Arlitt Staff

Administrators

Victoria Carr

Professor, Early Childhood Education (Birth-5) & Executive Director, Arlitt Center for Education, Research & Sustainability , CECH Arlitt Center

2150H EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center

513-556-3805

carrvw@ucmail.uc.edu

Victoria Carr, Professor of Early Childhood Education (Birth-Age 5) and Developmental and Learning Sciences at the University of Cincinnati, is Executive Director of the Arlitt Center for Education, Research, and Sustainability which houses the Arlitt Child Development Center, one of the oldest early childhood laboratory schools in the country. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the UC School of Environment and Sustainability. She is co-editor-in-chief for Children, Youth and Environments, a journal that publishes research articles and reports from the field on environments where children and youth live, learn, work, and play. She serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of Research in Childhood Education and is an active member of the Transnational Dialogues on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS), now affiliated with the Sustainability in Early Childhood Special Interest Group within the European Early Childhood Research Association.

She is co-chair of Leave No Child Inside Collaborative of Cincinnati and created the Education for Environmental Sustainability certificate, a UC interdisciplinary undergraduate opportunity for students. She co-founded the Cincinnati Nature Playscape Initiative and implemented the Arlitt Professional Educator Learning Series. Dr. Carr served for several years on Cincinnati Nature Center's Board of Directors and continues to work closely with its programming and applied learning committee. She has served as the faculty advisor for the UC Equestrian Team since 2006.

Dr. Carr mentors doctoral students and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses within the School of Education, primarily focused on nature-based early learning. She conducts research and publishes books and articles on ECEfS, children and nature, teacher efficacy, and challenging behaviors in early childhood settings. She has generated over $20M in funding related to programming and research in early childhood education during her UC career. Her research on informal science learning in playscapes was supported by the National Science Foundation and she has had multiple projects supported by the PNC Foundation. She conducted research on a community-built playground in Papua New Guinea with her Australian colleagues and continues to collaborate with Arlitt Center researchers and graduate assistants to work with agencies and groups interested in transforming playgrounds into playscapes.

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Mary Elizabeth Wright

Director of Children's Programs, CECH Arlitt Center

1159 EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center

513-556-3804

wrightme@ucmail.uc.edu

Mary Elizabeth Wright is the Director of Children's Programs at the Arlitt Child and Family Research and Education Center. Previous to accepting this position, Mary Beth was a lead teacher at the Arlitt Center and served as the Managing Editor / Head Writer of Arlitt Instructional Media, our professional development initiative. Mary Beth also is an adjunct professor for UC's early childhood bachelor's degree programs. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Cincinnati.

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