Dr. Bradley-Black has 17 years experience as a special educator in a large urban school district in Northern Virginia. She has extensive experience working directly with at-risk students at the building level and providing individual schools support and technical assistance as an administrator.

Neil Guthrie is currently assistant superintendent of Student Support Services with the Wichita Public Schools.  He provides leadership for Special Education, Title I Services.  Neil began his career as a school psychologist before moving into educational administration.  He earned his Masters and ED.S degrees from Wichita State University where he teaches Special Education Administration and is completing a doctoral degree.  He is committed to a system of reform efforts that support all students under one system.  He has been instrumental in providing leadership and implementation for the Wichita Multi-Tiered System of Supports.

Colleen Riley, MEd, currently serves as the Director of Early Childhood, Special Education and Title Services in the Kansas Department of Education.  Colleen has provided the leadership necessary to bring the Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS) framework from a grassroots effort to scale in Kansas with a focus on creating a sustainable system to meet the academic and social needs of every student.  In addition, she has worked to align state and federal accountability and technical assistance systems to implement the Kansas Integrated Accountability System (KIAS) and the Kansas Technical Assistance System Network (TASN).  In July 2012, Kansas received an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver and Colleen assumed responsibility for oversight of the technical assistance to be provided to the focus and priority schools.
Prior to joining KSDE, Colleen was principal of a year round K-6 elementary school in Utah.  This elementary school also served the community by providing numerous educational programs for infant and toddlers and preschool students.  Colleen and her school team implemented a school-wide system of positive behavior supports, in addition to a multi-tier model of intervention for reading.  
Colleen has been a local special education director, responsible for overseeing programs birth through age 21, and an assistant director in which her major responsibilities focused on recruiting, hiring and training new special education staff.  Colleen’s teaching experience focused primarily on students with learning disabilities and students with challenging behaviors at all levels, elementary through high school.  
Colleen continues to serve on numerous boards and committees including the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) and the National Title 1 Association encouraging collaboration in order to meet the needs of every student.

Rosborough, a licensed attorney, was an Assistant State Director of Early Childhood, Special Education, and Title Services at the state level. In that role, Rosborough provided leadership for the general supervision systems of all Federal Programs working towards program alignment and effective implementation of multi-tiered systems of support to benefit all learners state-wide.

Thompson is a former state director of Special Education. During her tenure as state director, she provided leadership on special education results-based monitoring, RtI-based learning disabilities guidelines and a teacher evaluation system responsive to caseload specialists. Thompson was also a district director of Special Education and Title I.