FROM RESEARCH TO POLICY AND PRACTICE
The DEEP Collaborative has 3 current focus areas:
- POLICY: Exploring the Impact of Chicago’s new universal prekindergarten (pre k) expansion to better understand a) how early childhood education interventions operate in practice and b) potential opportunities for improvement sector-wide.
- CLASSROOM: Supporting equitable interactions in the classroom by capturing teachers’ perceptions of individual children and children’s own meaning-making of the classroom environment.
- CHILD: Expanding the measures of child outcomes used in early childhood evaluations—moving toward the key foundations of learning and development (FOLD) that children need to succeed, such as curiosity, problem solving and internal representations of self.
Additionally, Professor Sabol co-directs the The Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago (EC*REACH), which serves as a research hub in the city of Chicago to find research-powered answers to community-driven questions.
Dr. Sabol is also affiliated with the The Northwestern Two-Generation Research Initiative (NU2GEN), which promotes, scales, and studies two-generational (family-centered) education investments to advance economic mobility of families.