Highest Degree:
M.Ed. from Umass in 1983

Other Credentials:
RI Early Childhood Certification

Teaching interests:
Early childhood curriculum, guidance of young children, child development

Research interests:
Early childhood curriculum, guidance of young children, child development

Other scholarly and/or creative work:
Completed a year as a Visiting Scholar at the National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education at the Office of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, 1998-99

Co-organizer and Co-director of the Rhode Island Early Childhood Summer Institutes, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000.

Outreach/Extension/Service:
Collaborative Planning Project for Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems, Town of South Kingstown

CHILDSPAN Advisory Board

Rhode Island Early Childhood Conference Planning Committee

Professional Roles:
Coordinator, URI Child Development Center, Kingston

Selected Publications (1995 to present):
Warford, S.D.G. (2000) Supporting children's growth towards self-discipline. RIAEYC Newsletter, January, 2000, Vol.2, Issue 2.

Horm-Wingerd, D.M., Warford, S.D.G., & Penhallow, P.C. (19999). Making the connection through staffing: Mechanisms to increase consistency between university early childhood education courses and child development lab school practices. Journal of early Childhood teacher education, 1999, Vol.20, pp. 29-39.

Warford, S.D.G. & Horm-Wingerd, D.M. (1997). Consistency for children with Changing Teachers. National Organization of Child development Laboratory Schools Bulletin. No. 29, Spring, 1997.