For the past fifteen years Michelle Albright has been developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions that aim to enhance children’s cognitive, physical, and social development, as well as their educational engagement and performance. A complementary focus of her work has been to facilitate the exchange of tools and resources among researchers, educators, and families, and enhance the capacity of parents and teachers to foster children’s achievement. Personally and professionally she strives to educate children in the broadest sense of the word (and world), and help them develop the competence and confidence to achieve success in their education, relationships, and occupations.

Michelle received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, completed an APA approved internship at University of Maryland, and was a National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellow in Quantitative Training in Mental Health Research at New York University. She has consulted for Harvard Family Research Project, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, and the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and the Consultation Center at Yale University.

Michelle has taught at the college and graduate level, and presented numerous workshops for families and educators. Her recent publications include School-family partnership strategies to enhance children’s social, emotional, and academic growth for the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention and School-family partnerships to promote social and emotional learning in the Handbook of School-Family Partnerships For Promoting Student Competence. She is also a regular contributor to Patch.com and has appeared on a variety of programs including Education Notebook (Connecticut News Channel 12), Fox Connecticut Morning News, and The 10! Show (NBC Philadelphia).

Michelle resides in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

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