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Mary Theresa Kiely, PhD<\/p>\n

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Office Information:\u00a0<\/strong>
032C Powdermaker Hall
phone: 718-997-5233
Website:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Education\/Degree:\u00a0<\/strong>
Ph.D. University of Florida<\/p>\n

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Mary Theresa Kiely, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Special Education in the Department of Educational and Community Programs.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kiely supports teachers in developing knowledge and skills for instruction, assessment and intervention of students with disabilities with an emphasis on using current peer-reviewed research in special education and literacy. Her scholarship focuses on teacher cognition and learning in the areas of writing and literacy related to supporting students with disabilities in both general and special education settings in diverse schools. Dr. Kiely has taught classes in curriculum and instruction for students with disabilities in literacy and the content areas, assessment, foundations, research and practicum in both adolescent and elementary teacher education programs.<\/p>\n

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Professional Activities – selected<\/p>\n

Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Research, Co-Chair and founder of the Doctoral Student Scholars Program, 2008-present<\/p>\n

Council for Exceptional Children, Educators with Disabilities Affinity Group, Executive Board and Co-Chair, 2018-present<\/p>\n

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Selected Publications<\/p>\n

Kiely, M. T., & Geskie, J. (2026). Teachers\u2019 beliefs about students with disabilities. In M. G. Gill & H. Fives (Eds.), International handbook of research on teachers\u2019 beliefs<\/em> (2nd ed.). Routledge. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003462217-27<\/p>\n

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Mary Theresa Kiely, PhDAssociate Professor of Special Education

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  • \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\uf0e0<\/span><\/span>Mary.Theresa.Kiely@qc.cuny.edu<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>Office Information:\u00a0032C Powdermaker Hallphone: 718-997-5233Website:Education\/Degree:\u00a0Ph.D. University of FloridaMary Theresa Kiely, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Special Education in the Department of Educational and Community Programs. Dr. Kiely supports teachers in developing knowledge and skills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[131],"class_list":["post-10161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}