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Michelle M. Shinn, Ph.D. is an Elementary Principal and Executive Director of Student Services in Lake Forest, IL. In Lake Forest, she is the principal for an elementary school of 400 students grades K-4, and supervises the district psychologists, social workers, and implementation of Response to Intervention and School-Wide Behavior Support. She has worked for the over 15 years as a school psychologist, trainer, and administrator in urban, suburban, and rural school districts to facilitate educational change in both general and special education. Dr. Shinn is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) and received her doctoral degree in school psychology from the University of Oregon.
Dr. Shinn began her work in schools facilitating systems change in 1995 as the Lead Consultant/Trainer to the Massachusetts Urban Project's Student Assessment and System Renewal Initiative. In this role, she provided training and consultation to several large urban school districts in Massachusetts in the areas of problem solving and the use of scientifically-based assessment and instructional programs. Dr. Shinn began working at the University of Oregon in 1998, and served as project faculty for several federally funded grants awarded to the University of Oregon including the Early Childhood Research Institute (ECRI), Systems-Level Implementation of School-Wide Behavior Support, and Training School Psychologists Curriculum-Based Measurement and Problem-Solving Assessment. Wishing to return to public schools, Dr. Shinn began working in 2000 as an elementary school principal with the South Lane School District in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
As a principal and school psychologist, Dr. Shinn brings a unique perspective to the implementation of Response to Intervention and consults regularly with district administrative teams in Illinois and states across the country. Dr. Shinn has worked with state administrative organizations, including the Minnesota Elementary School Principal's Association (MESPA) and Minnesota Administrators of Special Education (MASE), to train and support school administrators in their roles as leaders in the implementation of service delivery systems that include data-based decision making, using scientifically-based programs and assessment, and improving outcomes for all students. Dr. Shinn co-designed the RTI/EIS training for the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) that was delivered to Indian Nations across the country by the Consortium on Reading Excellence (CORE). She also is writing an RtI implementation handbook for school administrators with CORE. Dr. Shinn, along with her school staff, was recently featured in a video titled, "RtI: Create Your Own Response to Intervention," produced by the Indiana University Forum on Education. |
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