EdFusion Solutions

Mason partnership seeks to enhance community college early childhood special education programs

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Mason group partners with nonprofit to help displaced students in Ukraine

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School of Education Faculty and Doctoral Candidate Partner with West Virginia Birth to Three to Make Early Intervention Services for Young Children More Equitable through Family-Centered Practice

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Special Education Faculty, Christan Coogle and Heather Walter, Are Co-Authors of a Book on Achieving Changes in Schools Through a Data-Informed Framework

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Christan Coogle, Associate Professor of Special Education, is Selected as Co-Editor of the prestigious journal Young Exceptional Children (YEC)

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Universal Design for Learning: Expression

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Universal Design for Learning: Engagement

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Universal Design for Learning: Representation

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News

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Teacher Tools

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Selected Journal Publications

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Coogle, C. G., Ottley, J. R., Storie, S., Rahn, N. L., & Burt, A. K. (2017). eCoaching to enhance special educator practice and child outcomes. Infants & Young Children, 30(1), 58-75. https://doi.org/10.1097/IYC.0000000000000082

Coogle, C., Rahn, N. L., Ottley, J. R., & Storie, S.* (2016). eCoaching across routines to enhance teachers’ use of modeling. Teacher Education and Special Education, 39(4), 227-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888406415621959

Coogle, C., Storie, S., & Rahn, N. L. (2022). A framework for promoting access, increasing participation, and providing support in early childhood classrooms. Early Childhood Education Journal, 50(5), 867-877. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-021-01200-6

Featured Books

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BCBA Supervision

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Dr. Pankiewicz (Coogle) is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with the supervision credential and has worked with individuals as well as groups to offer supervision within the workplace or by providing behavior analytic experiences.

Connect with Dr. Pankiewicz regarding individual or group supervision

Payment for Service

Contact for rates

Resources

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Common resources requests include:

Readings
Modules with presentations, activities, and reflections
Narrated presentations
Content for communities of practice

Partnerships

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Partnerships are unique opportunities to engage together to do a pulse check on the current system climate, identify goals, develop an action plan to achieve goals, implement coaching, engage in progress monitoring, and celebrating success together.

Are you interested and ready to move beyond one day professional developments and partner together to support school wide or system implementation? We’d love to engage in a partnership with you. Let’s begin the conversation here.

Workshops

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Workshops are hands-on and engaging events aligned with adult learning theory. Workshops can be delivered face-to-face, online, or hybrid. The most popular presentation and workshop topics include:

All Means All (inclusion)
Positive Behavior Support
Impactful Instruction
Multi-tiered Systems of Supports
Tier Two and Three Language and Literacy Intervention
Universal Design for Learning
Data-based Decision Making
Quality IEPs and IFSPs
Collaboration
High Leverage Practices
Division for Early Childhood Recommended Practices

Dr. Christan Pankiewicz

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Christan is the founder of EdFusion Solutions. She has partnered with school systems, community agencies, and state Part C systems nationally and internationally. Previously, a special education teacher, Part C early intervention provider, and a researcher at Florida Center for Reading Research, she now spends her time supporting educators, school systems, community agencies, and providing supervision to individuals and groups working toward their BCBA. Systems have sought Christan’s expertise related to positive behavior support, evidence-based interventions and service delivery, supporting diverse learners, assessment, student support plans, collaboration, and effective professional development implementation. Christan has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, and she has attended and presented at local, national, and international conferences. Christan is committed to partnering together to identify individualized and effective ways to support the use of research-based practices, ultimately, to improve outcomes for young children, students, and families.

Dr. Heather L Walter

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Heather L Walter, Ed.D, is an Assistant Professor of Special Education, a Senior Scholar for the Center for the Advancement of Wellbeing, and an Educational Consultant. Her expertise builds upon over 15 years in diverse education settings cultivating the unique strengths of individuals, and communities by partnering and providing support in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified educators and the wellbeing and sustainability of educational systems. Her primary goal is to support those who care for and educate children and youth in making evidence-based decisions that close the opportunity gap- that leads to thriving, and balanced educational outcomes. Walter is engaged in federally funded research, has published in both practitioner and research top tier journals, as well as sits on local, regional, and national education organizations. Dr. Walter has been recognized for the 2021 Dissertation Award in Mixed Methods for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and her contributions to policy research through the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) and won an Exhange Leaders Award through the Exchange Leaders Initiative in 2021.

Dr. Clarissa Wade

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Dr. Wade’s major research interests include supporting the behavioral and communication needs of children with developmental delays and examining pre-service teachers’ use of evidence-based practices. She is an Apple Teacher with Swift Playgrounds recognition.

Dr. Lisa Tullo

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Dr. Lisa Tullo is an Assistant Professor at George Mason Univerisety. She’s been a behavior consultant for public school districts across the mid-Atlantic region and a behavior analyst for and the owner of Choice Point, LLC, a consulting business. In addition to teaching classes like Principles and Procedures of ABA and Verbal Behavior, Dr. Tullo is heavily involved in George Mason University’s Division of Special Education and disAbility Research.