The Children’s Forum (the Forum) has a simple and impactful vision: to create connected and engaged communities that support children for life-long success. The Forum works to influence young children’s early learning skills while also building and diversifying the early learning workforce.
Through workforce studies and other research in the field of early learning, the Forum identified the need for safe and high-quality educational environments for young children. This need not only includes reaching children in high-need populations, but also extends to gaps within the workforce that cares for and educates young children. Several years ago, the Forum received a federal grant to implement a relationship-based coaching model. The success of their experiences with this model informed the Forum’s decision to continue exploring it, while also incorporating best practices from literature on early learning.
Now, the Forum is using its 2017 AmeriCorps State and National Evidence-based Intervention Planning grant to plan an implementation model for providing evidence-based interventions to young children and support early learning classroom teachers through a relationship-based coaching model.
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