Catherine Snow

Morningstar Teaching Award, Harvard Graduate School of Education,(2004)

Honorary Degree, University of Nijmegen,(2003)

Carnegie Corporation of New York, Institute for Statewide Literacy Initiatives,(2002)

Charles A. Ferguson Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics,(2001)

Spencer Senior Scholar Award,(1999)

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grant

Career Development of College STEM and Education Major Students in High Poverty Regions in China (2021-2026)
China New Higher Education Group

This project will undertake an innovative effort to align the preservice educational preparation of future early childhood educators to the curriculum they will be implementing as full-time lead teachers. This effort is possible because a well-developed curriculum, the CEREC curriculum, which is conceptualized and developed by Si Chen and Catherine Snow, is now being successfully implemented in preschools in rural Chinese villages. The CEREC curriculum is based on a well-articulated theory of classroom quality.This study will test whether preparing preservice teachers to use the CEREC curriculum generates better instructional quality and learning outcomes than the current, business-as-usual approach of providing primarily theory in preservice training. The students (n = 3000) who will receive this innovatively aligned preservice curriculum are attending Yunnan Technology and Business University (YTBU), funded by the China New Higher Education Ltd, one of a small chain of low-cost private institutions of higher education serving primarily low-income and minority students who do not achieve entrance to public universities.We plan to recruit 3,000 early childhood education (ECE) major students of YTBU to participate in this randomized control trial study. We will randomly assign half of the students (~1500) to the treatment group receiving professional development training about the CEREC curriculum, child-teacher interaction strategies, and pedagogical content knowledge. We will use labdesigned coding schemes to compare the teaching performance between treatment and businessas-usual control group. We plan to collect longitudinal data to compare the job performance and turnover ratio between the treatment and control groups.

High-quality instruction across prekindergarten auspice: An implementation study (2019-2023)
Foundation for Child Development

In April 2019, the Mayor of Boston announced the city would pursue offering preschool to all four-year olds in the city, with seats added primarily at community-based preschools partnering with the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood (DEC). In Fall 2019, the city will add 480 preschool seats, with another 500 seats planned over thefollowing several years. New sites are expected to implement core elements of the BPS preK model, including language-, literacy-, and math-specific curricula shown to be effective, supported by coaching and training. UPK teachers also receive salary support, commensurate with the starting salary on the BPS scale (though not equalized benefits). With support from FCD, we will study this expansion to identify the pre-intervention capacities that influence highquality implementation of the BPS’s preK model in community-based preschools, to identify any adaptations needed to support the CBOs. Our focal population is the directors, teachers, and children in the initial set of expansion sites. Support from FCD would fund classroom observations, surveys, qualitative data collection, child assessments, analysis, writing, anddissemination to key audiences. We expect our findings will by relevant to other contexts, as almost all preK systems nationally are mixed auspice but there is almost no research to guide policy and practice to ensure such mixed systems are strong and equitable.

Chair, RAND Reading Study Group,(2000-2002)

Editor, Applied Psycholinguistics,(1984-2002)

President, American Educational Research Association,(1999-2000)

Chair, Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences

Cofounder, Child Language Data Exchange System