Ann T. Halvorsen

Dr. Ann T. Halvorsen received her Ed.D. in Special Education/Educational Psychology from the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco State University’s joint doctoral program. Dr. Halvorsen’s primary areas of interest include all aspects of inclusive services for individuals with disabilities, and the systemic change and school reform processes to accomplish inclusive schools, as well as differentiated curriculum/instruction and collaborative teaching relationships within inclusive settings. She has worked in the field of education with a focus on individuals with disabilities for nearly four decades as a classroom teacher, university instructor and professor, project director, researcher, professional developer,consultant to school districts, author, advocate and systems change facilitator. Her work designing and implementing a variety of statewide projects in collaboration with co-author and colleague Tom Neary, has been instrumental in the movement of hundreds of California students with severe disabilities from segregated to integrated schools and from separate special to general education classrooms. Dr. Halvorsen is a past President of California TASH, has written and received several multi-year federal grants in collaboration with school districts and the state, and is the author of numerous published articles, manuals, book chapters and books, most recently this second edition of Building Inclusive Schools: Tools & Strategies for Success (Halvorsen & Neary, 2009, Pearson).