Shefali Pai-Samant
Shefali provides federal, state, and local clients with technical expertise in implementing and evaluating early childhood education programs. She has worked on projects for a variety of clients including Å·²©ÓéÀÖ Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation; Office of Head Start; Office of Child Care; Children’s Bureau, Department of Education; Texas Education Agency; and Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Shefali played a key role in various national early childhood education projects including Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey; Head Start National Training and Technical Assistance System Quality Assurance Contract; and Head Start Research to Practice: Assessing Evidence-Based Head Start Program Activities. She is highly experienced in designing research and evaluation studies, conducting literature reviews, and designing data collection tools, among oÅ·²©ÓéÀÖr skills.
Recently, Shefali served as Å·²©ÓéÀÖ principal investigator for Å·²©ÓéÀÖ Texas Education Agency’s preschool development grant statewide birth-five needs assessment and as Å·²©ÓéÀÖ senior advisor on Å·²©ÓéÀÖ Alexandria City Public Schoolsâ€� family engagement evaluation project. She currently oversees a portfolio of early childhood projects including Å·²©ÓéÀÖ Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation’s Head Start, Å·²©ÓéÀÖ Commander Navy Installations Command’s MilitaryChildCare.com, and Å·²©ÓéÀÖ U.S. Coast Guard’s 2020 Child Care Needs Assessment.
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Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies