coe-staff: Reminder: Colloquium - Dr. Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Tenure Track Faculty Candidate

[Tracy L Bullock]

Reminder: Colloquium tomorrow, Thursday, Jan 19th.  See below for more information. Hope to see you there!



Please join us for a colloquium presented by one of the candidates for the College of Education Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education tenure-track faculty position.



Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, Ph.D.

Early Intervention & Assessment to support preschool-age children at risk for disabilities: Reducing threats of intersectionality through research in language, early literacy and parenting
Colloquium and Q&A
Thursday, January 19th, 2017 - 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
LOKEY 119
Light Refreshments Provided

The early childhood window presents a unique opportunity to mitigate established risk factors that are malleable or fluid. In this presentation, Dr. Wackerle-Hollman will summarize her work toward reducing and ameliorating risk factors and building evidence-based strategies to promote developmental assets that specifically impact young children with or at risk for disabilities. In her work, Dr. Wackerle-Hollman aims to identify the intersectionality, or connections between various categorizations and demographic factors that lead to compound disadvantages for young children at risk for disabilities through two veins of research: early language and literacy assessment development and through the development of evidence-based parenting interventions.
This presentation will report the findings of a recent study of a parenting intervention titled Family Academy: College Bound Babies. College Bound Babies is a 12 week parenting intervention designed for use in the Northside Achievement Zone, a federal promise neighborhood characterized by intense poverty, high rates of crime and child maltreatment, the highest rate of violence in the city of Minneapolis and the lowest academic achievement for the children who reside within the Zone. In addition, Dr. Wackerle-Hollman will discuss the lesson learned from the College Bound Babies study that fueled work on a second parenting project. Finally, Dr. Wackerle-Hollman will conclude with a brief summary of how her efforts collectively connects to her early language and literacy assessment work, creating a cohesive research agenda.

Dr. Wackerle-Hollman is an educational psychologist with a passion for engaging communities and young children to improve child and family outcomes. Alisha's interest focuses on two primary strands of research: a clinical foci on parenting education and development and an applied foci centralized around early childhood assessment and intervention. In the area of parenting education Alisha aligns her research with community based participatory research models and has specific interest in improving parent engagement and child level outcomes for disadvantaged families through empowerment and evidence-based parenting practices. Alisha's applied research includes the development of multiple early childhood language and literacy assessments including co-authoring both the Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs)<http://www.cehd.umn.edu/EdPsych/research/igdi-apel.html> and the Spanish Individual Growth and Development Indicators (S-IGDIs)<http://www.cehd.umn.edu/EdPsych/research/spanish-igdis.html>. Her assessment and measurement work emphasizes the importance of robust assessment practices in early childhood and meaningful interpretation of student level data to information instructional decisions. She has specific expertise in early childhood models of multi-tiered systems of support and data-based decision making to support educational professionals in using assessment data in meaningful ways. Dr. Wackerle-Hollman has received funding from the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES), private foundations, and non-profits to support her work. Dr. Wackerle-Hollman earned her Ph.D. at<http://ph.d.at/> the University of Minnesota, and prior to her graduate education she worked as a preschool teacher and director as well as an early childhood special education teacher.

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