At Kent State

Fall 2009

Ms. Hubbell was nominated to serve as the Special Education Representative on the College of Education, Health, and Human Services Dean’s Graduate Student Council.  As the department representative, Ms. Hubbell solicits information from other graduate students in Special Education on issues that they would like to have presented to the Dean at the Council meeting held each semester. 

Fall 2010

The College of Education, Health, and Human Services Doctoral Student Forum began a peer mentoring program for new doctoral students.  Ms. Hubbell applied to serve as a peer mentor and currently supports two first-year doctoral students in Special Education.  Primarily, she provides informal social/emotional support to her mentees as they transition into academia.  She also assists informally with academic advising.

Ms. Hubbell collaborated with fellow doctoral student Michelle Gatmaitan and two KSU faculty members to develop a partnership between KSU’s Early Childhood Intervention Specialist program and the Summit County Board of Developmental Disabilities Early Intervention program to increase pre-service teachers’ learning and experiences with consultative models of service delivery and home visiting.  Together they created objectives for a limited field experience to be conducted every spring semester for students enrolled in KSU’s Family and Professional Collaboration course and for a year-long, in-depth field practicum for students interested in earning the Early Intervention credential. 

            In response to shared concerns about their students’ skills in technology, writing, and research, Ms. Hubbell and her colleague Michelle Gatmaitan designed a series of workshops for the Spring 2011 semester.  The workshops are targeted towards students enrolled in the Early Childhood Intervention Specialist master’s degree and/or licensure program. 

In Ohio

At the annual meeting of Ohio’s Subdivision for the Division for Early Childhood (ODEC) in April 2010, Ms. Hubbell was elected to serve a two-year term as the organization’s President Elect followed by a two-year term as President.  Since taking over the position in July 2010, Ms. Hubbell prepared and submitted the organization’s annual report to the Division for Early Childhood, assisted with operations at the first ODEC conference in August, and represented ODEC at the Division for Early Childhood’s National conference in October.  She has worked closely with the ODEC President to develop a detailed set of objectives and actions to guide their work for next two years.  Of primary importance is increasing membership and awareness of the organization.  To advance this mission, Ms. Hubbell attended a meeting of the Ohio Subdivision of the Council for Exceptional Children in October to begin a partnership which will raise the visibility of ODEC state-wide.

Across the Nation

With the help of adviser Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, Ms. Hubbell designed a year-long internship with Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children (DEC) to focus on leadership in early childhood special education policy and advocacy at the national level.  Her primary responsibilities are to develop an annual DEC internship program and to start a new special interest group for students in Early Childhood Special Education.   As part of her internship, she attends DEC’s monthly executive board meetings presenting her progress and plans related to the internship activities.

Click here to read the internship proposal letter.