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Hearts and Minds on Babies offers professional development training for teachers, designed to support teachers as well as the teacher-child and teacher-parent relationship.
Hearts and Minds on Babies offers professional development training for teachers, and is currently being delivered and evaluated in Early Head Start classrooms at sites across Michigan.
Our program is designed to support teachers as well as the teacher-child and teacher-parent relationship. To accomplish this, Hearts and Minds on Babies delivers an attachment-based curriculum that supports teachers in nurturing young children’s development, while also building social support and effective strategies for stress management for parents and teachers, as well as a useful framework for responding to common caregiving challenges. The program is currently undergoing a federally-funded collaborative multisite evaluation led by faculty from Wayne State University (Ann Stacks, PhD), Michigan State University (Claire Vallotton, PhD, and Holly Brophy-Herb, PhD) and the University of Michigan Zero to Thrive program (Maria Muzik, MD and Kate Rosenblum PhD). Results of our initial evaluation suggest that the professional development training strengthens teachers’ understanding of children’s emotional experiences, increases sensitive responding, and creates a common language for parents and teachers to communicate about young children’s experiences.
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The Hearts and Minds on Babies (HMB) is professional development training for Early Head Start teachers that is designed to support teachers as well as the teacher-child and teacher-parent relationship. We have two stages the HMB: one for teachers (HMB) and one for parents (HMB+P), as well as a corresponding curriculum for administrators and agency leadership.
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