Meet the Trainers Institute Presenters
Christina Kelley
Chris Kelley serves as Director of Family Partnerships and Training Director for Children, Inc. in Covington, KY.
Over the course of her long career in early childhood education, she has been a classroom teacher, center and agency director, trainer and consultant. She is a national trainer for the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative, helping teachers and mental health practitioners implement a strength-based, social-emotional assessment and planning program.
Chris also is one of Kentucky’s Master Trainers, assisting credentialed early care and education trainers to design and deliver training based on adult learning principles and effective training techniques. A graduate of Bank Street College’s Early Childhood Leadership program, Chris trains and mentors teachers on aligning early childhood standards with child-centered curriculum and integrating formal and informal child assessment data into meaningful, intentional programs for children. Her “Watch Me Grow at Home and School” instrument is a tool to bring families into the process of understanding how child development, assessment, and everyday routines and activities at home promote school readiness.
Chris has researched the effectiveness of Dialogic Reading in children’s language acquisition and early literacy skills, and as a way to give even high-risk families an easy and practical method to promote important readiness skills.
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Dee Kelsey
Dee Kelsey has been facilitating and offering training programs for many years. She turned early interests in training into more formal work as a trainer and personnel representative for Hewlett-Packard in California, as a mediator and trainer of mediators for the city of Palo Alto, California, and as a staff trainer for the Department of Human Services in Maine. She travels extensively to assist people in working together more effectively. She provides services in organizational development, facilitation, process consultation and training to hundreds of clients, from small work groups to large corporations. Since 1996, she has been a senior consultant for Great Meetings Inc. She and Pam Plumb are co-authors of Great Meetings! Great Results (2004), now in its fourth printing.
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Karen M. Russell
Karen M. Russell currently serves as the Facilitation Center Director of the Training Resource Center (TRC) at Eastern Kentucky University. She provides myriad facilitation services including pre-session design planning, meeting facilitation, and report writing for many internal and external agencies. Karen is a qualified trainer in Group Facilitation Methods and provides workshop training in Planning & Conducting Great Meetings, Group Facilitation Methods and Developing a Curriculum (DACUM) Occupational Analysis. Karen has been instrumental in developing and designing Funneling Ideas into Action: Facilitation Certificate Program at Eastern Kentucky University. She recently served as a presenter at the National DACUM Invitational Seminar held in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Educating At-Risk Youth Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Karen has served on the TRC Leadership Team and Professional Advisory Council.
Karen holds a Master’s Degree in Career and Technical Education, with an emphasis in Occupational Training and Development, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Eastern Kentucky University in Community Health Education. She also holds an Associate Degree in Dental Hygiene from the University of Louisville. |
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Patti Singleton
Patti Singleton currently serves as an Early Childhood Data Coordinator for the Kentucky Early Childhood Data System, Kentucky Partnership for Early Childhood Services and Training into Practice Projects, housed at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. She has experience in database design and implementation, and has presented at both state and national conferences on Kentucky's early childhood data systems.
Mrs. Singleton has a B.S. and M.S. in Correctional and Juvenile Justices Studies from Eastern Kentucky University and is currently enrolled in the Instructional Systems Design doctoral program at the University of Kentucky.
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Dr. Patricia Snyder
Patricia Snyder, Ph.D., holds the David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. She has a sustained record of scholarship and practice focused on cross-sector and interdisciplinary professional development in early childhood. Currently, she and her colleagues are examining how professional development in early childhood has been designed, implemented, and evaluated through a systematic review of the empirical literature. In addition, Dr. Snyder has several research projects funded by the Institute of Education Sciences that are focused on examining promising professional development approaches for advancing early childhood practitioners’ implementation of evidence-informed practices.
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