Jolene Johnson

Quality Early Care and Education Revisited: What It Means and What It Takes

Dr. Jolene Johnson is the director of education and child development for the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Her evaluation and research focus on how interventions and processes affect student outcomes, quality in classrooms, and teacher well-being. She leads several evaluation projects nationally, statewide, and locally including Mindfulness & Mastery, which examines the impact of mindfulness practices and reflective consultation on early childhood educators. She leads the MMI team for the Preschool Development Grant – Performance Evaluation strand. Johnson holds a doctorate in educational leadership in addition to an Ed.S. in school psychology, both from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.