Caregiver training and classroom quality in child care centers
A study of the association between classroom quality and both formal education and informal training of caregivers, based on data from 533 child care center classrooms in four states
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Child care provider training and a supportive feeding environment in child care settings in 4 states, 2003
A comparison of feeding practices between child care centers that did and did not receive funding and support from the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and an assessment of training factors that could account for differences among centers, based on surveys of 203 directors and 567 staff in child care centers serving low-income children in 4 states
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Crystal Stairs, Inc. License Exempt Assistance Project "Community Pre-K" evaluation report: Year 1 (2007-2008)
An evaluation of Community Pre-K, a play and learn program to provide quality early learning experiences to children cared for by subsidized, license-exempt providers and to build providers' caregiving skills, that examined child and provider outcomes, based on data collected from 9 family, friend, and neighbor child care providers and 13 children in Los Angeles
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Diverse pathways in early childhood professional development: An exploration of early educators in public preschools, private preschools, and family child care homes
An examination of patterns of education, training, and mentoring among early childhood educators, based on observations and questionnaire responses of 103 teachers in public and private preschool and family child care settings in Los Angeles, California
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Does training make a difference to quality in family child care?
An article on the characteristics of family child care providers who seek training and the effects of training on child care quality.
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Early childhood education leadership development compendium: A view of the current landscape
A study of the characteristics of programs that support leadership development in the early childhood education field, based on survey responses from 55 leadership development programs
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The effect of curriculum, coaching, and professional development on prekindergarten children’s literacy achievement
A study of the effect of Southern California’s Preschool Literacy Project, which provides a specialized curriculum, teacher coaching, a print-rich environment, and professional development opportunities to teachers, on the literacy scores of the participating children, based on data collected from 22 state preschool classrooms serving children from low income families
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En confianza: Co-constructing professional strength and voice with Latina early childhood educators
An examination of the relationship between monthly teacher professional development meetings and Latina teachers’ ideological orientations and voice related to their bicultural and bilingual literacy instruction from individual and focus group interviews and field notes from 12 preschool teachers and their teaching assistants
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Evaluating the Quality Child-Care Initiative: Child-care worker apprenticeships in the Western states: Final report
A process evaluation of the first two rounds of the Quality Child-Care Initiative, federally funded grants for states to address child care quality and labor issues by applying the apprenticeship training method to the child care workforce, in Western states, based on site visits
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Evaluation of the 40-Hour Initial Pre-Service Training for Entry-Level Child Care Providers
An evaluation of the 40-Hour Initial Pre-Service Training for Entry-Level Child Care Providers, an interactive online training, that examines participant experiences of and knowledge gains from the training and changes to resource and referral agency training and technical assistance offerings, based on pre- and posttest participant knowledge assessments, individual lesson analyses, participant focus groups, and resource and referral agency staff interviews
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Evaluation of Every Child Counts: First 5 Alameda Children & Families Commission's Every Director Counts project
A report on the outcomes of a training program designed to enhance the ability of Alameda County child care center directors to design, lead, and manage change processes
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Evaluation of Preschool for All (PFA) implementation in San Francisco County: Year 5 report
An evaluation of the fifth year of implementation of Preschool for All, an initiative to make high-quality child care available to all four-year-old children, in San Francisco County, California, that examines changes in quality of 11 classrooms with teachers who participated in a professional development program and results of a pilot test of a research tool to assess support for dual language learners
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Evaluation of Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC): An on-site training of caregivers
A study of the impact of Program for Infant/Toddler Care, which provides on-site training to center-based and family child care providers, on global and process child care quality and children's cognitive, language, social, and behavioral skills, based on data collected from 92 randomly assigned child care centers and 159 randomly assigned family child care homes and from 936 children enrolled with those providers
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Evaluation plan 2000-2002: Bay Area Child-Care Retention Incentive programs: Developed in cooperation with Alameda and San Francisco Counties
A description of a plan to evaluate two child care retention incentive (CRI) programs in Alameda and San Francisco counties
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Exploring the training needs of family, friend and neighbor child care providers
A study of the training concerns and needs of family, friend, and neighbor child care providers, based on focus groups with 30 providers in Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles; and the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
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Impact of trainings on child care providers' attitudes and perceived competence toward inclusion: What factors are associated with change?
A study of the relationship between the characteristics of child care workers and their changed attitudes and perceptions of competence regarding environments inclusive of children with disabilities after attending the Kids Included Together (KIT) training program, based on data collected from 1,298 child care providers attending KIT in San Diego, California
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A pilot study of quality support coaching in LAUP: Findings from the 2010-2011 program year: Final report
A pilot study of quality support coaching for center-based and family child care providers in the universal prekindergarten program of Los Angeles County that examines coaching implementation, stakeholder perceptions of coaching, and characteristics of coaching across different contexts, based on key informant interviews, coach and provider focus groups, coaching record reviews, and provider case studies
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Promoting the development of preschool children's emergent literacy skills: A randomized evaluation of a literacy-focused curriculum and two professional development models
A study of the impact of a literacy-focused preschool curriculum and two types of professional development on the emergent literacy skills of at-risk children, based on data from teachers and 739 children in 48 preschools
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Promoting healthy practices in child care centers: The role of child care resource and referral agencies
A study of child care center obesity prevention practices and child care resource and referral agency health-related training and technical assistance offerings, based on a survey of 113 agencies from 29 states
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Promoting social-emotional development and addressing behavioral needs in inclusive preschool settings utilizing features of program wide positive behavior support: A handbook for early childhood professionals
A field test of a handbook for the promotion of socioemotional development in inclusive early childhood settings that consists of evidence-based strategies that utilize features of School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports based on an evaluation by 5 expert reviewers
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Quality of care offered by providers with differential patterns of workshop participation
An article relating frequency of family child care providers' training to child care quality
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Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Baseline findings from the 2011-2012 program year: Final report
Preliminary findings from a study of a coaching professional development model for center-based and family child care teachers in Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) that document and explain the coaching process, based on interviews with 42 teachers, 64 conversations with coaches and teachers, and 43 activity logs from coaches
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Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Findings from the 2011-2012 program year: Final report
A study of a coaching professional development model for center-based and family child care teachers in Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) that: documents and explains the coaching process; identifies successes, challenges, and lessons learned; and defines the logic model for the coaching, based on 159 conversations with coaches and teachers, 78 activity logs from coaches, fall and spring interviews with 42 teachers, and questionnaires from 16 coaches
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The QUINCE-PFI study: An evaluation of a promising model for child care provider training: Final report
An examination of the efficacy of an individualized, assessment-based, on-site consultation model of professional development for the quality improvement of early childhood programs, based on 108 child care classrooms and 263 family child care homes from twenty-four agencies in five states assigned to a group to receive a professional development intervention or to a control group
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San Diego CARES: Program impact survey: Family child care homes: Evaluation report to the YMCA Childcare Resource Service
A study of the impact on participating family child care providers of CARES, a stipend-based program to reduce turnover and advance professional development of child care workers, in San Diego County, California, based on a survey of family child care providers and administrative data
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