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This report presents a proposed study design that would examine the feasibility and potential benefits of investing time in the We Grow Together Professional Development System for infant and toddler caregivers.

Explore this recorded session from the Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2021) focused on web-based professional development approaches that aim to target coach-caregiver interactions to improve caregiver-child interactions.

This brief describes the implementation of We Grow Together, a research-based professional development system for caregivers working with infants and toddlers in center-based care and family child care homes.

This brief describes differences in beliefs, knowledge, and practices of infant and toddler caregivers from fall 2018 to spring 2019 — before and after implementation of the We Grow Together Professional Development System.

This brief describes the professional development experiences of caregivers and PD providers that participated in the field test of the We Grow Together Professional Development System.

This recorded session from ACF’s National Research Conference on Early Childhood 2020 (NRCEC 2020) featured a presentation on the We Grow Together Professional Development System (WGT) field test (beginning at time marker 22:45) alongside presentations from two other projects.

We Grow Together (WGT) is a professional development (PD) system for caregivers working with infants and toddlers in center-based care and family child care homes. Caregivers are supported in planning and using the WGT practices through relationship- and practice-based coaching from a trained local PD provider who can be a coach, supervisor, mentor, or anyone else who provides ongoing PD. WGT is based on nationally recommended best practices for interacting with infants and toddlers that are measured with the Q-CCIIT observational tool.

This report includes findings from a WGT field test conducted from fall 2018 through spring 2019.

This report and accompanying materials summarize the state of the field on in-service professional development methods for early childhood caregivers. This comprehensive literature review draws on empirical studies, reviews, and meta-analyses conducted within the past 10 years and websites of leading organizations to identify the most promising methods and practices for improving caregiver interactions with young children...