Study of Coaching Practices in Early Care and Education Settings, 2016–2021

The Study of Coaching in Early Care and Education Settings (SCOPE) was designed to examine the variations in coaching in ECE. The sample was recruited across seven geographically dispersed states that demonstrated active implementation of coaching in at least one ECE setting. The centers and family child care (FCC) provider homes in the SCOPE sample served children from families with low incomes primarily through a Head Start grant and/or with Child Care and Development Fund subsidies (though many settings had other sources of revenue as well). Surveys were provided to ECE coaches and to a sample of ECE center-based teachers and FCC providers who participated in coaching. Surveys were collected in 2019, and a set of follow up surveys was collected in 2022 from respondents to the 2019 survey. The initial surveys examined a wide range of coaching features and processes, program context and supports provided to coaches. The follow up surveys explored the impact of COVID on coaching implementation for ECE. Data from the SCOPE study is available for secondary analyses at the Child and Family Data Archive.