Ongoing Monitoring & Improvement & Governance Alignment with School Readiness Effective and Intentional Teaching Practices Child Health Status and Caring
100
ChildPlus Reports
Behavioral/Developmental & Sensory Screenings
Attendance Data
Health & Safety Checks
Family Partnership Agreements
Family Outcomes/Needs
CLASS outcomes
Teaching Strategies Outcomes
Disabilities & Behavior Documentation
Head Start Management Competencies Assessment
Attendance Data
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What are 2 ways we analyze our program & families to ensure continuous improvement in all service areas and to identify risk.
100
Creative Curriculum
What is the curriculum used by Head Start?
100
Individual child reports are documented in Teaching Strategies
Objectives in Lesson Plan identified based on results from screenings/assessments (observations, anecdotal notes, ASQ’s, Teaching Strategies, etc.)
Identified concerns from ASQ screenings, specific strategies are implemented
How do teachers individualize for children, including those who are not making progress toward school readiness?
100
Completing referrals
Doing initial health screenings (hearing/vision/health history)
Dental varnish program
Making sure that children have a medical and dental home
Completing nutrition screenings
Using ChildPlus follow up reports and making follow up with families
Completing reminders and working with the family
What are 3 ways that our program ensures that children are up to date on their age-appropriate medical and oral health care and follow up care?
200
Home Language Survey in Teaching Strategies
Staff are Bilingual
Forms are in English & Spanish (other translations available)
Partnering with Families to Learn common phrases in home languages to use in classroom
ChildPlus Language data is aggregated to inform hiring preferences, in order to provide dual language learner with staff reflective of demographic needs
Teaching materials and classroom objects are labeled in English & Spanish, etc.
What are 2 ways that staff maintain effective participation of children & their families who are dual language learners?
200
Teachers, Principal, and Superintendent are invited to the local centers and strategies are outlined when establishing LEA agreements between the program and the school district
How does Head Start encourage public school collaboration to promote successful transitions to kindergarten?
200
Observations through CLASS
Creative Curriculum
Curriculum Resources
Lesson Planning Activities
Conscious Discipline Implementation in lesson planning
Active Supervision
What are 3 ways our program creates nurturing and responsive learning environments for children, ensuring that the environment promotes critical thinking and problem solving while encouraging children’s engagement and communication?
200
A parent/guardian or emergency contact that the primary caregiver has chosen for that child
Who can a child be released to?
300
Enrollment reports
director's report that includes staffing updates, fiscal, facilities, monitoring, and program celebrations
teaching strategies child outcomes data analysis reports tri-annually
complaint procedure shared with PC to Take Back to parent committee meetings to identify additional needs.
What information does policy council use to ensure the program is delivering quality services and to actively participate in the direction of the program?
300
FA works with the family to involve them in individualized planning.
Transition plans are used with teacher, family, and the FA.
Share any preschool information with the family for the local area
Assist families with the HS application
What strategies does the program implement to support successful transitions for children and families out of Early Head Start?
300
CLASS
Intentional teaching-lesson planning
Teacher child interactions/observations
Daily visual schedules posted for children to see
Planned activities for non-napping children
Family style meals
Bottle fed babies are held during feedings
Nutrition activities are planned
Transition activities
Language modeling during all transitions
Mighty minutes
Daily gross motor time
Name 4 ways our program demonstrates how teachers support child-teacher interactions, socialization, development, and learning at all times, including daily routines and mealtimes?
300
Monthly health and safety monitoring at all facilities and create a corrective action plan when applicable.
Active supervision checklists
Work orders/track and monitor facility repairs and maintenance through program page
Safety and hygiene protocols are posted in every classroom
Complete observations and identify patters and trends for program improvement
Classroom safety checklist done daily
What are 3 things Head Start does to keep all facilities in safe condition through an ongoing system of preventative maintenance?
400
Policy council Governance Orientation and Training is completed
Bylaws established containing information on composition, quorum, meeting schedule, officer position, roles, and expectations of members, and meeting structure.
Agendas are sent electronically to all members prior to the meeting in order to prepare
Child care services are offered when applicable.
Documents requiring approval are shared electronically in advance for members to review and prepare discussion points.
Agendas, Minutes, and binders are stored at the admin office and provided to PC during Monthly Meetings to update.
What are a few ways policy council members demonstrate how they support active involvement of parents in program operations and how they ensure the agency is responsive to community and parent needs?
400
Program uses Creative Curriculum, Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment System which are scientifically valid and research-based.
What data does Head Start use to show that children are ready to meet expectations of receiving schools?
400
Selection criteria for eligibility includes additional points for children with identified disabilities
IEP/IFSP goals are aligned with the program assessment tools and teachers individualize weekly lesson plans for these goals
Staff attend IFSP/IEP meetings
Classroom environments and schedules are individualized to accommodate all children
IEP/IFSP goals are added weekly to the lesson plans as an individual child plan activity and monitored
Established LEA MOU agreements for shared services for children with disabilities
Name 2 ways that the program teaching staff ensure the full inclusion of children with disabilities?
400
Follow ratio guidelines
Observations
Active supervision strategies
How does the program ensure that appropriate indoor and outdoor supervision takes place?






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