Crista Scott, M.Ed., BCBA

Crista Scott, M.Ed., BCBA

Crista Scott, M.Ed., BCBA, is a Research Coordinator at the University of Washington’s Childcare Quality and Early Learning Center for Research and Professional Development (CQEL). Crista taught for eight years in early childhood special education. Most of those eight years were spent as a teacher in an inclusive preschool and coordinator for Project DATA at the University of Washington's Haring Center for Research and Training in Inclusive Education. Crista has a Master's degree in education, with an emphasis in early childhood special education, and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

In addition to teaching in special education, Crista is interested in providing effective professional development activities. She was a product manager for the Office of Head Start's National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning, supporting the development and dissemination of professional development materials for educators in early learning. Crista supported an Institute of Education Sciences grant that investigated the use of self and in-person coaching strategies to increase the use of embedded teaching practices in early childhood special education classrooms. Currently she is coordinating an evaluation project on the implementation of Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND), a program that supports interactions between childcare providers and children in infant/toddler environments. This project is in partnership with Washington State's Department of Early Learning (DEL) and the University of Oregon.