Shefali Pai-Samant
Shefali provides federal, 状态, and local clients with technical expertise in implementing and evaluating early childhood education programs. She has worked on projects for a variety of clients including the Office of Planning, 研究 and Evaluation; Office of Head Start; Office of Child Care; Children’s Bureau, Department of 教育; Texas 教育 Agency; and Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Shefali played a key role in various national early childhood education projects including Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey; Head Start National Training and Technical Assistance System Quality Assurance Contract; and Head Start 研究 to Practice: Assessing Evidence-Based Head Start Program Activities. She is highly experienced in designing research and evaluation studies, conducting literature reviews, and designing data collection tools, among other skills.
最近, Shefali served as the principal investigator for the Texas 教育 Agency’s preschool development grant 状态wide birth-five needs assessment and as the senior advisor on the Alexandria City Public Schools’ family engagement evaluation project. She currently oversees a portfolio of early childhood projects including the Office of Planning, 研究, and Evaluation’s Head Start, the Commander Navy Installations Command’s MilitaryChildCare.com和美国.S. Coast Guard’s 2020 Child Care Needs Assessment.
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Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies
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亚瑟,K.P.卡尔塞拉诺，K.费雷拉斯，D., & Pai-Samant,年代. (2019). ACPS family engagement initiative final report. Report prepared for Alexandria City Public Schools, November 2019.
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Pai-Samant,年代.布朗斯科姆，K.孙，J.麦克劳克林，C.麦克里迪，B.泰勒，J, Uekawa, K.,
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Michalski B.斯宾尼，S., & 霍尔伍德中校,T.J. (2019). Early childhood needs assessment. Report prepared for Texas 教育 Agency, July 2019.
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古普塔,V.拉杰什，A., Pai-Samant,年代., & 古普塔,P. (2019). Fathers and child education in tribal
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Odisha: Reflections of commitment amidst constraints. 在R. 斯(Ed.), Fathering in India: Images and realities (pp. 253-265). Singapore, SG: Springer.
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拉杰什,. & Pai-Samant,年代. (2017, March-April). Geeto, nachcho, gappo (singing, dancing,
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and storytelling): A route to joyful learning. Exchange, 39(2), 79-82.
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亚瑟,K., Keener Mast, D., Pai-Samant,年代., & Howley C. (2017). Building connections
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Between families and schools: A case study of the tellin’ stories family engagement program. Detroit, Michigan: W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
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O ' Donnel, B., Pai-Samant,年代.霍伍德，T.J.泰勒，J.孙，J., Hahn, K, Kocot, C.马尔瓦，E. (2016). Texas public prekindergarten class size and student-to-teacher ratio study. Austin, Texas: Texas 教育 Agency.
