Biography

Emily Klein is a member of both the IDEA team and the Multilingual Learners team at RIDE in the Office of Student, Community, and Academic Support and has been with RIDE since 2004. At RIDE, her work includes disproportionality in special education, multilingual learners with disabilities, tiered prevention and intervention frameworks including MTSS, and the State Systemic Improvement Plan to improve math outcomes for children with disabilities through Data-Based Individualization (DBI). Emily is a member of the CEEDAR State Leadership Team as well as the State Personnel Development Grant management team. Emily is committed to promoting the educational achievement of culturally and linguistically diverse students, with and without disabilities, by building the capacity of school and district leadership and educational staff to provide rigorous educational opportunities grounded in evidence-based practices. Prior to working at RIDE, Emily taught multilingual learners with disabilities in an urban middle school in RI. Mrs. Klein holds a Master of Education in Special Education from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the Allegheny College plus additional graduate work in Service Learning as well as Urban Multicultural Special Education at RIC resulting in an ESL teaching extension.