In this episode we talk with Dr. Junlei Li, the Co-Chair of the Human Development and Education Program and the Saul Zaentz Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As a developmental psychologist, Dr. Li’s research and practice focus on understanding and supporting the work of helpers – those who serve children and families on the frontlines of education and social services. He says, “I think they are the ultimate people who link developmental science to practice in order to make a real difference...I studied and learned from children’s “helpers” across a wide range of developmental settings with low resources but high-quality practices, including orphanages, childcare, classrooms, and community youth programs.”

From that work, Dr. Li and his colleagues developed the “Simple Interactions” approach (www.simpleinteractions.org) to help identify what ordinary people do extraordinarily well with children in everyday moments and made that the basis for promoting positive system change.

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