Shelley Pasnik
senior vice president
tel: (212) 807-4255
Shelley Pasnik, CCT's former Director from 2007–2021, is Senior Vice President of the Education Development Center, where she leads the global nonprofit's business development strategy and communication groups. At CCT, she directs a team that advances knowledge of how the thoughtful use of technology can support educators in enhancing learning, engaging families, and closing opportunity gaps. Her long-term research on young children and technology is providing evidence of effective strategies to foster school readiness and success—especially for young children living in impoverished communities—that is helping inform policy-making and practice in the U.S. and around the world.
In 2019, Shelley edited the collected volume, Getting Ready to Learn: Creating Effective, Educational Children’s Media (Routledge), which describes how educational media have played and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children, parents, and teachers. The book is based on a $100 million federal program that uses media to improve the literacy and STEM skills of children in high-need communities. Shelley invited Sir Ken Robinson and Dr. Alice Wilder to write the foreword and recruited more than 45 leading children’s media producers, programmers, researchers, and community outreach experts to contribute. She also shares insights from this work at national forums, such as the White House Symposium on Early STEM Learning, the American Educational Research Association, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, and the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
A spokesperson for the thoughtful integration of digital media in education, Shelley frequently talks with news outlets, including The New York Times, Axios, Christian Science Monitor, EdWeek, Reuters, NPR, and The Washington Post. She has served on advisory boards, including Apple ConnectEd, Games for Change, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, and Global Action Project.
SHELLEY'S PROJECTS
SHELLEY'S PUBLICATIONS

SELECT WRITING
New York, NY: Routledge.
New York, NY, & Menlo Park, CA: Education Development Center, Inc., & SRI International.
National Center for Families Learning.
https://www.familieslearning.org/blog/guest-post-new-study-on-parents-confidence-and-support-for-childrens-science-learning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/07/survey-parents-want-to-help-kids-learn-science-but-many-have-no-idea-how/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0d10ae2cf889
EDC white paper.
http://cct.edc.org/sites/cct.edc.org/files/publications/EarlySTEMTechWhitePaper.pdf
New York, NY, & Menlo Park, CA: Education Development Center, Inc. & SRI International.
http://cct.edc.org/sites/cct.edc.org/files/ms-resources/edc-sri-rtl-reflections-report-2010-2015.pdf
Journal of Children and Media, 10(2), 229-237.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17482798.2016.1140483
New York, NY, & Menlo Park, CA: Education Development Center, Inc., & SRI International.
http://cct.edc.org/sites/cct.edc.org/files/publications/RTLReflections.pdf
New York, NY & Menlo Park, CA: Education Development Center, Inc. & SRI International.
http://cct.edc.org/sites/cct.edc.org/files/ms-resources/edc-sri-rtl-peg-math-study-report-2015.pdf
Post about Family Time with Apps: A Guide to Using Apps with Your Kids, published on the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop blog.
http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/2015/02/24/for-the-love-of-routines-and-research/
Post on the importance for researchers of keeping equity at the forefront when studying media for early learning, on the Fred Rogers Center blog.
http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/blog/six-questions-for-the-edtech-field-to-think-about-when-designing-for-the-0-/
Post on findings from the Ready To Learn Prekindergarten Transmedia Mathematics Study, in the Fred Rogers Center Blog.
http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/blog/study-shows-tech-in-the-classroom-boosts-math-skills-for-youngest-learners
Post on teaching early math skills in the preschool classroom, on the Fred Rogers Center blog.
Early Child Research Quarterly, 27:1 (pp. 115-127)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885200611000585
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-jun09
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-dec08
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-sept08
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-july_aug08
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-may08
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-apr08
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC. Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-jan08
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-dec07
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-nov07
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC. Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-july_aug07
School Counselor. Alexandria, VA: American School Counselor Association.
http://cct.edc.org/publications/survival-skilled
(Commentary) Education Week. Bethesda, MD: Editorial Projects in Education.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/05/23/38fadel.h26.html
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC. Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-Apr07
Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA.
Cable in the Classroom Magazine. Washington, DC. Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-Jan07
Cable in the Classroom Magazine.Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/cicmagazine-oct06
Threshold. Washington, DC: Cable in the Classroom.
http://www.ciconline.org/thresholdspring06
http://www.edweek.org/chat/transcript_01_12_2006.html
Discovery Education. St. Peterborough, NH: United Streaming.
In K. Tyner (Ed.) A closer look: Media arts 2003 - case studies from NAMAC's youth media initiative. San Francisco: National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture.