Terri J. Sabol

Terri J. Sabol is an 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 lab; faculty codirector of the Northwestern Early Child Research Alliance of Chicago; a faculty fellow at the Northwestern Institute for Policy Research; and a faculty affiliate with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. Sabol is a developmental psychologist whose research looks at the intersection of child development and social policy, investigating how individual and environmental factors contribute to children’s healthy development and applying this scientific evidence to strengthen early childhood education programs and policies. She was previously a first grade teacher. Sabol received her MAT teaching credential from Dominican University and her PhD in applied development science from the University of Virginia.

updated 2004