The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.
Featuring a who’s who of more than 25 interdisciplinary experts, this book goes far beyond “one and done” approaches to training and illuminates the benefits of supported practice, follow-up, and reflection. Readers will learn how to:
Make the most of parallel practices, in which the best strategies coaches use to partner with coachees are also used by home visitors to partner with caregivers
Use both reflective supervision and practice-based coaching to enhance work with families
Apply the principles of adult learning to build respectful and reciprocal coaching relationships
Implement research-informed coaching strategies that promote well-being for home visitors and families
Ensure culturally responsive home visiting at both the systems level and the individual home visitor level
Deliver engaging and effective virtual coaching to both home visitors and families
Collaborate with early intervention providers to support families who have children with disabilities
Use coaching to increase and monitor fidelity to evidence-based programs and practices
Perfect for use as a professional development resource or a preservice textbook, this transformative book will help both supervisors and practitioners excel in their roles and improve the lives of children and families.
Christa D. Haring, Ph.D., CCC-SLP served as a special educator, speech-language pathologist, and teacher educator for ten years in public schools spurring her interest in identifying ways to measure and improve outcomes for low-performing teachers and students. Currently, she teaches educator preparation courses centered on instructional practices to improve reading skills for students with dyslexia. Her research focuses on language and literacy interventions for parents, teachers, and innovative community programs supporting children from high-poverty areas.
Dr. Innocenti is Director of the Research and Evaluation Division at the Center for Persons with Disabilities and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Innocenti has over 30 years of experience working with infants and young children at-risk and with disabilities and their families in multiple research and model demonstration projects. Using an interdisciplinary model that recognizes the contribution of different disciplines and stakeholders, his research is conducted in and for communities. Recent projects focus on assessment and curriculum, home visiting effectiveness, and preschool intervention to prevent later special education.
Dr. Roggman is Professor in the Department of Family, Consumer, &Human Development at Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Roggmans research focuses on parenting and childrens early development. She has extensive experience in home visiting research, integrating theory-based inquiry with program evaluation, and training practitioners. She is a strong methodologist with expertise in observational data collection and longitudinal analysis and has authored several observation instruments used extensively by researchers and practitioners. She was principal investigator of a local research team for the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project.
CHAPTER 1 Relationships, Precision, and Moving the Needle for Home Visiting
Jon Korfmacher
CHAPTER 2 Adult Learning and Relationship-Building In Coaching
Christa Haring, Nicole Pyle, Dorian Traube, and Angela Rau
CHAPTER 3 Coaching Families
Christa Haring and Rebecca Beegle
CHAPTER 4 Reflective Supervision and Practice-Based Coaching
Patricia Marickovich, Mary Louise Hemmeter, Angela Rau, and Christa Haring
CHAPTER 5 Coaching Home Visitors
Bridget A. Walsh., Patricia H. Manz, Hyun-Joo Jeon, and Oluwatobi Mogbojuri
CHAPTER 6 Culturally Responsive Home Visiting: Making Supports RAIN at the Home
Visitor Level
Lori A. Bass and Rihana S. Mason
CHAPTER 7 Culturally Responsive Home Visiting: Making Supports RAIN at the Systems Level
Rihana S. Mason and Lori A. Bass
CHAPTER 8 Virtual Coaching for Families and Home Visitors
Dorian E. Traube and Angela Rau
CHAPTER 9 Collaboration with Early Intervention Programs to Support Families and
Their Children with Disabilities
Mollie Romano and Anne Larson
CHAPTER 10 The Field of Family Life Coaching
Kimberly Allen, Debbie Kruenegel-Farr, and Margaret Machara
CHAPTER 11 Abecedarian and Child First: Lessons For Partnering With Caregivers
Adam Holland, Susan Killmeyer, Kimberly Meunier, and Joseph Sparling
