His research capitalizes on young children’s natural curiosity about the world by using early childhood science education as a hands-on, engaging, and interactive context to foster school-readiness skills in young children from low-income families. Specifically, he designs and implements classroom- and community-based early childhood science interventions that target domain-general learning skills such as approaches-to-learning, executive functioning, and social emotional development. His work leverages insights derived from laboratory-based experiments and analysis of longitudinal data sets to generate and test these innovative interventions. The overarching goal of his research is to bring high-quality learning opportunities—in the classroom and the community—to children and families living in poverty.