Howard P. Wills

Dr. Howard Wills is a Senior Scientist at Juniper Gardens Children’s Project (JGCP) and a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology. He received his doctoral training at KU and also has an M.B.A. from KU and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. His current research interests include evidence-based academic and behavioral interventions for students with challenging behavior, development and evaluation of multi-tiered systems of support and classroom management interventions, and technology based self-monitoring to support children and adults with disabilities. Over 20 years at JGCP, Dr. Wills has been fortunate to have been Principal or Co-Principal Investigator for over $25 million in federal education grants. This work has been carried out with colleagues across the country and has been widely published. Among his current projects, Dr. Wills is leading work to scale up the self-monitoring intervention of I-Connect and the classroom management intervention of CW-FIT.

Research Interests

• Evidence-based academic and behavioral interventions for students with challenging behavior.
• Development and evaluation of multi-tiered systems of support and classroom management interventions.
• Technology based self-monitoring to support children and adults with disabilities. 
• Community-engaged research utilizing single-case and randomized control group designs.