Dr. Kimber Wilkerson

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Kimber L. Wilkerson is a professor and department chair in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in teacher preparation for those instructing students with disabilities to improve their long-term academic and social outcomes. Dr. Wilkerson investigates supports designed to retain special educators in both rural and urban schools and is the principal investigator of a research grant from the Institute of Education Sciences aimed at developing and examining virtual coaching for rural special educators. Her collaborative residency program with Milwaukee Public Schools is funded by the Teacher Quality Partnership grant. Dr. Wilkerson has directed teacher preparation programs and currently serves as co-principal investigator on master's level personnel preparation grants and as principal investigator on a doctoral leadership grant. She is a member of the Networked Improvement Community convened by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, focusing on strategies to address the chronic shortage of special educators. Dr. Wilkerson has extensive experience as a special educator and also served as associate dean of teacher education and past president of the Wisconsin Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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