MSLBD Awards

Outstanding Building

Leadership Award

Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders

Timothy Finkbeiner

•MSLBD Outstanding Building Leadership Award Recipient for 2012 receiving the award presented by Kathy DeSalvo

Principal of Greiffenstein & Wells Alternative School, Wichita, KS

First recipient of this new award!

Advocacy Award Recipients

Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders

Barbara Huff•The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, Alexandria, Virginia

•MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2002

Dixie Jordan•Retired from the PACER Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

•MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2005

Keri Ramos•Parent advocate, Topeka, Kansas

•MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2007

Dr. Jane Rhys•Kansas Developmental Disabilities Council, Topeka, Kansas

•MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2008

Cindy Scarbrough•Principal of Marysville Junior High School, Marysville, Kansas

•MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2010

Leadership Award Recipients

Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders

Richard Whelan•Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1986

Frank H. Wood

•Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota- Minneapolis

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1987

William Morse•Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1988

Mary Margaret Wood

•Professor Emerita at the University of Georgia

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1989

Frank M. Hewett•Long-time faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA •Known for the “Engineered Classroom” Model•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1990

James M. Kauffman•Professor Emeritus of education at the University of Virginia

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1991

Steven R. Forness•Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences at UCLA

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1993

Jane Knitzer•Executive Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1994

Lyndal M. Bullock

•Regent’s Professor at the University of North Texas

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1995

Nicholas J. Long

•Founder of the Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) Institute

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1996

Richard E. Shores

•Senior Scientist at the University of Kansas’s Life Span Institute, Bureau of Child Research

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1999

C. Michael Nelson

•Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, Lexington

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2000

Michael H. Epstein•William E. Barkley Professor of Special Education, specializing in the emotional and behavioral disorders of children

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2001

Richard L. Simpson

•Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2002

Hill M. Walker

•Co-director of the University of Oregon's Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB)

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2003

Eleanor Guetzloe•Professor Emerita of Special Education at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2004

George Sugai•Carole J. Neag Endowed Chair in Behavior Disorders and professor at the University of Connecticut

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2005

Gary M. Sasso

•Dean of Lehigh University’s College of Education

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2006

Robert H. Zabel

•Professor Emeritus at Kansas State University

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2007

Reece L. Peterson

•Professor of Special Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2008

Michael Bullis•Dean of the College of Education and Sommerville-Knight Professor, Secondary Special Education and Transitions Research

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award Recipient in 2009

Mitchell Yell•Chair of Teacher Education and Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2010

Carl R. Smith•Member of the faculty at Iowa State University and chairs the Department of Curriculum and Instruction

•MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2011