Consultant - Dr. Gillian McNamee

Dr. Gillian McNamee been invited to serve as a consultant for StoryCorner since 2025.

Dr. Gillian McNamee received her Masters in the Science of Teaching from the University of Chicago with 2 years of mentoring in the kindergarten classroom of Vivian Gussin Paley from 1974-1976. She then completed her Ph.D. in Education, Reading and Language from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has taught fifth grade science, served as a preschool language arts teacher, and been a kindergarten teacher. Dr. McNamee has deep training and experience working in classrooms with young children, and is an accomplished early childhood teacher educator. She has supported students becoming early childhood teachers in the US, and has carried out professional development initiatives with teachers in Europe, Taiwan, several regions of China, Turkey, and Kyrgyzstan. She is the author of The High Performing Preschool (2015) and Listening to Learning written with Dr. Jie-Qi Chen (2024). She speaks nationally and internationally on how teachers can listen to young children in order to become the teacher young children need to anticipate their future.