Dr. Rebecca Rolland

Biography

Rebecca Givens Rolland is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a nationally-certified speech-language pathologist with over fifteen years of experience working with children, families, educators, and clinicians. She is the author of 'Art of Talking to Children' (HarperOne, 2022), which has been translated into eleven languages, and is currently working on a professional development book for early childhood teachers, forthcoming from Brookes Publishing. Her research on classroom climate has been published in the 'Review of Educational Research', and she frequently writes for popular press outlets, including the Hechinger Report and Education Week. Rolland is also a keynote speaker and has presented at various international conferences, including EdCamp in Ukraine and the Tokyo Association of International Preschools in Japan. She has been involved in the Harvard Medical School's Effective Writing in Health Care program as the founding module director, where she designed and taught writing workshops for doctors and researchers. Additionally, she has served as an oral and written language specialist at the Neurology Department of Children's Hospital Boston and worked at Kingsley Montessori School as an academic learning specialist. Her extensive academic background includes an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.S. in speech-language pathology from MGH Institute of Health Professions, an M.A. in English from Boston University, and a B.A. in English from Yale University.

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