B.S., B.Ed., M.Ed., Osmania University, India
Ph.D. Regional Institute of Education – Mysore. India
Srimani Chakravarthi is a Professor at the College of Education in University of St. Francis, in Joliet, Illinois. She has a Ph. D. from the Regional Institute of Education in Mysore (India) in the area of Developmental Language Disorders in Learning Disabilities. She is involved in teacher training since 2007 at the University, preparing teachers to teach diverse learners in the classroom.
Dr. Chakravarthi was the Project Director for three federal grants from the U. S. Department of Education – the 325T grant from the Office of Special Education Services (OSEP) between 2008 to 2013, to improve quality of teacher training and two other grants from Doing What Works (Institute of Educational Sciences, IES), to improve the use of Evidence-based practices in instruction (2012-2015). Srimani has presented at varied national and international conferences in special education and teacher education. She also provides professional development to faculty in local schools and school districts. Her publications and research focus on universal design for learning, intervention research, teacher education and inclusive education.
Dr. Chakravarthi is passionate about STEM fields and coaches middle and high school students for Science competitions. The teams have won several state level and national level awards, including attending the White House Science Fair in 2016. She fosters a great love for travel as a form of education and has received scholarships to a pilgrimage in Assisi and faculty exchange program in Finland, among other grant-funded presentations nationally and internationally.
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