Leslie Ponciano

Leslie Ponciano is the President/Founder of Hope Education Research Solutions where she provides professional development, program evaluation, and efficacy research services. She is also the Director of Research Opportunities for the California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Office where she mentors research and grant proposal development for 23 CSU campuses. Previously, Dr. Ponciano was the Director of Research & Educational Partnerships for Age of Learning, Inc. where she created an efficacy research division to examine how ABCmouse helps children learn. Dr. Ponciano's held faculty and administrative positions in the Early Childhood Education MA program at Loyola Marymount University, in the Child & Family Studies Department at CSU Los Angeles, and in the Applied Developmental Psychology undergraduate minor program at UCLA. Her researcher is in educational technology, foster care, and early childhood development. Dr. Ponciano received a Psychology BA from University of California (UC) Irvine, a Developmental Psychology MA from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education at UC Los Angeles.

Publications

Reconstructing Perceptions of Systemically Marginalized Groups
Reconstructing Perceptions of Systemically Marginalized Groups
Leslie Ponciano. © 2023. 338 pages.
The professions that are designed to help others are often deeply ingrained with a pervasive deficit perspective that may hinder the potential for people who have been...
Reconstructing Mental Models for Favorable Perceptions
Reconstructing Mental Models for Favorable Perceptions
Leslie Ponciano. © 2023. 24 pages.
This chapter begins with an exploration of important terms, processes, and theories that contribute to an understanding of the roles that perception, mental models, media...
The Influence of the Media on Public Perceptions of Youth in Foster Care and in Adoptive Care
The Influence of the Media on Public Perceptions of Youth in Foster Care and in Adoptive Care
Leslie Ponciano. © 2023. 27 pages.
This multi-phased research examined media portrayals of youth in foster care (YFC) and how those portrayals influence public perception. The first phase found that the Los...
Mitigating the Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Peace4Kids Approach in the Post-Pandemic Era
Mitigating the Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Peace4Kids Approach in the Post-Pandemic Era
Leslie Ponciano, Zaid Gayle, Jade Ponciano. © 2022. 22 pages.
Peace4Kids, a community-based non-profit, developed their trauma-informed, strengths-based approach over two decades of applied practice with children in foster care. This...