Dr. Linda Blanton - College of Education - Florida International ...

FACULTY
ACADEMIC PROFILE
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
L I N D A BLANTON
P R O F E S S O R
A C A D E M I C APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Special Education
Graduate Faculty; Dissertation Advisor
P R O G R A M AFFILIATIONS
Department of Teaching and Learning
E D U C A T I O N
Post Doc (1984) University of CA at Santa Barbara, Special Education
Ed.D. (1974) Indiana University, Special Education/Educational Psy
C O N T A C T
O FFICE
ZEB 244B
A D D R E S S 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199-0001
P H O N E
E - MAIL
blantonl@fiu.edu
W EB L I N K S
S U M M A R Y PROFILE
Dr. Blanton has been actively involved in education for over forty years. She has been a classroom teacher,
demonstration teacher for university programs, and university professor and administrator. Dr. Blanton has served in
numerous leadership and administrative roles in universities in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia, to include dean of a
college of education (Florida International University), director of a school of education, chair of a department of special
education, director of a Center on Excellence in Teacher Education, and director of an interdisciplinary doctoral program.
Also, she has served in state and national leadership roles, two examples of which are (a) President of the Teacher
Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children and (b) Chairperson of the Consortium of Special Education
Programs in North Carolina. Dr. Blanton served on the Board of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE) and worked with the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) to
develop standards for what all teachers need to know and be able to do when working with students with disabilities. Dr.
Blanton has written and directed numerous federal grants, published articles/research on a variety of topics in special
education, been as associate editor for several noted journals in special education (e.g., Exceptional Children), reviewed
for journals outside her field of special education (e.g., American Educational Research Journal; Journal of Teacher
Education), and presented extensively at national, state, and local conferences and meetings. In addition, she has served
on many site visit teams for federal agencies and professional organizations, and has been a member of many panels,
councils, and committees at national, state, and local levels. Dr. Blanton is co-editor of a published book, Teacher
Education in Transition: Collaborative Programs to Prepare General and Special Educators, and co-author of a recently
completed action guide, Collaborative Programs in General and Special Teacher Education: An Action Guide for Higher
Education and State Policymakers. Dr. Blanton was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching and Teacher Education
Award, a major award given in special education by Merrill Education, Prentice Hall and the Teacher Education Division of
the Council for Exceptional Children.
INTERESTS
Teaching and Teacher Education, with a focus area on the intersection of general education and

special education teacher education.
S E L E C T E D ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
F A C U L T Y
Professor, Special Education, FIU, 1999-present
Dean, College of Education, FIU, 1999-2006
S E L E C T E D COURSES T AUGHT
EEX 7933 Seminar in Special Education (Doctoral course)
EEX 6912/EEX 6228 Action Research (Year-long required Masters courses)
S ELECTED P R O F E S S I O N A L & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Member, Search Committee, Editor of Teacher Education and Special Education, September 2008-April 2009.
Member, IRTE Board of International Review, Center for Quality Assurance in
International Education, Washington, D.C., 2004-present. Worked with the United Emirates
University (Al Ain, UAE), Qatar University (Doha, Qatar), Catholic University (Santiago, Chile)
S ELECTED S C H O L A R L Y A N D PROFESSIONAL WORK
S E L E C T E D REFEREED JOURNAL A R T I C L E S, BOOK C HAPTERS
Blanton, L. P., & Perez, Y. (2011). Exploring the relationship between special education teachers and professional learning
communities: Implications of research for administrators, Journal of Special Education Leadership, 24(1).
Pugach, M. C., & Blanton, L. P. (2009). A framework for conducting research on collaborative teacher education.
Teaching and Teacher Education, 1-8.
S E L E C T E D BOOKS
Blanton, L. P., & Pugach, M. C. (2007). Collaborative programs in general and special teacher education: An action guide
for higher education and state policymakers. Washington, D. C.: Council of Chief State School Officers.
Blanton, L. P., Griffin, C. C., Winn, J. A., & Pugach, M. C. (Eds.) (1997). Teacher education in transition: Collaborative
programs to prepare general and special educators. Denver, CO: Love Publishing Company.
S E L E C T E D OTHER P U B L I C A T I O N S
Pugach, M.C., Blanton, L. P., Correa, V. L., McLeskey, J., & Langley, L. (2009). The role of collaboration in supporting the
induction and retention of new special education teachers, Gainesville, FL: National Center to Inform Policy and
Practice in Special Education Professional Development (NCIPP).
Blanton, L. (February, 2008). Louisiana teacher educators influence policy, programs in special education, Policy Briefs,
29(2). Newsletter of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE).
S E L E C T E D REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS
Interrogating the Meaning of Collaboration between General and Special Education in Merged Teacher Education Program
Curricula. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, Colorado,
May 3, 2010. (with M. Pugach)

Diversity Struggles in Teacher Education: Where Does Special Education Belong Invited Major Forum presented at the
American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, February 21, 2010. (with M.
Pugach, M. Cochran-Smith, J. Jordan Irvin, A.Villegas, L. Florian, J. West)
S E L E C T E D RESEARCH & EVALUATION R EPORTS
Chair, Arizona Board of Regents Program Review, Department of Special Education, College of Teacher Education and
Leadership, Arizona State University, April, 2007.
S ELECTED R E C E N T SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIP
CO- P R I N C I P A L
I N V E S T I G A T O R
Project CREATE: Collaborative Redesign for Effectiveness Across Teacher Education;
USDE, Office of Special Education Programs, No. H325T070021, $499,746 (5 years –
2007-2012).
P R I N C I P A L
I N V E S T I G A T O R
Project EDUCATE: Empowering Diverse Change Agents Through
Education; USDE, Office of Special Education Programs; CFDA
84.325D, $1,104,768 (4 years – 2011-2014)
S ELECTED R E C O G N I T I O N
TED/Merrill Excellence in Teaching and Teacher Education Award, Teacher Education Division of the Council for
Exceptional Children, 1999.