Research interests
SusanRae Banks-Joseph conducts research on indigenous family involvement in education, early childhood special education, culturally responsive curriculum development and delivery, culturally responsive assessment, and Native teacher preparation and retention.
Teaching/professional interests
Banks-Joseph teaches Early Childhood Special Education, Assessment and Curriculum for Students with Disabilities, Multicultural Issues in Special Education, Inclusion Strategies for Special Education Teachers, Teaching Students with Intense Needs, and Special Education Law and Professionalism. Banks-Joseph also has varied experience in the pre-K through high school realm of education, teaching birth-to-three programs, an integrated pre-school program, an elementary resource and inclusion program, and high school community-based transition programs as well as initial experience within an institutional setting for children and adults who were medically fragile. Banks-Joseph is a member of the National Indian Education Association, the American Education Research Association, and the Council for Exceptional Children.
Recent accomplishments
Shawer S.F., Gilmore, D., & Banks-Joseph, S. R. (In review, 2007). Student cognitive and affective development in the context of classroom-level curriculum development. Journal of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning.
Inglebret, E., Banks, S.R., Pavel, M., Friedlander, R. & Stone, M.L. (2007). Case Study
VII:Multimedia curriculum development based on the oral tradition. Information Technology and Indigenous People, pp. 23-25. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc.
Banks-Joseph, S.R., & McCubbin, L. D. (2006). American Indian and Alaska Native early childhood family involvement: A review of the literature. In Thompson, N. L., Faircloth, S., & Schafft, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Rural Early Childhood Forum on American Indian and Alaska Native Early Learning (pp. 132-154). Mississippi State, MS: National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives, Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute.
Banks-Joseph, S.R. (2006). In Online Video, An Historic Ingathering: The Rural Early Childhood Forum on American Indian and Alaska Native Early Learning. http://ruralec.msstate.edu/initiatives/native.htm
Banks, S.R., & Miller, D. (2005). Empowering Indigenous families who havechildren with disabilities: An innovative outreach model. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(2).
Banks, S.R. (2004). Voices of tribal parents/caregivers who have children with special needs. Multiple Voices: Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 7(1), 33-47.
Pavel, D. M., Banks, S., & Pavel, S. (2002).The OKSALE story: Training teachers forschools serving American Indians and Alaska Natives. Journal of American Indian Education, 41 (2), 38-47.
Banks, S.R. (2006). Current Research in Special Education: Panel Presentation, Washington State Indian Education Association, Pullman, WA.
Hughes, C., Prairie Flower Reuben Banks-Joseph, S.R., (2007). Educating your Representatives across Local, State, and National levels. Native American Training and Information Network Conference, Washington DC., facilitator.
Banks-Joseph, S.R. (2007). Educating Every Child: Legal Issues and Children with Behavioral Support Needs Strand (Invited, Day 1). National Native American Families Together Community Friends Conference. San Diego, CA.
Banks-Joseph, S.R. (2006). Educating Every Child: Early Childhood Special Education Strand (Invited, Day 1). National Native American Families Together Community Friends Conference. San Diego, CA.
Banks-Joseph, S.R. (2006). Educating Every Child: Secondary Education and Transition Strand (Invited, Day 2). National Native American Families Together Community Friends Conference. San Diego, CA.
Honors
Indigenous Honoring, Pah-Loots-Pu, 2005
Mortor Board, Distinguished Professor, 2005
Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2003
Faculty Excellence Award for Service, 2002
American Indian Special Education Leadership and Teacher Training
Fellowship, Penn State
Spencer Travel Fellowship, Penn State
Educational background
- Ph.D. Special Education, Pennsylvania State University, 1997
- M.Ed. Special Education/Early Childhood, Gonzaga University, 1992
- B.A. Special Education, Elementary Education; Minor, Reading, Eastern Washington University, 1982
