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Hope Zikpi, Ph.D.

Zikpi teaches in the Undergraduate and Master鈥檚 of Arts certifications program in Exceptional Student Education at the Tampa and St. Petersburg campuses. Pairing her passion for literacy and students with the highest needs, she supervises interns in the field, prepares teachers to implement intensive interventions for reading, math, and behavior and co-teaches with literacy and math professors in the BXE program for Elementary Education majors in St. Petersburg. Zikpi has taught in various capacities in the teacher preparation program on the USF Tampa campus beginning as an adjunct, Graduate Teaching Assistant and most recently Visiting Professor of Instruction.  She was recently awarded the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the University of South Florida College of Education.

Zikpi graduated from North Carolina Wesleyan College with a double major in Psychology and Criminal Justice, earned her Master鈥檚 of Arts in Specific Learning Disabilities and Assistive Technology Certificate in Assistive Technology from East Carolina University, and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Special Education from the 草莓视频. Her teaching experience spans across kindergarten to college and across disability categories. She worked at a pilot school during the reauthorization of IDEIA to build structures for Response to Intervention in a Pasco County elementary school and as an ESE coach and mentor building capacity to serves students with disabilities in the general education setting, and served as Student Services Coordinator over special populations to ensure compliance and implementation fidelity of plans for students with disabilities and suspected disabilities. She continues to support a local school in best practices for ESE.

Zikpi鈥檚 research interests include best practices for teaching literacy and math to students from nontraditional backgrounds who present with varying disabilities as well as how academic performance affects student behaviors.