Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework Implementation Toolkit
Explore this toolkit guides the alignment process and helps strengthen practices to promote children’s development in all ELOF domains.
Early Learning Outcomes Framework
The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework describes how children progress across key areas of learning and development. This information helps adults better understand how they can provide experiences that support important early learning outcomes for all children.
Resources in this collection support children's development across five central ELOF domains: Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; Cognition; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Effective Practice Guides
The Effective Practice Guides provide information about teaching practices that support children’s development across ELOF domains. See what these practices look like in early learning settings.
Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation: Video 1
Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation: Video 1
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Review the standards programs must follow to provide high-quality early education and child development services that promote cognitive, social, and emotional growth for all children's later success in school.
ELOF2GO Mobile App
Learn more about the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) anywhere you go, by downloading this useful mobile app designed for teachers.
Head Start Approach to School Readiness: FAQs
The Head Start Approach to School Readiness means that children are ready for school, families are ready to support their children's learning, and schools are ready for children.