drdmcmanis

Lilla Dale McManis, Ph.D. is the Research Director for Hatch, where she researches technology products for early childhood. Dale holds a B.S. in Child Development and a M.Ed. in Special Education from the University of Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Florida focusing on learning and cognition in poverty children. She then worked for the Massachusetts Departments of Education and Public Health as Evaluator, then Co-Director of the Office of Statistics and Evaluation. Dale joined the University of Texas faculty in 2001, working on research projects in the State Center for Early Childhood Development in the Children’s Learning Institute. She oversaw projects for school readiness, such as the state School Readiness Certification System. Since 2008, Dr. McManis works with Hatch Product Development in the design and evaluation of educational technology for early learners.