Tyanne Bailey

Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Teacher Education / Assistant Professor / Education Department Chair

Dr. Tyanne Bailey joined Huntington University faculty in the fall of 2015 as an assistant professor within the Education department. Prior to accepting this position, she taught special education in Huntington County Community Schools in mild intervention programs at the elementary level, as well as in Wabash County at both Wabash City High School and Northfield Jr/Sr High School in intense intervention programs for both middle school and high school students with exceptional needs. In addition to her full-time classroom responsibilities, Dr. Bailey also taught adjunct courses in special education for Huntington University’s Education Department from 2008-2011.

As of 2018, Dr. Bailey accepted the role of Director of Teacher Graduate and Undergraduate Teacher Education and Education Department Chair as well as continuing her active role teaching as an assistant professor within Huntington University’s Education Department. During this same time, she became the Program Director for HU’s ABLE Program (2018-2022), which combined her passion for teaching, working regularly with individuals with intense exceptional needs, and providing opportunities for these individuals beyond their high school years. It was also during this time that Dr. Bailey, with the assistance and support of her awesome department team, led Huntington University’s Education Department through a successful national accreditation cycle/visit, that resulted in HU’s Education Department being accredited through the newest national accrediting body, CAEP, for the first time. (The department was formerly accredited by NCATE)

Dr. Bailey currently teaches courses in introduction to education, educating exceptional learners, the foundations of special education, methods for teaching exceptional learners, assessment for exceptional learners, and collaborating and consulting with exceptional learners, teachers, and families. She also supervises teacher candidates during their special education practicum experiences and oversees all student teaching and practicum experiences for the department.

Dr. Bailey is a 2004 graduate of Huntington University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and special education, mild disabilities, K-12. She holds a Master of Science in Education degree in intensive intervention from Ball State University and a Doctor of Education degree from Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida. Her doctoral focus was on the study of the impact of a university’s program for intellectual disabilities on undergraduate students’ perceptions and attitudes.

Originally from Woodburn, Indiana, she and her husband, Phil, also a teacher and HU alum, reside in Huntington with their four daughters, Haiden, Harper, Hadley and Haislyn. Her passion is to teach future educators as well as non-education majors about the ins and outs of teaching and working with individuals with exceptional needs and their families and sees the profession as an opportunity to bring Christ not only to the classroom, but also to the lives of her students and their families.