Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Child Wellbeing and Education Research
I direct Child Wellbeing and Education Research at The Consultation Center at Yale, where I also serve as a Senior Evaluation Consultant for YaleEval. My work encompasses three main themes. The first theme focuses on early childhood care and learning, examining factors and practices in childcare, educational, and home settings that impact young children’s development, learning, and pre-academic outcomes. The second theme centers on psychosocial wellbeing, particularly social and emotional learning (SEL), which involves acquiring intrapersonal and interpersonal life skills such as self-control and managing interpersonal conflict. The third theme addresses the sociopolitics of health and education, aiming to understand how sociopolitical factors shape the delivery of healthcare and education, and how these dynamics can both benefit and hinder positive outcomes for...
Assistant Director of Child Wellbeing and Education Research
Joanna Meyer joined The Consultation Center in 2014 and currently serves as Assistant Director of Child Wellbeing and Education Research and Co-Director of the Partnership for Early Education Research (PEER). Meyer partners with education stakeholders to conduct research and evaluation studies that can inform the improvement of education systems and practices. Research interests include educational equity, early childhood education, the transition to K-12 education, social-emotional learning, family engagement, multilingual learners, STEM education, improvement science, and evaluation. Meyer is also committed to the dissemination of research findings to broad audiences, including educators, parents, education leaders, and policymakers, as well as researchers. Along with ten years in research-practice partnerships, Meyer brings ten years of experience as an educator to...
Now the Senior Director of Research for Child Care Aware® of America, Dr. Clare Waterman is a highly experienced researcher and evaluator. She has 15 years of experience leading studies that guide early care and education leaders and policymakers in improving outcomes for children, families, and communities. She brings extensive expertise in measurement, quantitative and qualitative research methods, policy analysis, mixed methods evaluations, research-practitioner partnerships, and technical assistance. Her research focuses on identifying strategies to improve early childhood education. Before joining Child Care Aware® of America, Waterman served as a Research Scientist for Education Development Center, where she co-founded the Partnership for Early Education Research (PEER) and the Vermont Universal PreK Research Partnership and Early Childhood Workforce...
Suzanne Porco Clement
C.E.S. Lead
Suzanne Porco Clement is the Early Childhood Coordinator for Cooperative Educational Services (C.E.S.), the Regional Education Service Center for Southwestern Connecticut. Clement brings her deep knowledge of Connecticut’s early care and education system to her role on the PEER management team. A passionate advocate for high quality early childhood education experiences for children and families, Clement currently leads C.E.S. Professional Development Services' early childhood professional learning initiatives, serving public schools, community based early care and education programs and family child care programs. She joined C.E.S. in 2000 as the Family Coordinator at the Six-to-Six Magnet School, where she later held the titles of Family and Early Childhood Specialist and Early Childhood Coordinator. Clement’s work is driven by a commitment to advancing equity and building the...
George A. Coleman, MA, MEd
Co-founder
Now retired from his role as an Early Childhood System Development Specialist at C.E.S., George A. Coleman was twice named Acting Commissioner of Education during his 24 year career in the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE). He retired from the department in October, 2011. While at the SDE he also held the position of as Deputy Commissioner of Education, Associate Commissioner of Education, Chief of the Bureau of Curriculum and Teaching and Chief of the Bureau of Early Childhood Education. He is now a private educational contractor, working at the Cooperative Educational Services in Trumbull, Connecticut.Mr. Coleman joined the State Department of Education in 1987 as Kindergarten and Primary Grades Consultant. In that position he established the state’s rationale for full-day kindergarten investment and supported the department in procuring from the legislature the...
Heidi Rosenberg
EDC Lead
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