Julie Law is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd. Law has extensive background in early childhood education, teacher training, and professional development of the workforce. Currently as Infant Toddler Specialist for the State Capacity Building Center, a Service of the Office of Child Care, she builds relationships within state systems to develop and deliver innovative professional development and technical assistance to support quality infant/toddler initiatives. Law also contributes to a variety of other projects at WestEd, assisted in development of formative child assessments supporting curriculum planning and professional development for early care and education teachers, contributes to training development, provides review of professional development resources, and as a PITC Home Visiting Institute faculty, trains on early brain development and responsive relationships.
Prior to joining WestEd, Law was faculty in higher education for 15 years where she assisted in the design of a state-of-the-art children's center, lead restructuring of curriculum for the early childhood major, and developed an early education teacher training internship implementing practices of relationship-based care. Law has delivered professional trainings and presentations for the early childhood workforce on a variety of topics.
Law received her BS in family science/child development from Eastern Michigan University, MS in human development, and a PhD in human development from Ohio State University.