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Virginia Buysse

Virginia Buysse is a Senior Scientist at the FPG Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is conducting a program of research to develop and validate Recognition & Response (R&R), an early intervening system adapted from a school-age model of Response to Intervention (RTI) for use in pre-kindergarten programs (with funding from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the U.S Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences). She also directs the Nuestros Niños Early Language and Literacy Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences) to examine the effects of professional development on teaching practices and language and literacy outcomes of Latino children enrolled in public pre-k. She is co-directing a research site as part of multi-site study called Ready to Learn funded by the U.S. Department of Education (Office of Innovation and Improvement) to assess the effects of Word World, an animated public television program, on children’s language and literacy outcomes. She serves as Co-PI on the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion and is Co-PI on CONNECT (Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge), both funded by the U.S. Department of Education (OSEP). She is President-Elect of the Division of Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children. She is Associate Editor of the Journal for Early Intervention and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other leading journals in early education and early intervention.

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