Earlier this week, the Office of Head Start (OHS) released a Program Instruction (PI) – Disaster Recovery Funding for 2018 and 2019 Disasters ACF-PI-HS-19-01– that describes funding available to Head Start/Early Head Start programs that have been impacted...
By Julie Weatherington, Consultant and Trainer Practice-based coaching is a professional development strategy for guiding early learning providers’ use of evidence-based best practice to improve teaching methods and promote positive child outcomes. It is a powerful...
By Julie Shuell, Senior Consultant, Foundations for Families Data-driven decision making relies on having access to information and using it to think about current programming, funding strategies, partnerships, and staffing. The upcoming 2020 Census will provide new...
By Amanda Schwartz, Consultant, Foundations for Families The children in your program come with a wide variety of strengths, challenges, and needs which you and your staff work hard to support. Sometimes those needs qualify them for special education or health...
By Patti Greenstein, Consultant and Trainer, Foundations for Families Designated by the Head Start Act as an evaluation requirement of Head Start/Early Head Start grantees, CLASS is one measure the Office of Head Start (OHS) uses to assess program quality. In our work...
