Karen L. Bierman|Celene E. Domitrovich|Robert L. Nix|Scott D. Gest|Janet A. Welsh|Mark T. Greenberg|Clancy Blair|Keith E. Nelson|Sukhdeep Gill
Promoting Academic and Social?Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start REDI Program
Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University
fortyfour head start classrooms randomly assigned enriched intervention head start rediresearchbased developmentally informed usual practice conditions intervention involved brief lessons handson extension activities specific teaching strategies linked empirically promotion socialemotional competencies b language development emergent literacy skills takehome materials provided parents enhance skill development home multimethod assessments three hundred fiftysix 4yearold children tracked progress course 1year program results revealed significant differences favoring children enriched intervention classrooms measures vocabulary emergent literacy emotional understanding social problem solving social behavior learning engagement implications discussed developmental models school readiness early educational programs policies