Rebecca Soden
Team Lead, Education and Early Childhood Services
rsoden@claytonearlylearning.org
303-329-5654
Rebecca Soden has over fifteen years of experience implementing programs for children birth to five, including Early Head Start, Head Start and Early Reading First. She currently leads education services at Clayton Educare, one of ten national Head Start Centers of Excellence. She is responsible for the creation and implementation of a continuous improvement model for using data to effectively plan and monitor early childhood programs. She served as the Evaluation and Continuous Improvement Manager on a 2002 Early Reading First grant and as the Project Director on a 2006 Early Reading First grant. Her work has a special focus on supporting evidence-based programming, including teacher-child interactions, language and literacy development, and the innovative use of technology in early childhood classrooms. Rebecca strives to develop communities of practice within ECE programs in an effort to discover what researchers and teachers can learn from each other. Rebecca has a Master of Science degree in Human Development and Family Studies with an emphasis in Early Childhood from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She is completing her doctorate at the University of Colorado – Denver.
