Emily Newton is a Senior Research Associate with WestEd. She conducts research and produces written products for projects on infant-toddler care, early childhood education, and formative assessment tools, including the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP). She was a principal writer/editor on the Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Program Guidelines, 2nd Edition. In her previous role as a consultant with WestEd, she also contributed to multiple projects as a child development research expert.
Prior to joining WestEd, Newton was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stevenson University in Maryland, and then at Dominican University of California, where she taught courses on statistics, writing in psychology, and child, adolescent, and adult development, and conducted research on parent-child relationships and young children’s psychological understanding. She has also taught at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and California State University, Sacramento (CSU Sacramento). In addition, Newton was the infant lead teacher at the UC Davis, Early Childhood Lab School and a trainer for the UC Davis, Extension Center for Excellence in Child Development, where she trained family child care providers throughout California.
Her articles have been published in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infancy, and the ZERO TO THREE Journal.
Newton received a BA in English from UC Davis, an MA in child development from CSU Sacramento, and a PhD in developmental psychology from UC Davis.