Dr. Elisabeth L. McLean is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, College of Education, at Penn State University. Dr. McLean has over 25 years of experience implementing, evaluating, and providing professional development to early childhood and family literacy programs that serve low-income and low-literate families. Her work focuses on topics that include early language and literacy development, parent engagement, family literacy, parent-child interactive literacy activities, policy, and parent leadership.