Stephanie Olmore

Before joining the National P-3 Center as a Senior Professional Research Assistant, Stephanie served as the Senior Director of Global Engagement for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). She worked with international governments, top-level delegations and other large-scale systems to create guidelines to support early learning, as well as to support early childhood professionals throughout the world. She started with NAEYC as the Deputy Director of NAEYC’s Academy for Early Childhood Program Accreditation.

Previously, she served the Step by Step Association (ISSA) as their Manager of the Quality Early Education Initiative. During her tenure there she managed their quality improvement initiatives in countries throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia; conducting trainings for more than 1,000 participants and conducting several hundred classroom observations throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Stephanie’s passion and work in early childhood education began as a student assistant in a campus child care program. Over the course of her 25 year career as an early childhood development advocate, she held a variety of roles including a staff member in the Governor of Colorado’s, First Impression policy office on families and children.

Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master’s degree in early childhood education from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is currently completing her EdD at the University of Colorado at Denver in Executive Leadership. Her dedication to support high quality early learning has taken her to more than 30 countries.