Meet the experts
Our Team
The robust Continued Early Childhood Education course library is developed and overseen by an experienced team of early childhood education specialists and industry professionals.
Jessica Lewis
MEd, ECSE
Senior Managing Editor
Kimberly Norris
MEd
CEU Administrator
Juliet Brewster
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Featured Presenters
The instructors and guest editors who present our ECE courses are skilled experts in topics such as child development, child care training, and professional development for early childhood providers.
Judy Ross is an award-winning early childhood educator with 37 years of experience teaching Preschool-2nd grade. She holds a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential and an MS in Education (Curriculum and Instruction, Early Childhood Emphasis). Judy writes and presents workshops for local, state, and national conferences and organizations, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Southern California Kindergarten Association, Region 9 Head Start, the Association of Christian Schools International, and more. Judy currently works with 4-5-year-olds at Upside Preschool in Prescott Valley, AZ. During the summer, Judy teaches STEAM classes for 5-12-year-olds as part of Yavapai College's College for Kids Program in Prescott, AZ.
Dana Staser is the Founder/President of Dana Staser Consulting, LLC. She is a workforce and leadership development expert with over 15 years of experience in providing coaching and consultation to early care and education agencies nationally. She has worked with various early care and education agencies across the country to increase high quality service delivery to children and families by increasing staff and leadership skills and capacities. She is an advocate for innovative, intentional, and meaningful professional development for staff and leadership to impact outcomes for the children and families they serve. Dana has facilitated workshops, trainings, and is a national conference speaker on workforce development and leadership capacity building to increase high quality and sustainability in programs.
Nadia Tourinho is a trilingual Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), who speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Nadia has over nine years of experience and has extensive experience in direct and community practice. She specializes in complex trauma, childhood trauma, sexual/physical abuse, domestic violence, autism spectrum disorder, sex trafficking, family/couple therapy, geriatric, grief therapy, depression, anxiety, chronic illness, and life changes. In addition, Nadia is a professor and is very familiar with teaching staff/students both face to face and virtual, advocating on the behalf of clients/students regarding their educational/clinical needs, and facilitating workshops, trainings, and meetings with clients/students in administrative settings. Nadia has taken the lead on training incoming staff/students on compliance, therapeutic interventions, and data entry. She is well-practiced in various treatment modalities, such as motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment, cognitive-behavioral, dialectic, trauma-informed therapy, and play therapy. Lastly, Nadia is one of the founders of TrueYou Center, a growing mental health clinic.
Advisory Board
All Continued Early Childhood Education content is vetted by a distinguished Advisory Board that provides topic-specific content and curriculum development.
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