Shawna Rader Kelly
Shawna Rader Kelly is a nationally certified school psychologist in Bozeman, Montana where she serves as the school psychologist at Bozeman High School and leads the school district’s crisis response team. In her daily work, she is actively involved in providing direct and indirect services to students, implementing multi-tiered systems of support, responding to crisis events, conducting evaluations, leading threat assessment teams, and supporting program evaluation.
In addition to her full-time work as a school psychologist, Shawna has worked as an adjunct professor at Montana State University and as a consultant for the Montana Office of Public Instruction, providing training to schools implementing multi-tiered systems of support. She serves as her state’s Credentialing Resource Specialist and chairs the state’s Credentialing and Professional Standards Board. She also chairs the state association’s crisis response team, providing consultation and support to districts following crisis events.
Shawna is a frequent presenter at the state and national levels on topics including mental and behavioral health services, school-based threat assessment, school safety and crisis response, MTSS implementation, and professional supervision. She is also a member of Safer Schools Together (SST)’s training team where she presents the US Secret Service/NTAC model based Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA) training.
An active volunteer leader, Shawna is a past-president and current committee chair for her state association, past Delegate to NASP, and former NASP Delegate Representative and Strategic Liaison for Professional Advocacy and the current NASP President-Elect. In 2017, Shawna was recognized as the NASP School Psychologist of the Year.