Abby Schachner Email & Phone Number

United States

Co-leads the Early Childhood Learning team and member of the Whole Child Education team. Working to conduct and translate research on children's social, emotional, and academic development and the contexts that support such development to inform policy and practice.

Helped to lead the company’s research agenda, with focus on educational efficacy research. Responsible for designing and supervising large-and smaller-scale studies, both quantitative and qualitative, in diverse environments -online and in person; in schools and homes; in the U.S. and globally. Oversaw internal and independent external researchers, manages.

Menlo Park, CA

Led and managed research, evaluation and technical assistance (TA) projects related to related to early childhood and education programs such as behavioral interventions, home visiting, early intervention and early childhood special education, and public preschool. Responsible for designing, conducting and managing large and small-scale rigorous research.

Sausalito, CA

Translated child development research and applied developmental content knowledge to a variety of early childhood and evaluation projects. Synthesized current research on child development to identify developmental markers for statewide early child development assessments. Worked to create training modules designed to provide child care provider trainers.

Davis, CA

Designed a short-term longitudinal study to examine the influence of familial demographic and emotional factors on individual differences in children’s early social and moral development over the preschool to school-entry transition using quantitative and qualitative methods. Recruited mothers and children from socio-culturally diverse backgrounds.

Davis, CA

Social and Personality Development, Summer Session 2012Upper-level undergraduate course covering social and personality development of children, infancy through adolescence. Cross-Cultural Study of Children, Summer Session 2011Upper-level undergraduate course students covering methods, theories, and current findings of cross-cultural studies of children in.

Davis, CA

Served as a lead Teaching Assistant for the following courses: Contemporary American Families, Emotionally Disturbed Children, Research Methods in Development, Adulthood and Aging, Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging. Led discussion, lab and review sessions. Assisted students in preparing assignments and papers. Gave guest lectures, created quizzes and exam.

Davis, CA

Examined the influence of mother’s demographic and emotional risk on the content of mother–child talk about emotional experiences and young children’s social and emotional competence when children were 4 years old and again 18-months later. Duties included: preparing the data for analysis; analyzing the data; preparing figures and graphs to represent the.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assisted with an early mental health study examining factors influencing intergenerational transmission and temperamental risk for anxiety disorder in infants and toddlers. Conducted diagnostic interviews with infants’ and toddlers’ mothers using the Preschool Aged Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA). Performed detailed behavioral coding of parent-child.

Implemented 1:1 intensive early interventions using behavior modification and ABA programs with children on the autism spectrum, ages 2 to 6 years old, performed in the children’s homes.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assisted on a longitudinal study investigating child care and children’s temperaments over time. Observed and evaluated child care centers’ quality using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R). Conducted phone interviews with parents to collect child care histories. Entered and verified quantitative, observational, and questionnaire.

Colora, MD

Led and organized group activities to build and enhance reading, writing, computational, social, and problem solving skills for children ages 5-10 years.

Ph.D., Human Development

Activities and Societies: Curriculum Committee, Communications Committee, Recruitment Committee Co-Chair, Child Care Advisory Committee to.

B.A., Psychology, Cum Laude (Minors: Cognitive Science; Women'S & Genders Studies)

Activities and Societies: Psychology Honors Thesis, Georgetown Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Sursum Corda-Georgetown.