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CEED Board of Directors
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Karen
Cadigan
Director of Outreach and
Public Policy
Martha Farrell Erickson
Senior Fellow
Director, Harris Programs
Co-Chair, President's Initiative on Children, Youth, & Families,
University of Minnesota
Scott McConnell
Director of Community Engagement
Professor, Educational Psychology, Special Education Program
Adjunct Professor, Child Psychology
Director Graduate Studies, Early Childhood Policy Certificate Program
Amy Susman-Stillman
Director of
Applied Research and Training
Christopher Watson
Director of Professional
Development
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 Karen Cadigan, Ed.S.
Director of Outreach and Public Policy
40 Education Sciences Building
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-8723
Fax: 612-625-2093
Email: cadigan@umn.edu
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Karen Cadigan is the Director of
Outreach and Public Policy at the Center for Early Education and
Development. She is a
nationally certified school psychologist and worked in public
schools for seven years with children across the age range, most
recently as the coordinator of the Minneapolis Public Schools’ early
childhood autism programs. She worked as a research assistant for
several projects including the Preschool Families Project at the
University of Washington, examining perseverating behavior problems
in preschool boys, and the
Improving Preschoolers’ Reading Outcomes
through Measurement and Intervention in Classroom Environments (I’PROMICE)
project at the University of Minnesota.
Her current teaching,
training, and research efforts focus on early childhood assessment,
early literacy development, autism in early childhood, and linking
early childhood research to public policies. She coordinates the
University of Minnesota’s graduate certificate program in
Early Childhood Policy studies and provides ongoing assistance
to Minnesota’s
Legislative Early Childhood Caucus. Ms. Cadigan also provides
technical support and training to providers nationwide who use the
Early Literacy Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDI’s)
and the related Get it, Got it, Go!
website.
Ms. Cadigan is currently
finishing her doctorate in educational psychology at the University
of Minnesota with a thesis examining the relations between
preschoolers’ phonemic awareness skills and vocabulary development.
Ms. Cadigan has an Educational Specialist degree from
James Madison University
and a Master’s degree from the
University of
Washington. She is a
2002 Bush Leadership Fellow and 2006 recipient of the
President’s Student Leadership and Service award and the
Mary
A. McEvoy Award for Public Engagement and Leadership. Karen is a
graduate of Minnesota’s Head Start program.
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 Martha Farrell Erickson,
Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Director, Harris Programs
Co-Chair, President's Initiative on Children, Youth, & Families,
University of Minnesota
40 Education Sciences Building
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Having served
as the founding Director of the University of Minnesota's
Children,
Youth, & Family Consortium (1991 to 2003), Marti Erickson now directs
the Harris Programs for CEED and co-chairs the
President's Initiative
on Children, Youth and Families. A developmental psychologist and
professor in both Child Psychology and Family Social Science, Marti specializes in linking
research, practice, and policy in the areas of parent-child
attachment, child abuse prevention, and children's mental health. With
Byron Egeland, Marti developed
the
STEEP™
program, a preventive intervention program for parents and
infants, and the
Seeing Is
Believing® video strategy for working with
parents and infants, and she oversees training for both of those
programs.
Marti's publications include many scholarly articles and books as well as a
syndicated parenting column
Growing Concerns. Since 1995, Marti also has appeared
regularly as the child and family expert on KARE-TV's (NBC) Today Show and Sunrise Show and, with her
daughter, hosts a weekly radio show, Good Enough Moms, which
airs every Sunday 2:00pm to 4:00pm on FM 107.
Marti has been honored by numerous state and national organizations,
including the Minnesota Psychological Association (Outstanding
Contribution to Psychology Award, 2003) and the Minnesota School
Psychologists Association (Distinguished Best Practices Award, 2003).
Marti is co-director, with
Christopher Watson, of the new interdisciplinary
Infant and Early Childhood Mental
Health Certificate Program being developed by CEED. The
Certificate Program is scheduled to begin fall semester 2007.
Read an article that appeared in USA Today November
2007 about the Children &
Nature Network (Building a Movement to Reconnect Children &
Nature) that includes Q&A from Dr. Erickson.
Article:
Children and Nature: A Natural Attachment
(pdf file)
Presentation:
The
Three Cs: Critical Ingredients for Healthy Child and Youth
Development (pdf file)
Good Enough Moms and Dads:
Listen to Marti and her daughter,
Erin Erickson Garner, on "Good Enough Moms" every Sunday, 2-4pm,
on FM107 in the Twin Cities or via
webcast.
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Scott
McConnell, Ph.D.
Director, Community Engagement
40 Education Sciences Building
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-6365
Fax: 612-625-2093
Email:
smcconne@umn.edu
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Scott McConnell is CEED's director of community
engagement and devotes time to the
University's Northside
Initiative. Scott continues his research, training, and outreach
in language and literacy development and early childhood education. He
leads CEED's presence on Minneapolis's north side, where he
focuses on early childhood community-based research, outreach, and
advocacy.
Scott is
Professor of Educational Psychology in the Special Education
Program; in addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Child Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies for the
Early Childhood Policy
Certificate program at the University of Minnesota. Dr. McConnell received his Ph.D. in
Educational Psychology at the University of
Oregon in 1982. He served as the
Co-Director of the Early Childhood Research
Institute on Measuring Growth and Development, a five-year research,
development, and dissemination effort to build
procedures for describing young children's growth
and development over time, and to design
interventions that support optimal rates of
development. He has published articles on the
assessment and treatment of social behavior
deficits, social competence, school adjustment,
and academic performance, including development
of early literacy skills and other developmental
competencies. Scott is also
the proud parent of two children, Nora and Reid.
Recent Publications and Presentation
Handouts
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Amy Susman-Stillman, Ph.D.
Director of
Applied Research and Training
40 Education Sciences Building
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone:
612-624-3367
Email:
asusman@umn.edu
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Amy Susman-Stillman serves as
director of applied research and training, bringing together work of
the Harris Programs and CEED to better understand and improve the quality of early
care and education and the quality of professional development efforts
in our region and country.
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Christopher Watson, Ph.D.
Director of Professional
Development
40 Education Sciences Building
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-2898
Fax: 612-625-2093
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Christopher
Watson, Ph.D., is Director of Professional Development at the
Center for Early Education and Development (CEED) in the College
of Education and Human Development at the University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities. Prior to his work at the University of
Minnesota, Mr. Watson was director of the California Education
Innovation Institute at California State University Sacramento, a
statewide training program for general and special educators,
administrators, and parents.Dr. Watson is a certified Infant Toddler Training Intensive (ITTI)
trainer and has co-written two early childhood
training-of-trainer curricula,
Talking Reasonably and
Responsibly About Brain Development and
Violence Prevention and
Intervention in Early Childhood. In addition, he has developed
training courses for early childhood professionals, including
Relationship-Based Teaching with Young Children and
Bridging
Education and Mental Health (BEAM). Dr. Watson has participated
in numerous community-based professional development activities,
including both content-specific and systems work. Currently Dr. Watson is working on
Bridging Education and Mental Health (BEAM), a multi-year
research and training project focused on early childhood
social-emotional development, mental health and challenging
behaviors, funded by the Minnesota Department of Education. He
is co-director, along with Elizabeth A. Carlson and Martha Farrell Erickson, of the new
interdisciplinary Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Certificate Program, which began its first cohort fall semester 2007.
Vita and
Presentation Handouts
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Richard Weinberg, Ph.D.
Director
Distinguished
University Teaching Professor of Child Psychology
Institute of Child Development
180 Child Development
51 E. River Road
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0345
Telephone: 612-624-3575
Fax: 612-624-6373
weinb002@umn.edu
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Formerly co-director of the Harris Center
and long-time University faculty member and administrator, serves as
director of CEED. Rich
has a long
history with CEED, a clear and strong vision, and a commitment to
"giving away child development knowledge."
Recent
publications
Invited
Review of "The Infant and the Family in the Twenty‑First century."
(2004). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, 43:1, 115‑116.
A Body Coming
Through the Rye. (2004). American Psychological Society Observer
17(4), 35.
Children and
Sports/Athletics (2005). In Fisher, C. B. & Lemer, R. M. (Eds.),
Applied Developmental Science An Encyclopedia of Research Policies
and Programs Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1048‑1051
(with J. Ostrov).
Peers (2005).
In Fisher, C. B. & Lerner, R. M. (Eds.), Applied Developmental
Science An Encyclopedia of Research Policies and Programs
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 816‑819 (with J. Ostrov).
Intelligence
Testing (2005). In Fisher, C. B. & Lemer, R. M. (Eds.), Applied
Developmental Science An Encyclopedia of Research Policies and
Programs Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 599‑601 (with A.
Luckner).
The Minnesota
Transracial Adoption Study: Parent reports of psychosocial
adjustment at late adolescence (2004, approved 2005). Adoption
Quarterly, 8(2), 27-44. (with I. Waldman, M. van Dulmen and J.
Scarr).
Recent
honors and awards
- University of Minnesota School
Psychology Training Program Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2005.
- Biography (2005). In Fisher, C. B. &
Lerner, R. M. (Eds.), Applied Developmental Science: An Encyclopedia
of Research, Policies, and Programs, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, 1134-1137.
- President’s Award for Outstanding
Service to the University of Minnesota, 2004.
- Gifted Child Quarterly, Article of the
Year, 2002.
- University Distinguished Teaching
Professor and member of Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1999-.
- Emma M. Birkmaier Professor of
Educational Leadership, 1994-97.
See
individual department web page
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