Wendy Murawski
Ph.D. Special Education, University of California Riverside, 2001.
Phone: 818.677.7037
Office: ED 2214
email: wendy.murawski@csun.edu
website: www.2TeachLLC.com
Specialization: Mild/Moderate Disabilities
Courses:
SPED 402A: Positive Behavior Support
SPED 506: Intern Seminar
SPED 508: Introduction to Special Education
SPED 611: Collaborative Processes in Special Education
SPED 612: Indirect Services in Special Education
SPED 683: Issues and Trends in Special Education
SPED 697: Comprehensive Exams in Special Education
SPED 698c: Thesis/Projects – Culminating Experience
Professional Interests:
Co-teaching, Collaboration, Inclusion, Teacher Education. Research interests center on the use of collaborative strategies to promote inclusive education for all students, to include students with disabilities and students who are gifted. The use of co-teaching as a service delivery model is the primary focus of Dr. Murawski’s research, publications, and national presentations.
Background:
Dr. Wendy Murawski is a tenured Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in Special Education at California State University, Northridge. Prior to working at the university level, Dr. Murawski was a secondary special educator, as well as a German teacher, in Virginia and California. Numerous years of successful co-teaching experience have led her to focus on collaboration, co-teaching and inclusion as her areas of interest and expertise. She is a national presenter with the Bureau of Education and Research on Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level and enjoys traveling and conducting staff development training. She is often requested to speak at schools, districts, conferences, and training seminars about her classroom experiences and her research in the area of co-teaching. Dr. Murawski is well published in the field, with book chapters, a textbook instructor’s guide, and many peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Teaching Exceptional Children, Remedial and Special Education, Reading and Writing Quarterly, Academic Exchange Quarterly, and Kappa Delta Pi Record among others. She has written a handbook on co-teaching entitled “Co-teaching for Success: Effective strategies for working together in today’s inclusive classrooms.” Dr. Murawski founded the educational consulting company 2 Teach, LLC (www.2TeachLLC.com) and co-founded the co-teaching software, the Co-Teaching Solutions System (www.coteachsolutions.com). She was also the recipient of the California Distinguished Teacher Educator of the Year award in 2004.