LISA SILLIMAN FRENCH

Professor Emerita
Texas Woman’s University (TWU)

Lisa Silliman-French is a Professor Emerita from Texas Woman’s University (TWU). She was with TWU for 14 years and taught in the public school as an Adapted Physical Education (APE) teacher and Special Education Coordinator for 17 years. She has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of pedagogy related to students with disabilities. She has received state, national, and international teaching awards. She has published a minimum of 54 referred manuscripts, 9 manuals/guides, and 7 referred articles in proceedings. She has presented 9 webinars/podcasts, over 35 research poster presentations, 140 state/national/international presentations, and has been a Keynote presenter for 2 conferences. Her largest grant received was a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to address the critical national and state shortages of teachers in APE to help meet the needs of students with low-incidence disabilities attending high poverty schools. She has been involved in numerous University, College, and Departmental committees consistently throughout her employment at TWU. In addition she is greatly involved with the state organization related to health and physical education for students with disabilities.

Presentations

• Assessment: What’s Appropriate? (Abstract)
• Assessment: What’s Appropriate? (Presentation)
• Knowledge Sharing: Strategies to Improve Physical Educators, Adapted Physical Educators, and Special Educators (Abstract)
• Knowledge Sharing: Strategies to Improve Physical Educators, Adapted Physical Educators, and Special Educators (Presentation)
• A School District Model for Infusing Teacher Preparation in Adapted Physical Activity (Presentation)