Jennifer Anthony

Ms. Anthony is a Technical Assistance Specialist (TAS) on the Safe School Healthy Students Technical Assistance Team. She is also a research analyst at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where she has worked on a range of technical assistance, research, and evaluation projects for local, state, and federal agencies for fifteen years. Her areas of expertise include early childhood education, child development, and needs assessment. For example, she has worked on a multi-year project that assists state and local agencies interested in making high quality preschool experiences available to all children in California by producing a statewide community needs assessment of child care. She has also worked with county agencies to assess need and use the findings to inform and develop a comprehensive planning process. Ms. Anthony also co-authored the recent (June 2010) California Department of Education (CDE) publication, Guidelines for Early Learning in Child Care Home Settings, which represents the adaptation of the existing CDE guidelines for center-based preschool providers to licensed and license-exempt home-based providers serving three- and four-year-olds. She has a master’s degree in psychology from San José State University.