Southeastern University Faculty | A. Helene Robinson

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Hellen Robinson

A. Helene Robinson
Assistant Professor of Exceptional Student Education
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BS in physical education, Liberty University
MS in exceptional student education, emotional handicapped concentration, Nova Southeastern University
EdS in early childhood special education and teaching English to speakers of other languages, University of Miami
EdD (studies) Liberty University

Biography
Helene Robinson brings to Southeastern 14 years of experience teaching students who have a variety of disabilities. Nine of those years, she taught in the Miami-Dade Public Schools, working primarily with students with severe emotional disturbances.  The last five of those years, she taught high school students with autism, in addition to ninth grade reading, at Sebastian River High School in Indian River County. Robinson has also served in various administrative capacities, including as a Department Chair in Miami-Dade County and as a sponsor for the “Yes, I Can!” Club in Indian River County.  She served as a mentor teacher in both school districts and created a Transition Resource Guide to provide information on community services and agencies for families and individuals with disabilities living in Indian River County.  She has also taught education classes for Grand Canyon University.

While working in the Miami-Dade Public Schools, Robinson developed a passion for improving the quality of education in America’s urban schools.  This passion led her to the pursuit of a doctoral degree in educational leadership, teaching, and learning, her dissertation focusing on highly qualified teacher status and the reading achievement of students with disabilities. She is excited about teaching at Southeastern because she can infuse Christian servant leadership principles into the BS in Exceptional Student Education, a major which she has developed for Southeastern.  Robinson is also excited about infusing her passion for urban education into this developing program because of the over-representation of minority students in special education.

Robinson teaches most of the exceptional student education classes at Southeastern. Her other research interests include the effects of NCLB legislation on the reallocation of school resources to increase reading achievement, structures and functions of teacher professional development that correlate with increased student achievement, instructional technology effective for students with disabilities, and characteristics of effective urban schools serving low income students.