Shawnee Wakeman

A clinical professor in the department of special education and child development at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Wakeman worked for 10 years as a classroom teacher, including time in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Dr. Wakeman’s research interests are accessing the general curriculum and how that’s enacted for students with significant cognitive disabilities in a variety of settings. Dr. Wakeman also works with special education teacher preparation programs and have research edTPA. Dr. Wakeman has led several projects with Project IMPACT being one of those projects. She also works with the T.I.E.S. center as well as a project called 5E related to science instruction for students with moderate to severe intellectual disability.