Susan Sheridan of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been elected to the National Academy of Education.
Sheridan is the first Husker faculty member to be selected for this honor. She is the George Holmes College Professor of Educational Psychology and founding director of the Nebraska Children, Youth, Families, and Schools Research Center, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
“The work I have been able to do has only been possible because of the many relationships and partnerships I have had over the past 30 years,” she said. “Collaborating with colleagues and students who share this vision and help advance it has leveraged our efforts in ways I could never have imagined.”
Premier Rodney D. Bennett said: Sheridan has been an international leader in serving families and children for decades. Her commitment to improving the lives of the most vulnerable is further evidence that UNL's work is positively impacting Nebraska and other states. We are extremely proud that she has been recognized with this prestigious and well-deserved honor. ”
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development Shelley Jones said this was a well-deserved honor for Mr. Sheridan.
“Sue truly embodies our university’s research mission of discovery, creativity and innovation that advances our state, nation and world,” Jones said. “And, like all of our outstanding faculty, so many students who learned from and with her have been inspired to continue that work.”
Sheridan, who has been at Nebraska since 1998 after spending several years at the University of Utah, began his career early in his career as an “early childhood school psychologist,” working with schools to benefit children. I was interested in helping families work together. “Then, paradoxically, I realized that in order to make a difference in the lives of children, we must support adults.”
“It's been a lifelong dream to do that,” Sheridan said.
Since then, Sheridan has expanded its strengths to support families and children who are marginalized by economic, developmental, educational, or geographic factors, as well as people representing cultural or demographic diversity. We have been working on developing an approach based on She has developed her two family engagement/partnership interventions, “Teachers and Parents as Partners” and “Preparation,” and has worked with several teams and students to investigate the effectiveness of such interventions. I've been doing it.
She founded the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools in Nebraska in 2004. The center has served more than 5,700 preschool through 12th grade educators and more than 105,000 children and youth.
“The real value of our work lies in the opinions of the people participating in our research: parents, teachers, school psychologists, counselors, principals and others who trust us and agree to work with us. “It's about listening,” Sheridan said. “Hearing their stories about how the experience changed their lives for the better is incredibly humbling and rewarding.”
She is also proud of how many of her students have continued to improve and expand their work. She works with many of her former students, and she still works with her doctoral advisor at the University of Wisconsin, she said. Mr. Sheridan will officially be inducted into the academy at the annual general meeting on October 25th.
Established in 1965, the mission of the National Academy of Education is to promote quality research to improve educational policy and practice. The Academy is comprised of U.S. and international members selected on the basis of educational scholarship. The Academy conducts research to address pressing education issues and administers professional development fellowships to enhance the preparation of the next generation of education scholars.
