Teachers Thriving Together

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Emotional Competence

Treatments: Behavioral: ParentCorps FUNdamentals; Behavioral: Training; Behavioral: ParentCorps 101 E-learning; Behavioral: Coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03980834

19-00204

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized, controlled, hybrid implementation-effectiveness design.whose primary aim is to examine the impact of ParentCorps plus Thrive Professional Learning, relative to Thrive Professional Learning and Inspire Professional Learning alone, on teachers' classroom teaching (knowledge, beliefs, skills and practice related to family engagement and social emotional learning) and teachers' social emotional development. The study also aims to understand the impact of Thrive Professional Learning versus Inspire Professional Learning alone on teachers and classrooms.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The participants are lead teachers, assistant teachers, teaching assistants, paraprofessionals and teacher aides in 238 sites with Pre-K in NYC (for the purposes of this study, the term "teachers" will be used to represent this group). The inclusion criteria include teachers who participate in Thrive or Inspire Professional Learning in 2018-2019. Additionally, 449 teachers from 81 district schools (that are part of the Thrive and Inspire Professional Learning) are were randomized into the study will participate.
• To be eligible for the study, sites met the following criteria: a) have 2 or more PKFA classrooms; b) serve a high-need population and c) leaders ranked Thrive or Inspire as a first or second preference for the school. "High need" was defined as follows: the site level percentage of students in poverty was above the median of the eligible pool; the site level percentage of students in poverty was in the second quartile of the eligible pool and two or more students were listed as living in temporary housing; and/or the site level percentage of students in poverty was in the first quartile of the eligible pool and 5 or more students were listed as living in temporary housing.

Exclusion criteria

• Sites that were currently implementing ParentCorps at the time of the randomization were not eligible for the study. Only teachers who were part of the Thrive or Inspire Professional Learning tracks in 2018-2019 will be eligible.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 3 patient groups

Professional Learning, Program Training and Coaching

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Training

Behavioral: ParentCorps FUNdamentals

Behavioral: ParentCorps 101 E-learning

Behavioral: Coaching

Program for Parents of Pre-K Students

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Training

Program for Pre-K Students

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Coaching