Terri J. Sabol

Terri J. Sabol is associate professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Policy at Northwestern University. She is also director of the Northwestern Development, Early Education, and Policy (DEEP) lab and faculty co-director of the Northwestern Early Child Research Alliance of Chicago (EC-REACH); a faculty fellow at the Northwestern Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and a faculty affiliate with the Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University in St. Louis. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern IPR and a research affiliate with the National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education (NCRECE). Dr. Sabol is a developmental psychologist who conducts research at the intersection of child development and social policy. She investigates how individual and environmental factors contribute to children’s healthy development and applies this scientific evidence to strengthen early childhood education (ECE) programs and policies in the United States. Her broad goal as a scholar is to produce innovative research to help optimize investments in ECE and support children in the 21st century. Dr. Sabol holds a PhD in applied development science from the University of Virginia along with a BA in literature, science, and the arts from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor; an MAT teaching credential in kindergarten–grade 9 from Dominican University via Teach for America. Prior to entering graduate school, she was a first-grade teacher in Chicago.

updated 2004