Dr. Jean Bahney

• Assistant Professor of Education Literacy

Dr. Jean Bahney, a native Iowan, has taught all grades from Pre-K to graduate programs. She has taught in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. Dr. Bahney has experience teaching at the university level in teacher education, reading/literacy, early childhood, curriculum and instruction, elementary education, secondary education, and educational administration.

Additionally, Dr. Bahney has been an elementary principal, a district-level reading/language arts specialist, an Executive Director of Special Education, 504 and Dyslexia (Austin ISD), an Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, and a Superintendent. She worked as a Conservator, a position the Texas Education Agency assigned to academically challenged school districts to promote school improvement. At the request of the Texas Commissioner of Education, she served as Interim Superintendent in one of Texas's most academically challenged districts.

Dr. Bahney has presented at the College Reading Association, International Reading Association, National Reading Conference, Association of Teacher Educators, Southwest IRA, and SERA, as well as state organizations focused on staff development, reading/literacy, foreign language, elementary/secondary principal development, and women in administrative roles.

Dr. Bahney has served as president of the Texas Council of Women School Executives and held offices in multiple reading organizations. She served on Texas Teacher Comparability committees, including the first to consider international certifications, to set state testing standards for certifying secondary teachers. In Texas, she served as an appointee for the state textbook review in reading. She coordinated a university grant site that won an ATE national award acknowledging a redesign of teacher education.