Anne Douglass, Ph.D.

Anne Douglass, Ph.D.

Anne Douglass, Ph.D., is a professor of early childhood education and founding executive director at the Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Douglass’s research and teaching focus on leadership and quality improvement. She has significant experience in designing, evaluating and overseeing innovative quality improvement and professional development interventions and projects in the ECE sector, with particular expertise in quality improvement and leadership in center-based, family child care, and Head Start settings. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in early childhood STEM education and served as the principal investigator on a professional development project to promote STEM teaching and learning with children from birth to age 5. Dr. Douglass brings almost 20 years of expertise as an early educator to this work, including as a teacher of children from birth to age 5, a program director, a family child care provider, and a quality improvement coach. Dr. Douglass received her Ph.D. from the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University, her master’s degree in education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and her bachelor’s degree in political science from Wellesley College.