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Tracy Payne Jordan, PhD

Tracy Payne Jordan, PhD

Assistant Research Professor

Director: 91社区 HIPPY Training & Technical Assistance Center

Phone: 813-974-4858
Office: MHC 2232

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Research Interests:

Home-based early childhood intervention; child-parent Interactions; school readiness 


Dr. Tracy Payne is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies and the Principal Investigator of and . She has a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from the Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University (2011) with training in Education Research and a focus on Early Childhood Education. As a Fellow of the Institute of Education Sciences, she worked at the Peabody Research Institute and, in 2009, she received a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a two-year experimental study in Head Start Classrooms.

Dr. Payne has taught pre-service teachers in teacher education programs, conducted professional development for in-service teachers, and continues to work with parents and families in educating their children. She is currently responsible for the program operations, research and evaluation activities for the sixteen HIPPY programs serving more than 1,000 families located in twenty Floridian counties.