Becky Muller
Doctoral Student
Becky Muller is a doctoral student in special education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include internalizing mental health disorders, emotional behavioral disorders, and school-based policing. She has published several papers on the topics of emotional and behavioral disorders and school based policing.
Becky began her teaching career through Teach For America in South Louisiana, where she taught self-contained special education to students with mild/moderate disabilities. Since then, she has continued to work in education, spending six years working directly with students in inclusion, resource and self-contained settings. She has spent the past five years working as a special education administrator.
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Bettini
Education
EdM, Mild/Moderate Disabilities, Southeastern Louisiana University
BA, Colby College
Selected Publications
Novak, A; Peyton, D; Muller, R & Poling, D. Gender differences in risk and protective factors among youth with EBD: Findings from the NLTS2. Behavioral Disorders
Bettini, E, Cumming, M. M., Brunsting, N., McKenna, J. W., Schneider, C*., Muller, R*., & Peyton, D. Administrators’ roles: Providing special educators opportunities to learn and enact effective reading practices for students with EBD. Invited article for special issue of Beyond Behavior.
Bettini, E, Cumming, M. M., Brunsting, N., McKenna, J. W., Cooper, C., Muller, B., & Peyton, D. (2020). Administrators’ roles: Providing special educators opportunities to learn and enact effective reading practices for students with EBD. Beyond Behavior. Advanced online publication. Invited article for special issue focused on reading instruction for students with EBD.
Muller, R., Morabito, M., & Green, J. G. (Accepted). Policing, nursing, mental health, and K-12 schools: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Psychiatric Nursing.
Selected Presentations
National:
Novak, A., Peyton, D., Poling, D. V. Muller, R. (April, 2019). In-school risk and protective factors for females with emotional and behavioral disorders: findings from the national longitudinal transition study-2. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Ontario.
Muller, R., Morabito, M., & Green, J. (October, 2019) Policing and mental health, and K-12 schools: a systematic review of the literature. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Teacher Educators of Children with Behavioral Disorders, Tempe, Arizona.
Bettini, E., Cumming, M, Muller R., Lauterbach, A., Morris-Matthews, H. (October, 2019). Principal’s conceptions of their responsibilities to support special education teachers of students with EBD in self-contained programs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Teacher Educators of Children with Behavioral Disorders, Tempe, Arizona.
Muller, R.,, Morabito, M., and Green, J. (March, 2020) Policing and mental health, and K-12 schools: a systematic review of the literature. Paper presented at Boston University Wheelock School of Education open forum, Boston, Massachusetts
Muller, R., (May, 2020) “There is nothing worse than a bad girl”: Social emotional learning for female adolescents with EBD. EdTalk 2020 presentation, Boston, Massachusetts. Delayed due to COVID-19.
Green, J.G., Goodman, N., Lincoln, E., Muller, R., Shah, T., Morabito, M., Savage, J., Battal, J., Amador, A. (April 2020). When schools call on police: Boston police involvement in behavioral health crises in Boston Public Schools. Paper presented at the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) conference. Boston, MA.