Molly McKinnon

Job Title

Adjunct Instructor of Education
Special Education (M.A.), Graduate School

Highlight

Molly graduated in 2002 with a bachelors in Elementary Education and Deaf and Hard of Hearing license. She started her teaching career in 2002 as a K-12 Special Education Itinerant Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher. Molly then moved into the classroom working with students who have moderate to severe cognitive disabilities. She received her masters in special education in 2004 with added licenses in Developmental Cognitive Delay (DCD), and Physical and Healthy Disabilities (PHD). Molly then graduated with her specialist degree in 2019 focusing on obtaining her special education director license and principal license. In 2023 Molly graduated with her doctoral degree in Higher Education Leadership. Molly has four years of teaching experience as a birth - 21 D/HH itinerant teacher, sixteen years as a special education classroom teacher, 5 years as an adjunct professor and student teacher supervisor. Molly currently works as the director at North Dakota State University overseeing their inclusive post secondary program TAP and the accessibility and disability resource center. Molly began her adjunct position at Bethel University in 2022 in the Special Education MA program where she was a student teacher supervisor and also teaches the SPED 661 course.

Started at Bethel

2022

Education

Minot State University - B.A. in Elementary Education and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education, 2002
Minnesota State University- Moorhead - M.A. in Special Education, 2004
Minnesota State University - Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership, 2023

Courses Taught

SPED661

Awards

Horizon Middle School Teacher of the Year (2016)

Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards

ARC of Minnesota advisory board

DISES and CEC (Council for Exceptional Children)

Quote

"Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. " Rick Riordan