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Julie Cohen; Luke C. Miller; Rosalie Chung; Emily Wiseman; Erik Ruzek – Journal of Education, 2024
Helping students engage with complex texts has been a longstanding challenge, though teachers have received little guidance about practices that help students in engaging with texts. This paper provides a range of empirical evidence about a tool designed to provide formative insight into text-focused teaching, which we used to reliably score more…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Research
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Jason T. Downer; Nicole B. Doyle; Robert C. Pianta; Margaret Burchinal; Samuel Field; Bridget K. Hamre; Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch; Carollee Howes; Karen LaParo; Catherine Scott-Little – Early Education and Development, 2024
A sample of 496 early childhood teachers was assigned randomly in two phases to a series of professional development (PD) interventions. Phase I intervention was a 14-week course on effective teacher-child interactions. Participants were then re-randomized into Phase II intervention, which consisted of individual, interactions-focused coaching.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Student Relationship, Literacy Education, Preschool Teachers
Manship, Karen; Holod, Aleksandra; Quick, Heather; Ogut, Burhan; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Anthony, Jennifer; Chernoff, Jodi Jacobson; Hauser, Alison; Martin, Alejandra; Keuter, Shannon; Vontsolos, Emily; Rein, Elena; Anderson, Emily – American Institutes for Research, 2017
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This final report from the program's evaluation focuses on results from a five-year…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
American Institutes for Research, 2016
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This fifth short report in a series highlighting findings from the Study of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs