Susan Sheridan

Currently Funded

• Cultivating Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators (CHIME): Evaluating the Use of Mindfulness and Compassion to Promote Early Head Start/Head Start Education Staffs' Well-Being
• Nebraska SPDG (State Personnel Development Grant)
• TAPP Online: Efficacy of Virtual Professional Development in Rural Schools to Enhance Teacher-Parent Partnerships for Students with Behavioral Challenges
• Tele-TAPP Appalachia: Efficacy of Teleconsultation with Parents and Teachers to Promote Student Social-Behavioral Outcomes
• The Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics & Psychometrics–Applied Analytics and Data Infrastructure Services
• TransformED: Transforming the Early Childhood Education Workforce

Completed

• A Meta-Analysis of Parent Involvement Interventions and Family School Partnerships Effects on Student Outcomes
• A Randomized Trial of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC) in Rural Educational Settings: Efficacy for Elementary Students with Disruptive Behaviors
• Assessing Special Education Teacher Pre-Service Programs and In-Service Supports Available in Nebraska
• At the Intersection of Neighborhoods and Schools: Relationships as Moderators between Neighborhood and Children’s Social-Emotional Development
• Coaching in Early Intervention (CEI): Promoting Outcomes for Infants/Toddlers with Disabilities through Evidence-Based Practices
• Conjoint Behavioral Consultation via Distance Delivery (CBC-D): An Evaluation of Efficacy and Acceptability
• Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: A Cross-Systemic Intervention to Manage Overweight and Obesity for Low Income Preschoolers
• Continuity Across Family and School Systems to Promote the Learning and Development of Children and Adolescents
• Culturally Responsive Practices: Early Learning Contexts in Rural and Urban Nebraska
• Determining the Operative Elements to Improve Parent-Teacher Relationships During Conjoint Behavioral Consultation
• Development of a Three-Tiered Model in Early Intervention to Address Language and Literacy Needs of Children at Risk
• Early Learning Network Lead
• Efficacy of the Getting Ready Intervention at Supporting Parental Engagement and Positive Outcomes for Preschool Children at Educational Risk
• Enhancing the 4-H Common Measures: An Evaluation Proposal
• Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Teacher Efficacy for Promoting Partnership Measure
• Getting Ready 0-3 (GR03): Supporting the Development of Infants/Toddlers Through an Integrated Parent-Teacher Relationship-based Approach
• Learning Frontiers: Pre-K to Grade 3
• National Center for Research on Rural Education
• New INSIGHTS: Testing the Efficacy of INSIGHTS for Promoting Positive Learning Environments and Academic Achievement in Nebraska
• Research Agenda on Family-School Partnerships: An Interdisciplinary Examination
• Rural Ed Technical Paper
• Starting School Socially and Behaviorally Ready: The Impacts of Malleable Home-Based Relationships and Community Setting
• TAPP Para Familias Latinas: Benefitting Students, Families and Schools
• TAPP Wisconsin: Systematic Efficacy Replication Study of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation in Elementary Schools
• Testing the Efficacy of INSIGHTS for Promoting Positive Learning Environments and Academic Achievement in Nebraska: A Replication Study
• The Cultural Adaptation of Teachers and Parents as Partners (TAPP) to Brazil
• The Effectiveness of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation on Student Outcomes in Rural Communities: A Follow-Up Study
• The Effects of COVID-19 on Education in Nebraska and the Potential for Recovery

Only CYFS-housed projects are included in the network. Please contact Dr. Sheridan to inquire about additional research projects.

• Bass receives funding for study focused on improving outcomes for rural adolescents
• Boosting children’s resilience in the face of socioeconomic risk
• Closing the preschool skill gap for disadvantaged children
• Coaching model aims to enhance services for Nebraska infants, toddlers
• Coutts researching distance tech delivery of intervention to rural communities
• CYFS awarded $2.5 million to advance early childhood development
• CYFS earns $3.2 million grant to assess Getting Ready intervention
• CYFS earns $6.5 million for early childhood studies, national leadership
• CYFS examining intervention’s effects on early obesity
• CYFS leading meta-analysis on parental engagement in education
• CYFS team earns $3.5M grant to support Latino students
• CYFS’ MAP Academy awarded national 4-H grant
• Family partnership program addresses early childhood obesity
• Grand Challenges Catalyst project aims to strengthen early childhood workforce — and positive results for children
• Moen earns dissertation grant to study partnerships
• Moen presents research at Buffett symposium
• Nebraska researchers expand reach of family-school intervention
• Nebraska researchers extend TAPP intervention to rural Appalachia
• Nebraska-Brazil early childhood research partnership continues progress
• Nebraska-Brazil early childhood research partnership continues to thrive
• Research aims to strengthen Head Start, Early Head Start educators’ well-being
• Research provides INSIGHTS into child temperament
• Researchers explore experiences, needs of Nebraska’s special education teachers
• Sheridan authors guide to help teachers partner with parents
• Sheridan, Kim edit newly released research series
• Statewide survey finds Nebraska educators can adjust to ‘virtually’ anything, but at what cost?
• Study: Strong parent-teacher ties drive positive outcomes for rural children
• TAPP brings new tool to students, parents and teachers in Brazil
• TAPP Online brings enhanced support to rural students, families and schools
• TAPP project delivers strong results for Latinx students, parents
• Team supports 4-H program evaluation
• Technology-delivered intervention fosters home-school partnerships in rural Appalachia