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Relationships are important to the developmental success of young children. Specifically, strong relationships between parents and their young children provide a foundation for lifelong healthy growth and development. Furthermore, partnerships between parents and other adults, including educators, who are actively involved in children’s lives also support positive developmental trajectories. Distinct from programming focused on parent involvement, partnership-based interventions encourage active connection and collaboration between parents and educators. Getting Ready is one such early childhood parent engagement intervention that promotes children’s learning and development by enhancing relationships and strengthening partnerships among families and early childhood educators.
This chapter describes the evidence-based Getting Ready intervention, including the eight Getting Ready strategies and collaborative process used by educators in their interactions with families. Research evidence highlighting the intervention’s effectiveness on child, parent, and teacher outcomes is included. Though evidence of effectiveness has been established, there remains much to be learned about mechanisms contributing to intervention effects, issues that influence its uptake, challenges associated with implementation and cost, and a host of other important variables that have potential to impact how it is received and maintained. The chapter concludes with a research agenda to guide future investigations of the Getting Ready intervention and support scale-up and use in new settings and programs.
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Sheridan, S.M., Knoche, L.L., Boise, C. (2022). Getting Ready: A Relationship-Based Approach to Parent Engagement in Early Childhood Education Settings. In: Bierman, K.L., Sheridan, S.M. (eds) Family-School Partnerships During the Early School Years. Research on Family-School Partnerships. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74617-9_2
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