C. Cybele Raver

Raver, a native of New York City, graduated cum laude from Phillips Academy in 1982.[https://www.noblenet.org/paarchives/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Commencement1982.pdf "Order of Exercises at Exhibition," 6 June 1982] Her APA biography states that "[h]er clearest memories from childhood are of home, school, and the city as emotionally supportive and intellectually vibrant places to be."C. Cybele Raver: Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training. (2012). The American Psychologist, 67(8), 680–681. {{doi|10.1037/a0030120}} Raver received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1986 and attended graduate school at Yale University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1994. In her dissertation supervised by Bonnie Leadbeater, Raver examined interactions between low-income 2-year-olds and their mothers, demonstrating that turn-taking and joint attention predicted self-regulatory behaviors.Raver, C. C. (1994). Mother-child reciprocity and the development of social competence in two-year-olds (Order No. 9430292). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304116839). Raver worked at Cornell University, University of Chicago, and New York University before accepting a position at Vanderbilt in 2021.{{Cite web|title=C. Cybele Raver {{!}} NYU Steinhardt|url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/c-cybele-raver|access-date=2021-02-28|website=steinhardt.nyu.edu|language=en}} She is the sister of actress Kim Raver.

Raver was married to the late Clancy Blair, a developmental psychologist at NYU and the principal investigator at NYU's Neuroscience and Education Lab.{{Cite web|title=Neuroscience & Education Lab|url=https://med.nyu.edu/research/neuroscience-education-lab/neuroscience-education-lab|access-date=2021-03-09|website=NYU Langone Health|language=en}} She has been the recipient of funding from the MacArthur, Spencer, and William T. Grant Foundations, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, specifically the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.{{Cite web|title=Current and Former Scholars|url=http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/william-t-grant-scholars-program/current-and-former-scholars|access-date=2021-03-16|website=William T. Grant Foundation}}{{Cite web|title=C Cybele Raver - Grants|url=https://neurotree.org/beta/grants.php?pid=459616|access-date=2021-03-22|website=neurotree.org}}

Raver designed and implemented the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), a federally-funded intervention launched in 2003 to improve social-emotional well-being in low-income children enrolled in Head Start programs in Chicago.{{Cite web|title=Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) {{!}} NYU Steinhardt|url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ihdsc/projects/csrp|access-date=2021-03-07|website=steinhardt.nyu.edu|language=en}} As part of the project, Head Start teachers underwent training in supportive classroom management techniques and received weekly coaching from mental health consultants.Raver, C. C., Jones, S. M., Li-Grining, C., Metzger, M., Champion, K. M., & Sardin, L. (2008). Improving preschool classroom processes: Preliminary findings from a randomized trial implemented in head start settings. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23(1), 10-26. Raver and her team demonstrated that children in classrooms receiving the support showed improvements in attention and executive function.Raver, C. C., Jones, S. M., Li-Grining, C., Zhai, F., Bub, K., & Pressler, E. (2011). CSRP’s impact on low-income preschoolers’ pre-academic skills: self-regulation as a mediating mechanism. Child development, 82(1), 362-378. In addition, teachers reported fewer behavioral problems in children who received the intervention.Raver, C. C., Jones, S. M., Li-Grining, C., Zhai, F., Metzger, M. W., & Solomon, B. (2009). Targeting children’s behavior problems in preschool classrooms: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(2), 302–316. Researchers have continued to follow the children enrolled in the project over time, and Raver and her colleagues have demonstrated that the supports had a lasting impact; children in the intervention classrooms went on to attend higher-quality high schools than those in the control condition and continued to perform better academically and on measures of executive function years later.Watts, T., Ibrahim, D., Khader, A., Li, C., Gandhi, J., & Raver, C. (2020). Exploring the Impacts of an Early Childhood Educational Intervention on Later School Selection. Educational Researcher, 49(9), 667-677. Raver's work on the CSRP was described by journalist Paul Tough in his 2016 book Helping Children Succeed.{{Cite web|last=Tough|first=Paul|date=2016-05-31|title=Helping Children Succeed – What Works and Why|url=https://paultough.com/helping/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Paul Tough}}

In another study, Raver collaborated with Clancy Blair to analyze data collected as part of the Family Life Project, an effort to examine the impact of early life stressors on the development of 1,292 children born in low-income counties in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.{{Cite web|title=Neuroscience & Education Lab Research|url=https://med.nyu.edu/research/neuroscience-education-lab/research|access-date=2021-03-09|website=NYU Langone Health|language=en}} Raver and Blair demonstrated that exposure to poverty in the first four years of life was predictive of lower scores on measures of executive function.Raver, C. C., Blair, C., & Willoughby, M. (2013). Poverty as a predictor of 4-year-olds’ executive function: New perspectives on models of differential susceptibility. Developmental Psychology, 49(2), 292–304. In an additional joint study on the impact of social-emotional factors on executive function, Raver and Blair determined that the implementation of a social-emotional learning curriculum in kindergarten classrooms led to improvements in executive function as well as lower levels of cortisol in children's saliva samples.Blair, C., & Raver, C. (2014). Closing the achievement gap through modification of neurocognitive and neuroendocrine function: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial of an innovative approach to the education of children in kindergarten. PLOS ONE, 9(11), e112393–e112393. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0112393|doi-access=free}}

Raver and her colleagues developed the Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA), a research tool designed to measure emotional, attentional, and behavioral regulation in 3- and 4-year-old children.{{Cite web|title=Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA) {{!}} NYU Steinhardt|url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ihdsc/projects/csrp/preschool-self-regulation-assessment-psra|access-date=2021-03-06|website=steinhardt.nyu.edu|language=en}}Smith-Donald, R., Raver, C. C., Hayes, T., & Richardson, B. (2007). Preliminary construct and concurrent validity of the Preschool Self-regulation Assessment (PSRA) for field-based research. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 22(2), 173-187. The PSRA was used to assess self-regulation in young children who participated in the CSRP.Raver, C. C., Jones, S. M., Li-Grining, C., Zhai, F., Bub, K., & Pressler, E. (2011). CSRP's Impact on low-income preschoolers' preacademic skills: self-regulation as a mediating mechanism. Child development, 82(1), 362–378. {{doi|10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01561.x}} Raver was also part of a team of researchers at NYU who worked in collaboration with the NYC Department of Education's Division of Early Childhood Education (DOE-DECE) as it launched Pre-K for All, a citywide effort to provide free, high-quality early education experiences to all preschoolers in New York City.{{Cite web|title=NYU UPK Team {{!}} NYU Steinhardt|url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ihdsc/projects/nyupk/team|access-date=2021-03-09|website=steinhardt.nyu.edu|language=en}}

• Raver, C. C. (2002). Emotions matter: Making the case for the role of young children's emotional development for early school readiness. Social Policy Report, 16(3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2379-3988.2002.tb00041.x
• Raver, C. C. (2004). Placing emotional self-regulation in sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts. Child Development, 75(2), 346–353. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00676.x
• Raver, C. C., Blair, C., & Willoughby, M. (2013). Poverty as a predictor of 4-year-olds' executive function: new perspectives on models of differential susceptibility. Developmental Psychology, 49(2), 292–304. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028343
• Raver, C. C., Jones, S. M., Li-Grining, C., Zhai, F., Bub, K., & Pressler, E. (2011). CSRP's impact on low-income preschoolers’ preacademic skills: self-regulation as a mediating mechanism. Child Development, 82(1), 362–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01561.x
• Raver, C. C., & Knitzer, J. (2002). Ready to enter: What research tells policymakers about strategies to promote social and emotional school readiness among three-and four-year-old children. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University. https://doi.org/10.7916/D82V2QVX
• Raver, C. C., & Zigler, E. F. (1997). Social competence: An untapped dimension in evaluating Head Start's success. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12(4), 363–385. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0885-2006(97)90017-X

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• [https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/c-cybele-raver Faculty page at New York University]
• {{google scholar id|PduN7ikAAAAJ}}
• [https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ihdsc/projects/csrp Chicago School Readiness Project]

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