Mandy Reeve

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Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education

Mandy Reeve, PhD, is a senior education researcher and technical assistance specialist who specializes in the development of policies, initiatives, and research studies related to the creation of early childhood care and education (ECCE) mixed-delivery systems that lead to high-quality services for young children and their families. Reeve has more than 15 years of experience managing, planning, and coordinating state system-level policy and program initiatives. She also has significant expertise in serving as a liaison between community partners, state leadership, and researchers.

At SRI, Reeve works on a variety of federal and state projects. As a technical assistance (TA) specialist for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Preschool Development Grants Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) TA Center, she supported states and territories in their efforts to build, enhance, and improve their ECCE mixed-delivery systems. She provided tailored TA to many states and developed universal and targeted TA resources including workgroups, webinars, and briefs. Reeve also provides TA on data quality for the ACF Data Governance Support project. In her state contract work, Reeve serves as the deputy project director for Michigan’s PDG B-5 Needs Assessment, for which she co-leads the Family and Community Engagement Study. She is also the engagement coordinator for Minnesota’s PDG B-5 Mixed Delivery Action Lab (MDAL) & Pay Parity Pilot. Additionally, she is a content expert for the U.S. Department of Education-funded Innovative Technology for Early Childhood Assessment (INTECA) project, a TA project aimed at increasing the knowledge base and building capacity around equitable and innovative approaches for integrating technology into authentic assessments for young children with disabilities.

Before joining SRI, Reeve was the early childhood policy initiatives advisor for the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and managed the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant for the state, leading a team of staff and leadership from three state departments in simultaneously implementing over 30 ECCE initiatives. She also provided extensive leadership in the development and execution of the work plan for Wisconsin’s PDG B-5 grant.

Reeve’s research and content expertise include quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDS), early childhood policy including licensing and subsidy, and early literacy. As a lead graduate research assistant for the Center for Response to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRtIEC), she was responsible for all phases of development and evaluation of early literacy screening measures. Reeve has significant experience developing research designs and methodologies that account for the logistics of ECCE settings as well as methodological rigor and data requirements.

Reeve holds a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota, specializing in early childhood literacy and early childhood special education. She also has an MS in behavior analysis from the University of North Texas and a BA in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

Key projects

  • Michigan PDG B-5 Needs Assessment
  • MN PDG B-5 MDAL & Pay Parity Pilot
  • Innovative Technology for Early Childhood Assessment (INTECA)

Selected publications

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