Education & Child Development

A Head Start on Picturing America Resource Guide

PDF for Keynote: Assessing Young Dual Language Learners: What You Need to Learners: What You Need to Know and Why (Part II).

Developmental Screening, Assessment, and Evaluation: Key Elements for Individualizing Curricula in Early Head Start Programs

Watch this video blog from Dr. Deborah Bergeron to learn five ways Head Start programs can connect with the schools that will receive their children.

This Office of Head Start (OHS) 2008 live broadcast discusses the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®). Learn how Head Start grantees and programs can use it to support professional development and quality improvement efforts. The webcast features Dr. Bob Pianta, the developer of the CLASS®, and the OHS leadership team. They discuss the scope of the CLASS® and ways to integrate CLASS® into the Head Start monitoring and review process. The webcast also focuses on the upcoming CLASS® pilot and how to best implement CLASS® and effective strategies to provide CLASS® results to grantees.

Read a two-part paper about why and how to individualize care. Learn how to meet the interests, abilities, and needs of infants, toddlers, and their families.

Listen to this audio conference, where faculty share strategies for making observation practical and meaningful to Early Head Start and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start staff’s work.

This webinar outlines the supports available to Early Head Start programs implementing the home-based model through the Maternal and Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV). Panelists discuss the Office of Head Start's (OHS) training and technical assistance (T/TA) infrastructure and how to access resources and T/TA. They also talk about the roles and responsibilities of the OHS’s Regional and Central Offices in providing support for model fidelity and implementation of the Head Start Program Performance Standards.

Use this resource with teachers, family child care providers, and home visitors who work with infants, toddlers, and their families.It offers information on observation as well as strategies to support and strengthen this important component of quality infant and toddler care.

Watch this third session in the series from the Office of Head Start. It addresses focuses on implementing Subpart C – Education and Child Development Program Services, 45 CFR §1302, during the COVID-19 pandemic.