Nikki Miller
Ed.D., University of San Francisco
Curriculum and Instruction Projects Coordinator, Region 4 Training and Technical Assistance Center
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus
Krug Hall 213B
4400 University Dr.
MS 1F2
Fairfax, VA 22030
Profile
Dr. Nikki Miller is a Curriculum Coordinator for T/TAC and provides inservice training opportunities for Virginia Region 4 schools. She participates on Academic Review teams for VDOE. As a member of the GMU special education faculty, she also teaches courses in special education and literacy. Dr. Miller completed an Ed.D in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of San Francisco. Her dissertation research examined listening and reading comprehension with inner city fifth graders from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She received a Master's Degree in Communication Disorders/ Speech Pathology at Ohio State University and a BA in Elementary Education and Special Education /Speech and Language at the University of Denver.
Dr. Miller has extensive teaching experience as a special education teacher in K-12 urban public schools. As an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco, she taught a wide range of special education credential, master's, and doctoral courses. Her areas of emphasis were reading and literacy skills, special education topics, applied behavioral programming and functional assessment, research methods, and psychological foundations. She developed, with colleagues, a collaborative on-the-job training program to recruit, train and retain special education teachers in Bay Area inner city school districts. She has been the Director of the Special Education Program and Fieldwork Supervision Coordinator in both Special Education and Teacher Education while at USF. She has also co-written and been a co-director of several grants from the Office of Special Education Projects (OSEP) to support the training of special education teacher candidates from underrepresented groups. Dr. Miller served on the Partnership Committee for Special Education to develop goals and action plans for the California State Improvement Plan. She also scored protocols for the California state reading assessment (RICA).
Research Interests
- Language and Literacy
- Reading and Listening Comprehension
- Teacher Education
Recent Publications
- Andrews,L., Evans, S., & Miller,N. (Summer 2002) How can we prepare and retain effective special education teachers? 6(2), 26-42. Academic Exchange.
- Andrews, L., Evans,S., Miller,N. & Smith, S. (2003) An internship model to recruit, train, and retain special educators for culturally diverse urban classrooms. Teacher Education and Special Education.
- Evans, S. Andrews, L., Miller N.,& h, S. (2003) An alternative model for preparing special education teacher educators. Teacher Education and Special Education.