MCPER’s project coordinator for the Center on Instruction’s Special Education Strand successfully defended her dissertation on February 19, 2009, to officially become Dr. Katie Klingler Tackett. Dr. Tackett is a graduate of the Special Education Department of our College of Education here at UT. Her dissertation is titled “More Than the Sum of its Parts: A Multiple-Case study of the Implementation of RTI at Five Sites.” We congratulate her on this milestone and look forward to her continued success!