Rate My Professor Kathleen Kiley Clements

Kathleen Kiley Clements is an Assistant Professor of Education, Chair of the Education Department, and Director of Teacher Education at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. She holds an EdD from Northcentral University in Arizona, an MS from the University of Houston, Clear Lake, and a BA from Boston College. Prior to her faculty appointment, she amassed over twenty years of experience in public school teaching and administration, including roles as Assistant Principal, Principal, and Special Education Administrator. This extensive background enhances her leadership in teacher education programs. Clements teaches a range of courses, including Language Arts and Writing Methods, Characteristics and Identification of Students with Mild Disabilities, Introduction to Special Education, Special Education Methods, Exceptionality and the Special Education Internships, as well as online courses such as Exceptional Student Education and Federal and State Civil Rights and Education Law. Her research interests center on legislation in special education, educational leadership, and school law in the public sector and special education. She serves on the Higher Education Literacy Faculty Committee for the Maine Department of Education. Professional affiliations include Kappa Delta Pi, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and the Council for Exceptional Children.

Clements has published peer-reviewed articles in the New England Reading Association Journal, such as "Continuity and the Pendulum in Reading and the Literature for Children and Young Adults" (2011, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 74-81, co-authored with S. Hess and Sandip L. Wilson), "Literacy and Learning on the Edges" (2011, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 67-75, co-authored with S. Hess and Sandip L. Wilson), and "Exploring the Professional Books: Alliances, Reading as an Expert, and Community" (2012, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 56-62, co-authored with Sandip L. Wilson). She has delivered conference presentations, including on vocabulary development through language acquisition for grades K-6 (2009), integration of spectroscopic techniques across the undergraduate curriculum (2013), and differentiation in the high school classroom at McAuley High School by invitation (2015). Her honors include a National Science Foundation grant awarded in June 2010 for $198,000.00 titled Integration of Spectroscopic Techniques (grant #0942192) and a Davis Grant awarded in October 2011 for $1,000.00 for the Assessment for Special Education Program.