College of Education and Human Development

Center for Early Education and Development

research and evaluation

Meredith Reese

Research and Evaluation Assistant

Meredith Reese works on multiple evaluations of statewide programs that support the early childhood workforce. She has worked at CEED since 2019, collecting, analyzing, and reporting both quantitative and qualitative data for large federally funded…

Meredith Reese

Alyssa Meuwissen

Research Associate

Alyssa Meuwissen, PhD, specializes in supporting adults who support children, whether they work in an early childhood education environment, the child welfare field, or other related professions. Her work focuses on supporting workforce wellbeing…

Alyssa Meuwissen

Mary McEathron

Research Associate and Lead Evaluator

Mary McEathron, PhD, has 20 years of experience evaluating state and local programs with an emphasis on useful evaluations that support learning and program improvements. She has worked with numerous training and professional development programs…

Mary McEathron

Ann Bailey

Director

Ann Bailey, PhD, has more than 25 years of experience in the field of education and special education, specifically in technical assistance and dissemination at regional and national levels, as well as teaching, evaluation, research, and training…

Ann Bailey

Celebrating 50 years of CEED

CEED was founded in 1973 to encourage connections among faculty, students, and community members whose work focused on early childhood. Today, that vision continues to hold true as we provide professional development, conduct research, and share information to help the early childhood workforce improve outcomes for young children.

How storytelling boosts our executive functioning: a Q & A with Chris Wing

In this Q & A, speech-language pathologist Chris Wing, PhD ’13, explains how language development is linked to attachment and emotional regulation. She also talks about encouraging children and adults to tell personal stories as a strategy to build their communication and executive functioning skills.

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