CEED's partner organization The Family Partnership created a preschool curriculum that centers on storytelling. Why? Because storytelling supports young children's executive function and self-regulation skills.
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…
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…
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…
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…
What exactly is data visualization? And how can it help organizations better understand and act on the data they collect? Meredith Reese and Mary McEathron explain.
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.
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.