Graduate Program: Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology Joshua Brown, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Dealy 238 441 East Fordham Road Bronx, NY 10458-9993 Phone: 718 817 4069; Fax: 718 817 3785 Email: cjobrown@fordham.edu Office Hours: Thurs 3:30-5pm and by appointment Curriculum Vita Education | Interests | Projects/Research | Courses | Professional Expertise | Cooperations |  Publications |  Presentations Education Top 1988 B.G.S., University of Michigan 2003 Ph.D. in Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University Major Research Interests Top Contextual influences on the social, emotional and academic development of diverse, urban youth during middle childhood and adolescence Influence of continuity/discontinuity in quality of instructional and non-instructional settings on youth development School-based interventions to promote positive teacher/classroom and youth development Projects Top “Early Adolescents’ Experiences of Continuity and Discontinuity of School Micro-contexts: Implications for Place-based Treatment Effects” (Co-PI, funded by the W. T. Grant Foundation) “Health Risk Behavior in Late Childhood: Impact of a Longitudinal Randomized Trial” (Co-PI, funded by NIMH) “Changing Classroom Climate and Other School Micro-Contexts to Promote Children’s Social-Emotional and Academic Development: The 4Rs Setting-Level Study” (Co-PI, funded by the W. T. Grant Foundation) “Reading, Writing, Respect and Resolution:  The Impact of a Social and Character Development and Literacy Program on Teachers and Children” (Co-PI, funded IES, CDC, and W. T. Grant Foundation) Courses Top PSYC 6530 - Developmental Psychopathology PSYC 7122 - Developmental and Prevention Science PSYC 8350 - Applied Developmental Psychology Practicum PSYC 1000 - Introductory Psychology Further Professional Expertise/Experience/Tasks  Top Editorial Board, Applied Developmental Science Program Chair Elect, Social-Emotional Learning Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association Member, Out-of-School-Time Scholarship Network, The After-School Corporation (TASC), New York, NY Advisory Board Member, Social and Emotional Learning Policy Pilot Study. Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, New York, NY Reviewer (Ad-hoc):  Developmental Psychology; Development and Psychopathology; Child and Adolescent Mental Health; Social Policy Report, William T. Grant Foundation (Major Grant Reviewer) Cooperations Top Dr. J. Lawrence Aber New York University, New York, NY Dr. Stephanie M. Jones, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Dr. Maria LaRusso, Institute of Human Development and Social Change, New York University, New York, NY Dr. Jason Downer, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virgina Dr. Bridget Hamre, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virgina Selected Publications Top For a complete listing of all of Dr. Brown's published works, visit DigitalResearch@fordham.edu Aber, J. L., Brown, J. L. & Jones, S. M. (2011). School-based strategies to prevent violence, trauma and psychopathology: The challenges of going to scale.  Development & Psychopathology, 23, 411-421. Jones, S. M., Brown J. L., & Aber, J. L. (2011). Two year impacts of a universal school-based social-emotional and literacy intervention: An experiment in translational developmental research. Child Development, 82, 533-554. Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M., LaRusso, M. D., & Aber, J. L. (2010).  Improving classroom quality: Teacher influences and experimental impacts of the 4Rs Program.  Journal of Educational Psychology, 102(1), 153-167. Jones, S.M., Brown J.L., Hoglund, W.L.G., & Aber, J.L. (2010). A school-randomized clinical trial of an integrated social-emotional learning and literacy intervention: Impacts after 1 school year. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(6), 829-842. Bickman, L., Riemer, M., Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M., Flay, B. R., Li, K-K., DuBois, D., Pelham, W., & Massetti, G. (2009). Approaches to measuring implementation fidelity in school-based program evaluations. Journal of Research in Character Education, 7(2), 75-101. Aber, J. L., Brown, J. L., Jones, S., & Roderick, T.  (2010). SEL: The history of a research-practice partnership.  In Better: Evidence-based Education, Special Issue on Social-Emotional Learning (pp. 14-15).  Institute for Effective Education, University of York, Heslington, York, UK. LaRusso, M. D., Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M., & Aber, J. L. (2009).  School context and micro-contexts:  The complexity of studying school settings.  In L. M. Dinella (Ed.).  Conducting science-based research in schools (pp. 175-197).  Washington, D.C.: APA Books. Jones, S. M., Brown, J. L. & Aber J. L. (2008). Classroom settings as targets of intervention and research.  In M. Shinn & H. Yoshikawa (Eds.), Towards positive youth development:  Transforming schools and community programs (pp. 58-77). New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Brown, J. L., Roderick, T., Lantieri, L., & Aber, J. L. (2004). The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program:  A school-based social and emotional learning program. In J. E. Zins, R. P. Weissberg, M. Wang, & H. J. Walberg (Eds.), Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say.  New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Aber, J. L., Brown, J. L., & Jones, S. J. (2003). Developmental trajectories toward violence in middle childhood: Course, demographic differences, and response to school-basedintervention. Developmental Psychology, 39(2), 324-348. Selected Presentations Top Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M., & Aber, J. L. (2010, March). The longitudinal impact of a universal school-based social-emotional and literacy intervention on classroom climate and teacher processes and practices. Paperpresented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Washington, D.C. Jones, S. M., Brown, J. L., Hong, G., VanderWeele, T., & Raudenbush, S. (2010, January).  Mediation and spillover effects in group-randomized trials:  A case study of the 4Rs Program.  Invited paper presentation at the William T. Grant Foundation and Spencer Foundation Intervention Grantee Workshop, Washington, D. C. Jones, S. M., Brown, J. L., & Aber, J. L.  (2009, May).  Three-year impacts of the 4Rs Program on children’s social-emotional functioning: The mediating role of teacher-student relationships. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, D.C. Brown, J. L., (2009, April).  The effects of classroom climate on the development of social-emotional competencies in elementary school.  Invited discussant for student poster symposium session at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. LaRusso, M. D., Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M., & Aber, J. L. (2009, April). Mixed method analyses in a social and emotional learning intervention study: The challenges and opportunities for addressing school micro-contexts. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. Jones, S. M., Brown, J. L. & Aber, J. L. (2009, April).  One, two, and three year impacts of the 4Rs Program on children’s mental health and behavioral outcomes.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. Brown, J. L. (2008, October).  School selection and randomization for a school randomized-controlled trial of a universal social-emotional learning and literacy intervention.  Invited paper presented at the Conference on National and International Perspectives on Place-Based Randomized Trials in Education, Institute of Human Development and Social Change, New York University, New York, NY. Brown, J. L. & Jones, S. M. (2008, July).  Establishing buy-in/compliance from principals and teachers for program adoption and data collection in school-randomized intervention trials.  Invited paper presented at the William T. Grant Foundation Intervention Research Workshop, Washington, D.C. Brown, J. L. (2008, March).  Design and implementation issues involved in conducting Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) intervention research:  What we have learned.  Invited discussion paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M. & Aber, J. L. (2008, March). Patterns of classroom quality and their links to social-emotional and academic development.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL. Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M. & Aber, J. L. (2007, November).  Classroom-level emotional and instructional quality and children’s risk for school failure:  The role of school-wide intervention in social emotional learning.   Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education, New York, NY. Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M. & Aber, J. L. (2007, June).  First year experimental impacts of the 4Rs Program on children, teachers, and classrooms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, Pasadena, CA. Brown, J. L., Jones, S. M. & Aber, J. L. (2007, May).  Demographic and classroom predictors of the quality of teacher-student relationships:  Implications for classroom norms.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC Graduate Program: Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology