Early Childhood
Dede Addy
Dr. Dede Addy is a research scientist at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her primary research interests are language and literacy learning and issues of racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity in early childhood. Her training and expertise span the fields of […]
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is a research fellow at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include identifying effective ways to foster mental well-being and resilience among at-risk youth. Ms. Ahmed recently published a paper on the effects of mothers’ growth mindsets […]
Mary Bready
Mary Bready is a project coordinator on the Evidence-Based AI in Learning (EVAL) Industry Collaborative. In this role, she is supporting the launch of the EVAL Competition by coordinating logistics, managing partner communications, and contributing to the design of evaluation and submission processes. Before coming to BU Wheelock, Ms. Bready earned a master’s in child […]
Allie Jane Bruce
Allie Jane Bruce is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research is located at the intersection of visual literacy, early childhood, and race & racism; she is interested in how young children process and make meaning of racial content and messaging in […]
Erica Caasi
Dr. Erica Caasi is a clinical assistant professor in the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. At the heart of her work is supporting young people and teachers to engage with texts in ways that build from their lived experiences toward sense-making about themselves, each other, […]
Erin Campbell
Dr. Erin Campbell is a research assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Campbell studies early language and cognition among children born deaf and/or blind. Her research focuses on (1) how perceptual experience (seeing, hearing, touch) and language input shape early language development, and (2) how children and adults […]
Pia Caronongan
Dr. Pia Caronongan is a research associate professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a faculty affiliate of the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC). Her work focuses on developing research-based and data-informed policy strategies to support and improve early care and education (ECE) access and quality. Before coming to […]
Naomi Caselli
Naomi Caselli is an associate professor of Deaf education, director of the Deaf Center, and the director of the AI and Education initiative at Boston University. She is hearing, and her first languages are American Sign Language (ASL) and English. She leads a research team that works to make research on language—across education, computer science, […]
Dina C. Castro
Dr. Dina C. Castro is director of the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and the inaugural Bahamdan Professor in Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University 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 […]
Kyle DeMeo Cook
Dr. Kyle DeMeo Cook is a clinical assistant professor in the early childhood programs at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to better understand early childhood policy topics, such as access to early education and childcare, the transition to kindergarten, and […]