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Education
Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education
M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education
M.A., University of Mississippi
B.S., Cornell University
Areas of Specialty
Rural Alaska, Foundations in Education, School Choice, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Pipeline
Courses Taught
EDI 430 / 530: Education & society
EDI 475 / 575: Practicum & seminar in adolescence inclusive education
EDI 603: Educational assessment & evaluation
EDI 414 / 514: Special education methods
EDI 419 / 519: Assessment in special education
Research Interests
Rural school leadership, school choice; charter schools; homeschooling; students with disabilities.
Recent Publications
Wilkens, C. (2025). Foundations of American education: Ten questions for new teachers.
Wilkens, C., Littlebear, J. & Thompson, R., Eds. (2025). Rural School Leadership: Lessons from Alaska
Watts, D., Wilkens, C., & J. Tripp. (2023). Working towards race-conscious collaboration. English Leadership Quarterly, Issue: Leading Towards New Collaborations and Coalitions. https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/elq202332452
Wade, C., Wilkens, C., Sonnert, G., & Sadler, P. (2023). Presenting a new model to support the secondary-tertiary transition to college calculus. Journal of Mathematics Education, 14(1). https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/jmetc/article/view/10483 .
Wilkens, C. (2022). Remote university supervision of student teachers: Lessons and recommendations. In Bawa, P., Ed. Preparing faculy for technology dependency in the post-COVID-19 era. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/remote-university-supervision-of-student-teachers/296476
Wade, C., Wilkens, C., Sonnert, G., & P.M. Sadler. (2020). Four component instructional design (4C/ID) model confirmed for secondary tertiary mathematics. In Sacristán, A.I., Cortés-Zavala, J.C. & Ruiz-Arias, P.M. (Eds.). Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Mexico. Cinvestav / AMIUTEM / PME-NA. DOI: 10.51272/pmena.42.2020-386.
Wilkens, C., & P. Kalenda. (2019). Correspondence Schools in Alaska: Enrollment and Cohort Graduation Rates, 2010-17. Journal of School Choice 13(4):509-536. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2019.1683263 .
Wade, C., Wilkens, C., Sonnert, G., & P. Sadler. (2017). High School Preparation for College Calculus: Is the Story the Same for Males and Females? The High School Journal 100(4):250-263. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/663567
Wilkens, C., Wade, C., Sonnert, G., & Sadler, P. (2015). Are homeschoolers prepared for college calculus?Ch. 9 in Maranto, R., & D. Bell, Eds., Homeschooling in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge.
