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Kao, Katie; Hornstein, John; Rosengarten, Mindy; Kennel, Portia; Zapata, Mindy; Ayoub, Catherine – ZERO TO THREE, 2022
Over the last 2 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the way in which two-generational, early childhood education programs partner with families. As providers and families reported their COVID-19 challenges, Head Start and Early Head Start programs adapted an evidence-based professional development model for family service professionals.…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Federal Programs, Social Services
Emily Moiduddin; Elizabeth Cavadel – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
This report provides a project snapshot of the Study of Coaching Practices in Early Care and Education Settings (SCOPE) from 2016-2021. The primary goal in the SCOPE project was to learn more about the ways coaching is implemented to improve instructional practice in early care and education (ECE). SCOPE focused on coaching in center-based…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Coaching (Performance)
Elizabeth Cavadel; Nikki Aikens; Emily Moiduddin; Davis Straske; Hena Matthais; Elizabeth Blesson – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Coaching is a common approach to professional development and support for quality in early care and education (ECE) settings, and is an especially important part of professional development because it can be tailored to meet teachers' and family child care (FCC) providers' needs and can positively affect instructional practices, the quality of the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Professional Development
Anne Douglass; Kathryn Tout; Stephanie Doyle – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2021
Early care and education (ECE) leaders often consider new content, curricula, and models to include in their quality improvement (QI) toolkit. The Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) centers equity in its approach to engaging staff at all levels in an ECE program. It is a promising approach for center-based ECE programs (with the potential to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
Kathryn Eveline Webb Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Recent policy efforts in early care and education (ECE) have aimed to ensure that all children have access to high-quality ECE programming. However, there is debate about how to most effectively improve ECE quality at scale. The three papers in this dissertation provide new insights into the impacts of two widely-used policies aimed at improving…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement