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Wiggs, Nicole B.; Reddy, Linda A.; Glover, Todd A.; Dudek, Christopher M.; Alperin, Alexander; Regan, Patrick – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2021
This case study describes the actions and processes of implementing Behavior Support Coaching for Paraprofessionals (BSC-P) with a kindergarten teacher and paraprofessional to support the implementation of behavior support plans with three students in a high-poverty elementary school. BSC-P consists of eight, 40-min coaching sessions using direct…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Murdoch, Amy; Warburg, Rosanne; Corbo, Elizabeth; Strickler, Wendy – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
A key to reducing reading difficulty, particularly for children living in poverty, is to provide high quality, explicit, and well-planned instruction from the start of a child's school career. Preschools that provide quality language, literacy, and content instruction have produced promising positive effects on children's later academic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Program Implementation, Literacy Education
Wasik, Barbara A.; Hindman, Annemarie H. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Preschool teachers from a high-poverty, urban school district were trained to implement Story Talk, a book reading intervention designed to increase children's vocabulary and language development using supportive materials and strategic individualized coaching. Thirty-five teachers were randomly assigned by site to the intervention (20) or the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
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Joshi, Pamela; Geronimo, Kimberly; Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2016
This article explores Head Start's overall effectiveness in improving school readiness outcomes and its potential to reduce gaps in these outcomes in light of changing program goals, resource and funding capacity, and the demographic changes in the low-income child population it serves. Although not an explicit goal of the Head Start program, we…
Descriptors: Poverty, School Readiness, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Van Manen, Karen W.; Mokrova, Irina L. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2018
The primary purpose of the 2016-2017 North Carolina (NC) Pre-Kindergarten (NC Pre-K) Evaluation study was to examine variability in enrollment practices within the statewide Pre-K Program. Four major categories of enrollment practices were examined: recruitment, application, placement, and waitlist. The study involved all 91 local NC Pre-K Program…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Enrollment, Student Recruitment, Student Placement
Manship, Karen; Quick, Heather; Ogut, Burhan; Holod, Aleksandra; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Anthony, Jennifer – 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 brief, the sixth in a series highlighting findings from the "Study of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
Checkoway, Amy; Goodson, Barbara; Grindal, Todd; Hofer, Kerry – Abt Associates, 2016
As part of the federal Preschool Development Grant Program in late 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) was awarded a Preschool Expansion Grant (referred to as the Massachusetts PEG program) to expand high-quality early childhood education to four-year-old children from low-income families. The Massachusetts PEG…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grants, Early Childhood Education, Access to Education
Ton, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of function-based interventions on the challenging behavior of three young boys with autism in rural Tennessee. Tennessee preschool teachers serve primarily rural communities, marked by high poverty rates and lack of access to ongoing teacher training and consultation. Positive Behavior…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Behavior Problems, Intervention, Poverty
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Golas, Julianna C.; Horm, Diane; Caruso, David A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Early Head Start services are typically offered through home- or center-based delivery models. A formative evaluation of an example of each service delivery model was conducted. The purpose was to examine the issues involved in the implementation of these two service delivery models relative to the content of services, intensity of services,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Program Implementation, Formative Evaluation, Family Involvement