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Volume 16, Number 2   2013      ISSN: 1930-9325 

 
 

CONTENTS 
 
Research Articles 

Examining CLASS dimensions as predictors of pre-k children’s development of 
language, literacy, and mathematics 

Timothy Curby and Catharine Chavez………………………………………….…………....   1 

Head Start Preschoolers’ Emotional Positivity and Emotion Regulation Predict their 
Social-Emotion Behavior, Classroom Adjustment, and Early School Success 

Susanne A. Denham, Hideko H. Bassett, Yana S. Sirotkin, and Katherine Zinsser.………... 18 

Improvement of Child Care Programs’ Health and Safety Policies, and Practices, and 
Children’s Access to Health Care, Linked to Child Care Health Consultation 

Patricia Isbell, Jonathan Kotch, Eric Savage, Elizabeth Gunn, Lydia Lu, and David Weber.. 34 

Social Support through Social Capital: A Model of a Parent Support Group for Mothers 
in an Urban Head Start 

Kelly O’Carroll, Catherine Ayoub, Caroline Watts, William Beardslee………………......... 53 

Parent Voices: An Investigation of the Response Process Validity of the Child 
Behavior Checklist with Head Start Parents 

Marlo Perry, Yumiko Miller, Rachel Fusco, John Fantuzzo……..…………………….......... 75 

Exploring the predictable classroom: preschool teacher stress, emotional 
supportiveness, and students’ social emotional behavior in private and Head Start 
classrooms  

Katherine M. Zinsser, Craig S. Bailey, Timothy W. Curby, Susanne A. Denham, and 

Hideko H. Bassett..…………….…………………………………………………………….. 90 

 

  



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Research-to-Practice Summaries 

Prioritizing Interactions to Support Children’s Academic Achievement 
Timothy Curby and Catherine Chavez……………………………………….….…………..  109 

Keep Calm and Carry on: The Importance of children’s emotional positivity and 
regulation for success in Head Start  

Yana S. Sirotkin, Susanne A. Denham, Hideko H. Bassett, and Katherine M. Zinsser……. 113 

Child Care Health Consultation: Improving the Health and Safety of Children in 
Child Care 

Patricia Isbell, Jonathan Kotch, Eric Savage, Elizabeth Gunn, Lydia Lu, David Weber....... 120 

Supporting Head Start Parents with a Parent Support Group 
Kelly L. O’Carroll, Catherine Ayoub, Caroline Watts, and William R. Beardslee…..…...... 125 

Consistently Emotionally Supportive Preschool Teachers and Children’s Social-
emotional Learning in the Classroom: Implications for Center Directors and Teachers 

Craig S. Bailey, Katherine M. Zinsser, Timothy W. Curby, Susanne A. Denham,  

and Hideko H. Basset………………………………………………………………………... 131