There are also other possible explanations for non significant results in the lite racy environment and lite racy
activities teacher practices . During the data collection
process, teacher s were interviewed as part of the ELLCO
tool requirements about their general overview of the
mentor -coach initiative. One of the interview questions was
‘‘Is the mentor-coach initiative continuing in your program?’’ Out of the 44 teachers that participated in the
study, 34 of them agreed that the men tor-coach initiative
was continuing in their program. Even though the mentor-coach initiative was provided during the year 2002–200 3,
this initiative was continuing in the Head Start programs. It
is possible that all teachers in the two groups had experienced the mentor-coach initiative in some way .