Anne Douglass

Anne Douglass

Executive Director
Early Education Leaders Professor
Early Childhood Policy College of Education and Human Development
University of Massachusetts Boston
anne.douglass@umb.edu 

https://www.umb.edu/directory/annedouglass/

Related Research Interests

Anne Douglass, PhD, is professor of early childhood policy and founding executive director of Early Education Leaders, an institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is an expert on the early care and education workforce, leadership, and quality improvement, and brings years of experience leading innovations in higher education and professional development access and equity, as well as twenty years of prior experience as an early childhood educator in Boston. She received her PhD in Social Policy from the Heller School at Brandeis University.

Related Publications

  • Douglass, A. (2017). Leading for change in early care and education: Cultivating leadership from within. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Lee, Y., Douglass, A., Zeng, S., Lopes, A., & Reyes, A. (2022). Preparing early educators as frontline leaders and change agents with a leadership development initiative. International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, Vol. 16. https://ijccep.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40723-022-00095-z
  • Douglass, A., Chickerella, R., & Maroney, M. (2021) Becoming trauma-informed: a case study of early educator professional development and organizational change, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 42:2, 182-202, DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2021.1918296
  • Douglass, A., Kirby, G., Malone, L. (2023). Theory of change of early care and education leadership for quality improvement.  OPRE Report #2023-097. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US. Department of Health and Human Services, 2023.https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/theory-change-early- care-and-education-leadership-quality-improvement
  • Douglass, A. (2018). Positive relationships at work in early childhood education. In Meghan Warren and Stewart Donaldson (Ed.), Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships: New Directions in Theory and Research. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers Inc.
  • Gittell, J. H.; Douglass, A. (2012).  Embedding reciprocal relationships into roles: the relational bureaucratic form.  Academy of Management Review, 37(4), 709-733.
  • Douglass, A.; Gittell, J. H. (2012).  Transforming professionalism: relational bureaucracy and parent-teacher partnerships in child care settings.  Journal of Early Childhood Research, 10 (3), 267-281.
  • Douglass, A.; Klerman, L. (2012). The Strengthening Families initiative and child care quality improvement:  how Strengthening Families influenced change in child care programs in one state. Early Education and Development, 23, 373-392.
  • Douglass, A. (2011).  Improving family engagement: the organizational context and its influence on partnering with parents in formal child care settings. Early Childhood Research and Practice,13 (2). Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ956369