Dr. Tyi-Sanna is an educator with a passion for work that focuses on equity and quality education for all children. She has centered her work through Special Education and Teacher preparation as her current work focuses on district and schoolhouse-level system change to support students with more severe disabilities in the general education classroom. She also provides support for schools, districts, and leaders in creating systems to address disparities in identification for special education services for Black, Brown, and children in poverty around topics like classroom management, collaborative planning, co-teaching culturally relevant instruction, and critical race theory.
She is also the Board President of MindWorks Collaborative, a non-profit that supports Special Education Leaders of Color through community building and using the lens of equity to build capacity in their current school systems to move the needle for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Dr. Jones received a Bachelor’s in Special Education at North Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University, a Master’s in Special Education with an emphasis on Autism from the University of Kansas, and a Doctorate of Special Education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Jones comes to this work with a clear vision of the past and creative solutions to impact the trajectory in the field of education for students and leaders that have been historically under-served.
