Partnerships
I believe that a better understanding of the development of children and families is born in dialogue and collaboration. Partnering with colleagues, schools, and communities helps me connect research and practice by creating projects that make a difference in real life.
Courses list
If you’d like to discuss partnership details, you’re welcome to contact me.
2025-present
National Early Care and Education Workforce Center
As a researcher with NECEWC, my work includes
- examining strategies for early educators to receive financial support with accessing higher education
- supporting states through technical assistance in revising current career pathways to incorporate experience.
Products:
Financial Relief for Early Educators to Access Higher Education
2022-present
The Everyday Quality project, University of Alabama
As a research assistant for the Everyday Quality (EDQ) project, I support creating a new measure of quality and an accompanying toolkit for family child care educators. My work covers:
- conducting and scoring observations using different measures of quality
- developing and testing items for the new EDQ measure
- participant recruitment
- analyzing educator interview data
I am also leading a separate project on educator language in family child care settings using the EDQ observations data.
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2022-present
Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood
My responsibilities as a research assistant at DIEEC include
- monthly and quarterly reporting on quality improvement assistance provided to early care and education programs
- annual provider survey data preparation and analysis
- conducting workplace climate assessments and compiling reports for program administrators
- reporting on programs and initiatives conducted by DIEEC
I also led a project examining early childhood educator participation in the outdoor education professional development initiative.
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2022-present
Speech Language Acquisition and Multilingualism Laboratory
I worked at SLAM Lab as a research assistant for a semester, where I performed
- eye tracking coding
- Language Environment Analysis (LENA) data extraction
- participant recruitment
- Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) coding
After that, I led the project examining the link between parent-child talk and audiovisual media time and program type in collaboration with SLAM Lab at the University of Delaware and the LILAC Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Products:
Exposure to Audiovisual Media and Its Role in Toddlers’ Language Development
2025
PreK in Family Child Care Project
As a research assistant, I supported data analysis and writing of the brief that examined how three distinct locales were integrating Family Child Care into their mixed-delivery PreK systems.
Products:
Implementing PreK in Family Child Care: Case Studies of Three Public PreK System Approaches
2021-2023
University of Delaware Laboratory School
As a research assistant with the Lab School, I:
- worked on pre-service and in-service educator data preparation and analysis
- conducted literature review for manuscripts
- supported the InBloom conference preparation
I also led a project on examining remote school-family interactions during the COVID-19 lockdown.