Speaker series

Our Speaker Series are designed to advocate and disseminate research and updates pertaining to child development, as well as to promote the amazing work our team members are conducting!

Interested in attending our Speaker Series? Click the Register Here button to sign-up, located next to each speaker!

Collaborative opportunities

At CEED, we are always looking for ways to collaborate and share information with researchers and scholars!

If you are looking to directly connect for collaboration, please send an email to CEED@bu.edu, addressed to Dr. Jacqueline Sims, our Director of Research.

If you have questions about collaborative efforts, please fill out our contact form!
If you are a RISER affiliate and have research to disseminate, information can be shared by sending an email to Dr. Jacqueline Sims (Director of Research) so that she can send your information out to the RISER mailing list.

Check in with us on our website or Twitter (@CeedBu) for other important information related to CEED!
Interested in becoming a RISER affiliate?

By being a RISER affiliate, you’ll be invited to exclusive RISER events, as well as receive postings for new publications, research, and employment opportunities. We also have a wide range of networks, scholars, and researchers that update us with webinars and actionable child development research so that we can send this information out to everyone.

Employment Opportunities

We currently do not have any positions available at this time, but keep an eye out for more information in the future!

Professional Development

Conversation Compass:
Classroom conversation plays an important role in the development of children's language and reasoning skills. However, studies show that classroom talk relies too much on directives and close-ended questions. Conversation Compass provides many tools, including conversation maps and tracking forms, activities and reflection questions, and more.

Learn to adapt your classroom conversations to meet the diverse needs of all the children you teach and set them up for academic success.
ACSES
The Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) is a reliable and valid assessment designed to improve bidirectional interactions between teachers and children as well was children’s peer-to peer interactions within early childhood classrooms environments. The goal of this measure is to assess classroom interactions, in order to incorporate the cultural knowledge, experiences, and diverse learning and communication styles of racially minoritized learners into classroom teachings by:
  • acknowledging, challenging, and rejecting racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression;
  • emphasizing and actively engaging in issues focused on social justice, democracy, and human rights;
  • striving for an equitable distribution of power and participation between teachers and children.
Have any questions on utilizing these tools? Please reach out and fill out our contact form!