His work focuses on improving young children’s social and emotional learning through teacher preparation and prosocial classroom interventions. He has also investigated the effect of attending public preschool on children’s later literacy outcomes. Previously, he worked as a school teacher across the early childhood continuum, infancy – age 8. Dr. Haslip has a background in international development, having participated in service-related education projects in Jamaica, Uganda, El Salvador, Malaysia and the United States. He is interested in how the next generation of children can be empowered to promote global sustainable development.