Bradley Witzel, Ph.D., is an award winning teacher and professor who works as an associate professor and education program coordinator at Winthrop University, the flagship education college for the state of South Carolina. As a classroom teacher, and before that as a paraeducator, he worked in multiple settings teaching mainly math and science to high achieving students with disabilities and at-risk concerns. Dr. Witzel has authored several dozen research and practitioner articles as well as seven books, including the bestselling RtI in Math and recently published Building Number Sense through Corwin Press and Rigor for Students with Special Needs through Taylor and Francis. He has developed and presented a dozen educational videos as well as delivered over 300 workshops and conference presentations. He was an elected member of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Accessibility and Accommodations work group and is a Governing Board Member of the Southeast Regional Educational Laboratory (REL), funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Dr. Witzel currently serves as the editor of Focus on Inclusive Education through the Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI) and recently served as an author/panelist on the IES practice guide Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics and as an invited reviewer of the final report from the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. Most importantly, he is a father of two, husband of an educator, and son of two educators.
