John Fantuzzo, Ph.D., is the

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Professor of Human Relations at the

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Graduate School of Education and the Faculty Director of the Penn Child Research Center.

Awards

He is a recipient of the

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Community Involvement Award and the National Head Start Research Mentor Award.

Career

Fantuzzo has been a faculty member at Penn since 1988, where he has worked extensively with the School District of Philadelphia's early childhood education programs. Fantuzzo's research and work focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of school- and community-based strategies that benefit low-income children in high-risk urban settings. He has conducted multiple studies, some with the National Head Start Program, that research the effect of community and family violence on school readiness, the influence of social/emotional adjustment problems on educational success, and early childhood education. Fantuzzo worked on the development of integrated citywide databases for agencies that serve young children, such as th
Kids Integrated Data System
or KIDS database, a Philadelphia-area database that is one of the only municipal databases of its kind. Fantuzzo is also a principal investigator o
EPIC
or Evidence-Based Program for the Integration of Curricula, a Head Start program for disadvantage and at-risk preschoolers. EPIC integrates social, emotional, and cognitive supports with

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education and is being implemented at several preschools in Philadelphia. Fantuzzo also serves on the editorial boards of research journals in education and early childhood, including th
''Journal of Educational Psychology''
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'', an
''School Psychology Review''

Research

In 2009 Fantuzzo presented the Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Lecture, a review of research findings titled
The Educational Well-Being of African American Boys: A Philadelphia Story of Challenges and Possibilities
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Education

Fantuzzo holds a B.A. in Psychology from

Marietta College Marietta College (MC) is a private liberal arts college in Marietta, Ohio. It offers more than 50 undergraduate majors across the arts, sciences, and engineering, as well as Physician Assistant, Psychology, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, an ...

(1974), an M.A. in Theology from the

Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary is an interdenominational Evangelical Christian seminary in Pasadena, California, with regional campuses in the western United States. It is egalitarian in nature. Fuller consistently has a student body that compri ...

(1976), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology (1980). In 1990, Fantuzzo received an honorary M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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