Dia Jackson, MT, EdD
Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research
Highlights
Co-author of High-Leverage Practices in Special Education (Council for Exceptional Children and the CEEDAR Center, 2017)
Co-author of High-Leverage Practices for Inclusive Classrooms (Council for Exceptional Children and the CEEDAR Center, 2015)
Dia Jackson has spent much of her career researching, writing about, and presenting on special education best practices. She’s a senior researcher at AIR, leading technical assistance, research, and professional development for states and school districts in RTI and MTSS. She has taught in both inclusive and self-contained special education settings.
She is director of Region 1 Equity Assistance Center, senior researcher for the U.S. Department of Education’s Transition Supports for Students with Disabilities Study, and project director for the NYC Department of Education’s MTSS-Math for Equity Project. In 2022, she led a study focused on improving transition to kindergarten in Flint, Michigan.
She has a BA in psychology and an MT in special education from the University of Virginia, and an EdD in special education from George Washington University.
Publications, media, and appearances
Culturally sustaining practices in content area instruction for CLD students with learning disabilities (Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2021)
Leveraging MTSS to ensure equitable outcomes (Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports at the American Institutes of Research, 2021)
Supporting students through response to intervention, (YouTube, 2017)