Rosemarie Truglio, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Global Education
Rosemarie T. Truglio is the Senior Vice President of Global Education at Sesame Workshop.
Dr. Truglio is responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based and oversees content development across platforms (e.g., television, digital media, publishing, toys, and theme park activities). She also oversees the curriculum development and implementation for all new show production, including Esme & Roy, Helpsters, Ghostwriter, Bea’s Block, and Mecha Builders.
Dr. Truglio manages a global education team responsible for identifying the critical needs of children and their families and for the development of educational frameworks which guide content development across media platforms worldwide. In previous roles at Sesame Workshop, she oversaw all educational research pertaining to program development, which informed both production and creative decisions and strategies for enhancing educational impact and entertainment value. Before joining Sesame Workshop in 1997, she was an Assistant Professor of Communication and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Truglio has written numerous articles in child and developmental psychology journals and presented her work at national and international conferences. Her most recent book is Ready for School! A Parent’s Guide to Playful Learning for Children Ages 2 to 5, published by Running Press (2019). She was co-editor of “G is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street” (2001) published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Dr. Truglio has appeared on many network, cable, radio and podcast programs including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN Town Halls, NPR’s Life Kit for Parents, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered,and she has been interviewed by reporters from a variety of national newspapers and news agencies.
Dr. Truglio serves on the advisory boards of Playful Learning Landscapes, the University of Kansas Advisory Board for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Read Alliance Advisory Council. She previously served on the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council (NICHD), LEGO Foundation Advisory Board for the Research & Innovation Network, NSF Child Trends News Service, NSF REESE grant entitled Collaborative Research: Using Educational DVDs to Enhance Preschooler’s STEM Education, PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, Children’s Digital Media Center Advisory Board, and National Association for Media Literacy Education.
Dr. Truglio received a Ph.D. in Developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas, and a B.A in Psychology from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She received distinguished alumni awards from Douglass College (2005), University of Kansas (2013), Rutgers University (2014), the University of Kansas Women’s Hall of Fame (2015), and Teachers College, Columbia University Medal for Distinguished Service (2022).
Contact for Speaking Engagements
Sesame Workshop Speakers Bureau
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