Faculty
Loretta (Lucky) Mason-Williams
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education
Educational Background
- PhD in Special Education, University of Maryland
- MEd in Reading Specialist, Loyola College, Baltimore
- BS in Special Education/Elementary Education, University of Dayton
Teaching Profession Courses Regularly Taught
- Special Education for Content Area Teachers
- Assessment and Instructional Methods for Special Education Teachers
- Behavior Analysis and Classroom Management
Current Research Interests
- Special education teacher preparation, recruitment, retention, and distribution
- Secondary data analysis
- Economics of Education
Selected Publications
- Maccini, P., Gagnon, J.C., & Mason-Williams, L. (accepted). Mathematics in Juvenile Corrections: Curricular and Assessment Policies and Practices. Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal.
- Wilkerson, K. L., Gagnon, J.C., & Mason-Williams, L. (submitted).Reading instruction for students with high incidence disabilities in juvenile corrections. Preventing School Failure.
- Skoning, S.N., & Mason-Williams, L. (submitted). Teaching vocabulary through danceand movement activities: What are the outcomes for children? Journal ofResearch in Childhood Education.
- Hankes, J., Skoning, S.N., Fast, G., Mason-Williams, L., Beam, J., & Mickelson, W. (2011). Closing the mathematics achievement gap of Native American studentsidentified as learning disabled. In Gregory (ed.), Voices of Native American Indian Educators: Integrating History, Culture and Language to Improve Learning Outcomes for Native American Indian Students. Lanham, MD:University Press of America.
- Leone, P.E., Krezmien, M., Mason, L., & Meisel, S.M. (2005). Organizing and delivering empirically-based literacy instruction to incarcerated youth. Exceptionality, 13(2), 89-102.
