Early Childhood Education
Jenna Alton
Jenna Alton is a research scientist in the Social Learning Lab at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies how a child’s social world influences their thinking, learning, and behavior as a child and into adulthood. Recent News
Naomi Caselli
Dr. Naomi Caselli is an assistant professor of Deaf education and the co-director of the AI & Education initiative at Boston University. She leads a research team that documents the structure of the American Sign Language lexicon, the effects of language deprivation on language acquisition, and developing AI-enabled sign language technology. She is hearing, and […]
Dina C. Castro
Dr. Dina Castro is director of the BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and the inaugural Bahamdan Professor in Early Childhood Well-Being at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her scholarship focuses on equity and quality in the early care and education of bilingual children in immigrant, migrant, and indigenous communities. It is […]
Kyle DeMeo Cook
Dr. Kyle DeMeo Cook is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Department. Her research focuses on using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to better understand early childhood policy topics, […]
Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Teaching & Learning Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is a developmental and community psychologist who studies the social, cognitive, and language development of racially marginalized children […]
Nermeen Dashoush
Dr. Nermeen Dashoush is a clinical assistant professor of early childhood at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work focuses on leveraging media and technology to provide access to high-quality STEM education. Her research interests include enhancing discourse between adults and children, elevating classroom quality, and STEM informal learning spaces. Dr. […]
William Delgado
Dr. William Delgado is a research assistant professor at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Department. His overarching goal is to understand and address inequality in opportunities and to foster human potential. His current research studies teacher quality and human decisionmaking, with a focus on parents. […]
Tchorzky Eugene
Tchorzky Eugene serves as the academic resource counselor for Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math Science at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Mx. Eugene has experience in numerous pre-college programs and expertise in cultivating supportive environments for student development. Mx. Eugene has an innate passion for empowering communities across all demographics […]
Ellie Friedland
Dr. Ellie Friedland is an associate professor in the Early Childhood Education Program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate early childhood education courses, including Classroom Assessment of Young Children, practicum seminar, and supervision of student teachers. She has designed and taught Creating Welcoming […]
Maliki Ghossainy
Maliki Eyvonne Ghossainy is a senior research scientist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. A psychological scientist and statistician, she integrates social, cognitive, cultural, and biological mechanisms into a model of belief formation across the early childhood years. Using mixed-methods designs, Dr. Ghossainy studies the sophisticated ways in which children judiciously evaluate […]