Dr. Kathleen Lynne Lane is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University and an investigator in the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Dr. Lane is the primary investigator of Project WRITE, a Grant funded through the Institute for Educational Sciences, that examines the efficacy of writing interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders who are also poor writers. She is also the PI of an OSEP-directed project studying positive behavior support at the high school level and the PI of a field-initiated project studying prevention of behavior disorders at the elementary level. She has expertise in school-based intervention and statistical analysis including multivariate analysis of longitudinal data sets. She serves on seven editorial boards including Exceptional Children, the Journal of Special Education, and Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and is an associate editor for Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. Dr. Lane has authored three books and published over 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters.