MSU’s Stratton-Gadke receives national Trainers of School Psychologists Presidential Appreciation Award

Contact: Bryce Mitchell

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Kasee Stratton-Gadke, executive director of the Mississippi Institute on Disabilities, is the recipient of the national Presidential Appreciation Award given by the Trainers of School Psychologists for service to the organization.

TSP fosters the professional development of school psychology trainers and faculty around the world. Stratton-Gadke has served on the executive board since 2017, including a term as president, and is in her final year on the advisory board. She has planned numerous national conferences and served on various committees during her time with TSP.

“Receiving the President’s Award from TSP is an honor and was certainly a surprise,” said Stratton-Gadke. “I am so thankful to have had the privilege to work with so many outstanding colleagues across the country to advance training in school psychology.”

As executive director of the university’s MIoD, Stratton-Gadke oversees the centers housed within the institute, including MSU’s T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability, Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic and Career Horizon Center. She also serves as an associate professor of school psychology.

Stratton-Gadke holds a doctorate in school psychology from Central Michigan University and completed predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.     

MSU’s College of Education, which houses the Mississippi Institute on Disabilities, is also home to five academic departments, a division of education, one research unit and numerous service units. Learn more at https://www.educ.msstate.edu/.  

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