What does coaching look like and sound like in the field? Do our data reflect both the quantity and quality of coach efforts? How can SPDGs collaborate with local leaders to enhance the capacity of coaches to implement evidence-informed coaching practices?
This session will provide an overview of Practice-Based Coaching: Data-Informed Decision Making (PBC-DIDM), an OSEP-funded model demonstration project focused on using data to enhance decisions about coaching efforts and effects. The presenters will highlight one part of the PBC-DIDM model, the Effort and Effect Cascade. The Cascade is generalizable to settings where the intended outcome of coaching is to promote practitioners’ use of effective practices associated with positive outcomes for children, youth, or families. Participants will have the opportunity to learn, reflect, connect, and share as they explore considerations for gathering data that can help SPDGs and leadership teams to make decisions while answering questions about their coaching efforts (i.e., How much? How well?) and effects (i.e., Are our efforts making a difference?).
Presenters:
Patricia (Pat) Snyder is the inaugural occupant of the David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies, a Distinguished Professor of Special Education and Early Childhood Studies, an affiliate Professor of Pediatrics, and the founding Director of the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Pat has worked in community-based and academic settings for over four decades, focusing on birth to age 5. Since 2007, she has been a principal investigator/co-principal investigator for multiple research, training, demonstration, and implementation projects, which, with networks of community, state, national, and international collaborators, have helped inform recommended practices in the field, including those focused on embedded learning supports, the Pyramid Model, professional learning, and practice-based coaching.
https://ceecs.education.ufl.edu/about/members/patricia-snyder/
Darbianne Shannon Darbianne (Darbi) Shannon is an Assistant Research Scientist with the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Before joining the Anita Zucker Center in 2012, Darbi was a classroom teacher and coach in school- and center-based inclusive early childhood programs. Since joining the Anita Zucker Center in 2012, she has held leadership roles and served as a co-principal investigator on research projects focused on embedded intervention in early learning, the Pyramid Model, and practice-based coaching. Her current work focuses on supporting data-informed implementation of these practices in early childhood settings and mechanisms designed to support quality assurance and continuous enhancement. https://ceecs.education.ufl.edu/about/members/darbianne-shannon/
Kiersten Kinder Kiersten Kinder is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Early Childhood Special Education, Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. Her work focuses on supporting teachers to use effective practices in early childhood settings. She has been involved in research on the Pyramid Model and Practice-Based Coaching in early childhood settings nationwide. Kinder received her Ph.D. in Special Education from Vanderbilt in 2010. Following her graduation, she served as a research associate in the Department of Special Education at Peabody (2010-2012, 2018-2023), the associate director of the Susan Gray School for Children (2012-2015), and a multi-classroom leader at Ross Early Learning Center of Metro Nashville Public Schools (2015-2018). Kinder taught in inclusive early childhood classrooms for ten years before receiving her PhD. https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/?pid=kiersten-kinder