Dr. Michelle Albright’s areas of interest and expertise include the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs to promote children’s language and literacy development, social-emotional learning, and academic achievement. Her research and clinical work also focuses on promoting family involvement in children’s learning, and school-family partnerships. An additional aim of her work has been to enhance educator preparation and professional development and facilitate the exchange of tools and resources among educators, clinicians, and researchers.

Dr. Albright 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.

Dr. Albright 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 as an education and parenting expert on a variety of programs including Education Notebook (Connecticut News Channel 12), Fox Connecticut Morning News, and The 10! Show (NBC Philadelphia).

Dr. Albright resides in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

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