OUR TEAM
SUSAN KIMMEL, PHD
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CECPD)
Among Dr. Kimmel's areas of expertise are early childhood education, classroom coaching, school readiness, and managing change.
JENNIFER QUILLIAN, MS
ASSOCIATE DEVELOPER
Jennifer Quillian has been involved with instructional coaching since 2004. She is an associate developer of the Instructional Coaching Institute. Her areas of expertise are early childhood, early literacy, and literacy coaching.
JENNIFER STEPP, PHD
ASSOCIATE DEVELOPER
Dr. Stepp is an associate developer of the Instructional Coaching Institute. Her areas of expertise are early childhood, early literacy, literacy education, and literacy coaching.
BELINDA BISCOE, PHD
SENIOR ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OUTREACH
Dr. Biscoe has helped to secure federal funding for four early literacy research grants. She has a background in experimental child psychology, common and higher education, leadership, and research and evaluation.
Biscoe's areas of expertise include research and evaluation, higher education administration, nonprofit administration, public school administration, school reform, early literacy, public school issues, substance abuse prevention, mental health, resilience, homelessness, workforce development, juvenile justice, lifespan developmental psychology (with an emphasis on early childhood and adolescence), and substance abuse treatment, including client management, women and family issues, polydrug abusers, co-occurring disorders, and self-help organizations.