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Dr.Dana McCoy
Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Director, SEED Lab
Dana Charles McCoy is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), and director of the Settings for Early Education and Development ( SEED ) lab. Her work focuses on understanding the ways that poverty-related risk factors in...
Dr.Elena Bodrova
Dr. Elena Bodrova is currently the Director for Research and Development at Tools of the Mind and a Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University. In collaboration with Dr. Deborah Leong, she developed the...
Abby Hemenway Deaver
Project Coordinator
Abby Hemenway Deaver is a project coordinator in Dr. McCoy's SEED Lab working on the RRSM. Currently, she also serves as a research assistant at the University of Vermont where her work focuses on trauma-informed practice across sectors. She is...
Dr.Stephanie Jones
Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Director, EASEL Lab
Stephanie Jones' research, anchored in prevention science, focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children and youth's social, emotional, and behavioral development. Over the last ten years her work has focused on both evaluation...
Andrew Koepp
Andrew Koepp is a member of Dr. McCoy's SEED Lab , where he works on the RRSM . As a project coordinator, Andrew supported data collection, management, and analysis for this project. Andrew is currently a doctoral student in the department of Human...
Dr.Deborah Leong
Executive Director, Tools of the Mind
Professor Emerita, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Dr. Deborah J. Leong is the Executive Director of Tools of the Mind and Professor Emerita of Psychology at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she taught for 36 years in the Psychology Department and in the Department of Education. Dr. Leong...
Dr.Oliver Wilder
Oliver Saunders Wilder's research focuses on leveraging innovative technology for psychological and neuroscience research, with a focus on socio-affective development, co-regulation, bio-behavioral synchrony, and autism spectrum disorders. Oliver received...
Barb Wilder-Smith
Barb Wilder-Smith coordinated two randomized control design research projects studying the efficacy of the Tools of the Mind program and has trained PreK and K teachers across the country. She began her career as a teacher, worked as an adjunct instructor...
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Research Assistant Team
We'd like to acknowledge the fabulous team of Research Assistants at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Tools of the Mind who contributed to the development and validation of the RRSM:
Jamie Baik
Isabelle Burns
Shari Campbell
Jeniris Garay
Rebecca Lebowitz
Ka Ya Lee
Kathleen Li
Heer Shaikh
Michał Miąskiewicz
Ana María Restrepo-Sáenz
Megan Siebert
Jillian Sullivan
Sarah Thang