Coaching – individualized professional development grounded in the daily practice of the early childhood classroom – is one of the most effective strategies to equip our workforce for success (Kraft, Blazar, & Hogan, 2018). In this brief, we discuss:

1. why we should expand access to coaching,
2. what makes coaching effective in a birth-to-five context, and
3. what steps New York State has taken to create a coaching infrastructure. (author abstract)