WILL PARNELL, Ed.D., is a professor in early childhood education and a pedagogical liaison to the Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University. He also served two 3-year terms as Department Chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Department. His specialty areas are rethinking readiness in the early years, disrupting traditional early childhood research, creating learning designs, and documenting and making young children’s learning visible. Dr. Parnell served as the President of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Principle Investigator on three research grants totaling 2.5 million in funding, and Founder of the Inventing Remida Portland project (https://www.facebook.com/remidaportland). Dr. Parnell's current research, Children in Cities, centers children, teachers, and Place! He researches Reggio-inspired practices related to making listening and learning visible and valued, and working with children’s creative expression, representational work and Remida creative reuse materials. His most recent research makes meaning through a "small stories matter" approach. Dr. Parnell has written on and presented many journal articles and book chapters about his research. He has co-edited and authored three books: Making Meaning in Early Childhood Research, Disrupting Research in Early Childhood Education, and Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education. Find more at https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/parnellw/home