Impacting comprehension skills of students with reading disabilities. Workshop presented at the Indiana Council for Exceptional Children Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.
Dunn, M. W., & Butera, G. (2004, March 19). Using case studies in pre-service special education teacher preparation. Workshop presented at the American Council on Rural Special Education (ACRES) Conference, Orlando, Florida.
National
Children and Youth Action Network Committee Member, Council for Exceptional Children, 2005-present
State
Association of Trainers of Special Education Personnel (ATSEP) Member, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Washington State, 2005-2007
Campus
Committee Member for selecting Student Scholarship Recipients, 2007-present
College of Education
College of Education Assessment Committee, 2009-present
College of Education Staff Excellence Award Selection Committee Member, 2008-2010
Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee Member, 2006-2008
Department of Teaching and Learning
Special Education Search Committee Member, 2005-2006
Vancouver Education Department
Chair of the Research Committee, 2010-present
Vancouver Education Unit Representative on the Southwest Washington Autism Center Planning Committee, 2007-present
Ed.M. Committee Member, 2005-present
Marketing Committee Member, 2006-2008
Local
Evergreen School District (Vancouver, Washington), Response to Intervention Committee Member, 2006-2007
External
Dunn, M., & Berninger, V. (2009). Writing first: Helping struggling writers improve their narrative story and expository writing skills. [Grant proposal submitted to the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C., $2,223,041. Not funded].
Berninger, V., & Dunn, M. (2009). Learning to compose via contrasting transcription modes (pen or keyboard). [Grant proposal submitted to the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C., $1,499,987. Not funded].
Dunn, M. (2009). Students' illustrating pre-writing story ideas as a means to produce elaborate text. [Grant funding from the Lematta Foundation, Vancouver, Washington, $12,000].
Dunn, M., & Berninger, V. (2008). Writing first: Helping struggling writers improve their narrative story and expository writing skills. [Grant proposal submitted to the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C., $2,223,859. Not funded].
Dunn, M. (2008). Ask, reflect, text: Exploring early-elementary students' use of the ART story-writing strategy. [Grant funding from the Lematta Foundation, Vancouver, Washington, $12,000].
Dunn, M. (2007). Ask, reflect, text (ART): A response to intervention strategy for assessing learning disabilities in writing. [Grant proposal submitted to the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C., $584,077. Not funded].
Grigar, D., Dunn, M., & Gibson, S. (Co-Principal Investigators). (2007). The MINDful play environment. [Grant proposal submitted to the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Il., $250,000. Not funded.].
Dunn, M. (2007). Sketch to text: A strategy for narrative story writing. [Grant funding from the Lematta Foundation, Vancouver, Washington, $10,000].
Dunn, M. (2006). Using assistive technology to improve students' writing skills [Grant funding from the Fred Meyer Foundation, Vancouver, Washington, $2350.48].
Dunn, M. (2006). Using the ART strategy to improve students' writing skills [Grant funding from the Lematta Foundation, Vancouver, Washington, $10,000].
Dunn, M. (2006). CoWriter:SOLO writing-assistance software [Grant funding from the Don Johnson, Inc., Volo, Il., $7,889.25].
Dunn, M. (2005). Literacy intervention program. [Grant proposal submitted to the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington, $8,253. Not funded.]
Internal
Dunn, M. (2009). Response to intervention: A professional development and implementation model for general education teachers. [Grant proposal submitted to the Washington State University College of Education, $4,000. Not funded].
Dunn, M. (2009). Ask, reflect, text: Does the use of art during pre-writing help students write more elaborate text? [Grant funding from Washington State University Vancouver, $3,000].
Dunn, M. (2008). Inclusion classroom writing-skills instruction: Teachers’ perspectives about effective instruction. [Grant funding from the Washington State University College of Education, $5,000].
Dunn, M. (2007). Alhadeff teachers of teachers faculty award. [Grant funding from the Washington State University College of Education, $1,500].
Dunn, M. (2007). Response to intervention: Is it an effective strategy for diagnosing learning disabilities in writing? [Washington State University Vancouver Mini-Grant Competition, $4,500. Not funded.]
Dunn, M. (2006). Literacy intervention program [Grant funding from the Washington State University College of Education. $5,000].
Dunn, M. (2006). Improving writing skills with assistive technology [Grant funding from Washington State University Vancouver, $1,850].
Dunn, M. (2005). Alhadeff teachers of teachers recruitment award. [Grant funding from the Washington State University College of Education, $1,000].
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
International
International Dyslexia Association
International Reading Association
Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading
National
Council for Exceptional Children
Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children
Learning Disabilities Association of America
Council for Learning Disabilities
American Educational Research Association
National Council of the Teachers of English
State
Learning Disabilities Association of Washington