Expanding the Infant Achievements Intervention Through Community Partnerships

September 17, 2025 updated by: Rebecca Landa, Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.

Centering Community Partnerships to Facilitate Scaling Up of Infant Achievements for Community Implementation

The goal of the research study is to increase teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices in Early Head Start classrooms through the delivery of a professional development (PD) training intervention. The main questions that the study aims to answer are:

  1. Does teacher participation in a PD intervention improve the use of evidence-based practices from pre- to posttest?
  2. To what extent is the PD intervention feasible to implement in an established child care program?
  3. To what extent is the PD program acceptable to teachers?

Participants will attend PD workshops and participate in content-related job-embedded coaching sessions during the implementation of the study.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The primary objective of the research study is to increase teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices in Early Head Start classrooms through the delivery of a professional development (PD) training intervention. It is hypothesized that teachers' fidelity to developmentally-appropriate practices, assessed through classroom observation measures, will increase following their participation in a comprehensive PD training intervention. The secondary hypotheses are that (1) the PD intervention is feasible to implement in an established child care program, and (2) the PD program is acceptable to teachers. Teacher participants will attend PD workshops, co-developed with community partners, and engage in follow-up job-embedded coaching sessions occurring weekly in their classrooms.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

10

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21211
        • Kennedy Krieger Institute

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants must currently work in an early childhood classroom serving children between 8-36 months of age.
  • Participants must work in the role of a teacher or teacher assistant in an Early Head Start location.
  • Participants must be willing to participate in two 60-90-minute trainings/workshops.
  • Participants must be willing to participate in eight follow-up job-embedded coaching sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Works in a childcare setting outside of the Baltimore metro area
  • Non-English speaking

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Teacher Professional Development Workshop and Coaching
Teachers will participate in a professional development workshop session (approximately 2 hours in duration) followed by 8 weekly coaching sessions (approximately 45-60 minutes in duration). The study team (trained coaches) will utilize the Practice-Based Coaching model (Snyder et al., 2015) to support teachers' use of developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood classrooms. Teachers will be coached to implement strategies that foster responsive and nurturing relationships with young children.
Behavioral: Building Capacity for Infant Achievements in Child Care
All teacher participants will be assigned to the professional development intervention consisting of an interactive workshop and weekly coaching sessions.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Classroom Quality (as assessed by scores on the TPITOS)
Time Frame: Change from baseline/pretest up to posttest, up to 16 weeks.
Classroom quality will be measured by total scores (ranging from 0-100%) on the Teaching Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS) which assesses the extent to which an early childhood program's staff is fostering responsive, nurturing relationships with young children and promoting strong social-emotional development.
Change from baseline/pretest up to posttest, up to 16 weeks.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.

Collaborators

Johns Hopkins University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Rebecca Landa, PhD, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

February 15, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 4, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 9, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

March 15, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimated)

September 23, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 17, 2025

Last Verified

September 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB00408654

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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