Sarai Coba-Rodriguez, PhD, CFLE

Sarai Coba-Rodriguez

Sarai Coba-Rodriguez’s research focuses on school readiness and family involvement among low-income Latino and African American families and preschool teachers, including their beliefs and practices that promote young children’s successful transition to kindergarten.

Challenging notions of dysfunction and deficit, she uses a family resilience approach that emphasizes families’ strengths and cultural resources, as well as families’ agency in promoting their children’s education.

Areas of expertise include:

• Family resilience
• Early childhood development
• Early childhood education
• Family Involvement
• Parenting
• Racially and linguistically diverse families
• Preschool-Kindergarten transition
• School Readiness

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