Peter L. Mangione is Senior Director of Early Childhood Strategic Initiatives at WestEd and directs the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), a national model for early childhood professional development. He has led the creation of early learning and development standards and curriculum, infant, toddler, and preschool program guidelines, resources for supporting young dual language learners, and early childhood educator competencies.
Mangione received a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from the University of Rochester and completed postdoctoral study at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.
Grade levels
- Early Childhood (Birth–Pre-K)
Primary Expertise
- Early Childhood Education
- Improvement Science/Continuous Improvement
- Infant-Toddler Services
Populations
- Multilingual learners