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Leigh McLean

@leighmcleanphd.bsky.social
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Associate Research Professor & mom of 2 | PI, Teacher Emotions, Characteristics & Health (TECH) Lab at University of Delaware | she/her | opinions my own

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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I’ll be at SREE in Chicago this week if anyone wants to connect!!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I made some cookies for my colleagues…the theme was “mildly triggering”
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
You might be wondering “how exactly has Leigh been dissociating from reality lately?”. Whelp…
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
psycnet.apa.org/buy/2026-417... I’m thrilled to share a new paper where we find that instructional quality mediates associations between teachers’ and students math emotions!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I’m very excited to be part of two great symposia at #SREE in Chicago this September!!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I guess chat gpt is good for some things
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New paper coming out soon! Do you think instructional quality mediates the associations between teacher math anxiety and student outcomes? I bet you’ll never guess the answer!!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“She won’t even know I’m here”
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
So very happy to learn my recent paper on teachers’ content area enjoyment was selected as an Editor’s Choice paper at School Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“But mom…why are these guys so worried about who let their dogs out?? And if they’re so worried why are they spending so much time singing about it instead of looking for the dogs?” Love morning car tunes and conversations with my 4yo
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
When times get tough just remember, you can do hard things. Like wrangling snapping turtles. Turns out that’s pretty hard.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Just got off a call with an NPR radio host and our final words to each other were “ok thanks so much, hope you still have your job next week!” 🫠
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“It found 90% of respondents think federal investment in STEM education is important for future economic prosperity, and the majority of respondents from both parties are concerned about policy changes that might make it harder for the U.S. to attract and retain top scientists.”
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Grateful for people who take time to leave book reviews. ❤️ www.amazon.com/Data-Managem...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 30/04/2025
When Do "Nudges" Increase Welfare? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University
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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
On repeat for infinity
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Working on this slide for my NSF funded PD project for elementary math teachers as this all hits the fan. Kind of poetic I guess.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you’re at #aera2025 come check out “exploring well-being in teachers from an international perspective” at 3:35pm today in the Bluebird Ballroom! I’ll be talking about U.S. teacher burnout and instructional decisions!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Switched from Google Drive to OneDrive in the fall and gave it an honest 6 months. I can now very confidently say “f@$! that”. Switching back.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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Roddy Theobald @roddy-theobald.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Really excited to see this new research on Pre-K teachers from RAND's new American Pre-K Teacher Survey: www.rand.org/pubs/researc.... This is such an understudied area of the teacher labor market, and the existence of this survey panel could lead to more exciting work in the future!
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Findings from the Spring 2024 American Pre-K Teacher Survey
Researchers share insights from the first American Pre-K Teacher Survey, exploring the experiences of pre-kindergarten teachers in public schools. It highlights differences in curriculum use, planning...
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Someday, maybe I'll find the time to write this up in article format. #databs cghlewis.com/talk/sssp_ecf/
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Ten Common Data Management Mistakes | Crystal Lewis
Slides from a presentation given to the Society for the Study of School Psychology Early Career Forum.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’m love love loving our new lab logo!!!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Has anyone gotten updates on an in-review NSF DRK-12? Decline or questions or portal date change?
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m serving as VP of my neighborhood’s community board this year and BOY ARE MY SKILLS AS AN ACADEMIC TRANSFERRABLE.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just got a message from my 4yo’s preschool teacher asking parents to discourage the use of the phrase “man boobs” among kids, because apparently they’ve started saying it regularly 🤣
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Oh yep this week can go f$&@ itself.
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I can confirm that every person in the Department of Education who worked on IPEDS received a notification this week that they were going to be fired. All of them. Private contractors do some of the work on IPEDS, but it won't function without staff in ED.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hey! Come talk to me about teacher burnout!! @aefpweb.bsky.social poster session going until 1:30pm
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I cannot say enough what a great resource I think this will be to anyone interested in learning about key education issues and what research has to say about them.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Check out this quick feature on my recent work with @natejones.bsky.social on teachers’ emotional expressions! www.cehd.udel.edu/research-spo...
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Research Spotlight: Leigh McLean - College of Education & Human Development
Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Weekend writing sponsored by cozy socks and GBBO
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Watched a student walk face-first into a stop sign on campus today. He shook it off, straightened up, flipped off the sign, and kept walking. He wasn’t with anyone, he did that just for himself 😆 🖕
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I was on an IES 305A review panel this year and got this today following up on the cancellation of panels last week. I’m taking this to mean panels will not be rescheduled at all and that 305A awards likely won’t be made. I reviewed some critically important proposals. This is truly awful.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thanks for the swag @edutopia.org !! I hope to write for you again soon!!
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 14/02/2025
"They have unwittingly canceled some of the best education research out there, along with major national surveys and tests that are crucial to tracking America’s educational performance."
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Two years ago I wrote a 3 part blog post on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing for #LoveDataWeek that I think is still relevant for #LoveData25. 1. cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl... 2. cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl... 3. cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl... #rstats #databs #edusky
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Data cleaning for data sharing | Crystal Lewis
Part 1 in a series on creating a data cleaning workflow
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Well what do you know? The Regime has just admitted that they must in fact follow a judge’s court order and release NIH funds to grantees. Thanks to @pinktweets.bsky.social for alerting me. popular.info/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🚨New pub alert!!! @natejones.bsky.social and I found that when teachers express more negative emotions, students are less engaged in math and ELA, and enjoy ELA less. And we offer a new measure for observing teacher affect!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Using an observational measure of elementary Teachers’ emotional expressions during mathematics and English language arts to explore associations with students’ content area emotions and engagement
Processes of classroom emotional transmission have been identified whereby the emotions expressed by an individual are induced in others, with particu…
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Me too
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So very happy to share this paper with the world soon 👏 👏
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I’m on here full time now after leaving The Bad Place and looking forward to contributing to the community!!
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A bill has officially been introduced to eliminate the Department of Education www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is terrifying.
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Christina Areizaga Barbieri, Ph.D. @cabarbieri.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨New Pub Alert!! @DrCathyCorbin and I found via class observations that when elem. teachers are more burnt out, they spend less time in science in general, less time in small groups, and more time having students work independently. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Leigh McLean @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“Mom it’s you! I made you so beautiful! And you’re getting run over by a tractor!” -4 y/o
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