She has been working in the field for nearly 30 years as a classroom teacher, administrator, university professor, researcher, teacher educator and advocate for children and families. She is a Consulting Editor for NAEYC’s journal Young Children and has numerous publications including a new book for early childhood leaders and trainers: The Essential Literacy Workshop Book. As a researcher, she was the Principal Investigator for The Newark Lighthouse Initiative, and is the Project Director at WPU for NJ DOE’s Early Learning Improvement Consortium and the Early Launch to Learning Initiative grant. Dr. Seplocha was awarded the Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator of the Year for 2005 by the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) and Allyn & Bacon Publishers.