Laura Colosi is Chief Operating Officer for ThinkWorks. Additionally, she is an Extension Associate at Cornell University where she works to improve parent education for the statewide Cooperative Extension Administration. She is also developing an assessment and reporting system for parent education programs in New York in hopes of developing a model for national implementation. In addition to her work at Cornell, Laura serves as a consultant to external organizations on applying systems thinking to evaluate educational and outreach programs.
Colosi's prior research interests included the impact of social policies on parents and their children, with a particular interest in low-income families. She has conducted evaluations of several New York State programs including: parent education series such as the Parenting Skills Workshop Series, the Strengthening Families Program and the Literacy Institute; the statewide Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, Eat Smart New York; a 3 year evaluation of the Teenage Homelessness Prevention Program in Ronkonkoma, New York; as well as the NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children's Post Adoption and Preservation Services.
Laura Colosi holds both a Masters in Public Administration from Cornell University's Institute for Public Affairs and a Ph.D. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.
I have sort of a two-fold answer to that. It's sort of a philosophical level success of this company for me is really teaching children to think differently and to explicitly get across the value of teaching thinking skills to children, either through parents or teachers. So on the broad sense the...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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