21. Head Start The Micmac culture is integrated into our entire head start curriculum. The head start curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development http://www.micmac-nsn.gov/html/head_start.html

Rick Getchell Director Head Teacher Cheryl Cederman Teacher Aide Robin Holdsworth Health/Disability Coordinator Family Service Worker Lois Griffin Cook/Nutritionist Bus Driver MISSION STATEMENT Little Feathers Head Start was established to promote the importance of education, as well as, the parent’s investment in the families continued educational/social experience while incorporating the Micmac culture and beliefs. Micmac Culture The Micmac culture is integrated into our entire Head Start curriculum. This is done with a variety of activities, some of which include language, songs, stories, crafts, dancing and drumming. Enrollment Policy Pigunji’jg/Little Feathers Head Start is federally funded for a maximum of twenty (20) children. Enrollment will be open to all children who will be three (3) by October 15 of the school year, four (4) and five (5) years old. Enrollment will be pending approval of the Head Start Policy Council and meeting criteria. Curriculum The Head Start curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development: SOCIAL: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their new environment, make new friends, and feel they are a part of the group.

22. General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony : Head Start: Curriculum Use And I General Accounting Office Reports Testimony head start curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development. http://static.highbeam.com/g/generalaccountingofficereportsamptestimony/october0

Library Web Executives New! ... Customer Support Question / Keyword(s): Advanced Search Current Article: Head Start: Curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development. Start G October 01, 2003 Head Start: Curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development. Head Start: Curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development. October 01, 2003 GAO-03-1049 September 12, 2003 To enhance Head Start's contribution to the school readiness of children from low-income families, the 1998 amendments to the Head Start Act provided for updating the Head Start performance standards to ensure that when children leave the program, they have the basic skills needed to start school. Head Start's performance standards for education and early childhood development require that the programs' curricula support each child's cognitive and language development, including emergent literacy skills. In preschool children, cognitive and language development refers to the fundamental abilities needed to reason and to speak a language. Skills in emergent literacy are the precursors to reading, such as learning the letters of the alphabet. The curriculum Head Start programs use must meet the definition for a written curriculum in Head Start's performance standards. Programs have the option of developing their own curriculum, Tools: Save Article Export to Microsoft Office E-mail Print Font Size:

23. Head Start The standards for the head start curriculum are based on a Our curriculum is called Foundations. PCCEO Head Start believes it is important to lay the http://www.pcceo.org/headstart.htm

FAMILY DEVEOPMENT PROGRAMS Head Start Early Head Start Even Start CSBG PROGRAMS Peoria Area Food Bank CSBG Scholarships Prescription Assistance Emergency Services ... Media Services ENERGY SERVICES LIHEAP - Energy Assistance Home Weatherization HOUSING SERVICES Lead Hazard Mitigation Home Rehabilitation PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS Senior Meals Foster Grandparents ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS Peoria Affordable Housing Central Illinois Catering Spring Grove Subdivision SITEMAP Head Start Head Start Mission and Value Statements Education and Early Childhood Development Curriculum Family Development ... HEAD START DAILY SCHEDULES Our Mission We at PCCEO, Inc. Early Head Start and Head Start identify ourselves as partners in the delivery of high quality, comprehensive services to economically challenged families and children in Peoria County. Our Value Statement PCCEO EHS and HS is dedicated to providing quality services to children and families. We value honesty, respect, justice, equity, personal development and professional growth. It is our desire to promote these values for our organization and our community through effective leadership and teamwork. Head Start offers eight (8) quality early childhood learning centers with 35 years of experience in early child development. The standards for the Head Start curriculum are based on a developmentally appropriate model and include learning goals in language and literacy, physical development, cognitive development, and social and emotional development. We are aware that each child develops at their own rate and our curriculum is based on individual interests, temperaments, languages, cultural backgrounds and learning styles. Our overall goal is to enhance the development of the whole child and to provide learning experiences that will promote school readiness.

24. CSKT - Early Childhood Services The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes head start curriculum is based on self concept with the knowledge that a child who feels good and is confident http://www.cskt.org/services/ecs.htm

Main Office Hours are Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm (Mountain Time) Announcements: Download Flyer with Door Prize Ticket here E arly Childhood Services and Tribal Health and Human Services are pleased to coordinate a health screening day. This will cover the “Head Start Physical” (required for enrollment); Dental Exam/Screening (required during program year) ; Height; Weight; Vision Screenings and any needed updates to your child’s immunization history. Please consider this opportunity that is available for upcoming Early Head Start and Head Start Children for the 2005-06 Program Year. Please consider this opportunity that is available for upcoming Early Head Start and Head Start Children for the 2005-06 Program Year. August 9 and 18 in Polson Tribal Health Clinic, August 10 and 11 in St. Ignatius Tribal Health Clinic August 12 and 19 in Pablo, SKC , John Peter Paul Building, upstairs Appointments begin at 9:00 am through 3:00 pm. Please call 676-4509 to schedule as this is a first come, first served. Walk-ins will not be guaranteed a spot.

25. Curriculum, School Activities At Building Blocks head start curriculum Matrix. No one has the time to teach one more thing! That’s why we have made sure that the suggested activities and materials within http://www.bblocks.samhsa.gov/Educators/TeachingTips/headstart.aspx

BUILDING BLOCKS EDUCATORS TEACHING TIPS HEAD START MATRIX Head Start Curriculum Matrix Building Blocks for a Healthy Future We have aligned each product with the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework, matching major elements within each domain: Language development Literacy Mathematics Science ... Awards

26. Studies In The News: The Latest Issue head start curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development. By US General Accounting Office. GAO03-1049. http://www.library.ca.gov/SITN/2003/0361.htm

Subject: Studies in the News 03-61 (September 25, 2003) CALIFORNIA RESEARCH BUREAU CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY Studies in the News Children and Family Supplement Contents This Week Introductory Material Preventing child abuse and neglect Bullying and crime prevention EDUCATION The education of children with disabilities ... Maternal obesity/depression and television Introduction to Studies in the News Studies in the News is a very current compilation of items significant to the Legislature and Governor's Office. It is created weekly by the State Library's Research Bureau to supplement the public policy debate in California’s Capitol. To help share the latest information with state policymakers, these reading lists are now being made accessible through the State Library’s website. This week's list of current articles in various public policy areas is presented below. Service to State Employees: When available, the URL for the full text of each item is provided. Items in the State Library collection can be checked out to state officials and staff. Access to all materials listed will be provided by the State Information Reference Center, either by e-mail to

27. Child Care And Early Education Research Connections (CCEERC) Title, head start curriculum use and individual child assessment in cognitive and language development. Primary Author, United States. http://www.childcareresearch.org/location/ccrca5674

Agent: SecretBrowser/007 Home Page Contact Us Help Site Map A Comprehensive Resource for Researchers and Policy Makers Public Policies State Data Tools Understanding Research Contribute Research ... Search will not display correctly with your current Web browser. View Resource Details Printer-Friendly Related Resources Resource Type: Other Title: Head Start: Curriculum use and individual child assessment in cognitive and language development Primary Author: United States. General Accounting Office Date Issued: Source: Retrieved March 18, 2005, from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d031049.pdf Publisher(s): United States. General Accounting Office Full Text: from ccrca5674.pdf (pdf 541.91KB) or from www.gao.gov/new.items/d031049.pdf Country: United States Peer Reviewed?: no Related Resources: CCEERC has 4 resources that are related to this work. Policy Links State Data Tools Understanding Research Contribute Research ... Site Map

28. SIUC Head Start Classroom Information The SIUC head start curriculum consists of wellplanned units that Head Start’s classroom curriculum is designed to meet the child’s individual needs. http://www.siu.edu/~headstart/classroom.html

content Search SIUC Home Locations Locations. Skip to Services. Administration Carbondale Johnston City ... Calendar Calendar. Skip to Classroom Information. SIUC Head Start calendar Carbondale year-round calendar Eurma Hayes calendar ... Classroom Information Classroom Information. Skip to Newsletter. Classroom Information Program/Schedule Options Parent Handbook (PDF file) ... For Staff For Staff. Skip to top. Procedures Manual Policy Manual CLASSROOM INFORMATION Regardless of cultural background or special needs, every child is offered a variety of learning experiences designed to foster physical, social, emotional, and cognitive growth and to develop an appreciation for ethnic and cultural diversity. Our classrooms prepare children to enter kindergarten and to be school ready. Classroom size consists of a maximum of 17-20 children per classroom. Teaching staff consists of highly qualified teachers to work with you and your child. On-going training is provided to ensure teachers are provided with up-to-date teaching skills and materials. The SIUC Head Start Curriculum consists of well-planned units that promote language, literacy, math, creative arts, social emotional development, approaches to learning, physical health and development.

29. Research On Head Start And Early Head Start head start curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development (September 2003), by GAO, formally conveys information http://www.nccic.org/poptopics/research-hs.html

Questions? Privacy Site Index ACF Home ... Home NCCIC Menu Popular Topics Online Library State Contacts State Information NCCIC Publications For Parents For Providers For Goverment CCTAN Internet Links Search NCCIC View PDF Research on Head Start and Early Head Start Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs that serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. They are child-focused programs and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families. Head Start and Early Head Start programs are administered by the Head Start Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The program is locally administered by community-based nonprofit organizations and school systems. The following Federal agencies national organizations , and publications have information about research on Head Start and Early Head Start. Federal Agency Head Start Bureau (HSB) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

30. Fiscal Notes, October 2003 Since 1994, children at the Margaret H. Cone Head Start Center, said she designed the program to enhance the head start curriculum at the Cone center. http://www.window.state.tx.us/comptrol/fnotes/fn0310/leap.html

Fiscal Notes October 2003 Program prepping preschoolers for success Leaping Ahead A project developed in the early 1990s to help prepare under-privileged Dallas children for elementary school has become a model for schools across Texas and the nation. Since 1994, children at the Margaret H. Cone Head Start Center, a preschool in one of Dallas' most economically depressed neighborhoods, have participated in the Language Enrichment Activities Program (LEAP). The program was created by Nell Carvell, director of LEAP and of the Head Start Initiative at Southern Methodist University (SMU), with assistance from the Texas Instruments Foundation, a charitable foundation of Dallas-based Texas Instruments (TI). LEAP focuses on developing preschoolers' vocabulary and listening and motor skills. Carvell said she designed the program to enhance the Head Start curriculum at the Cone center. Head Start is a federally funded program that provides services to preschool children of low-income families. When the Cone center opened in 1990, its families had an average annual income of about $7,000, according to the TI Foundation. Single parents headed 90 percent of the area's households, and just 39 percent of Cone parents were high school graduates. "Those children were not developmentally at a language level commensurate with their age," Carvell said. "They were 4-year-olds performing more at a 3-year-old level. It's not a learning disability, it's an environmental disability."

31. ASU News & Information From The Office Of Media Relations And Public Information NEEP will align Navajo Nation head start curriculum, instruction and assessment with Arizona and New Mexico Early Childhood Education and K3 Academic http://www.asu.edu/news/community/readinggrant_082304.htm

FOR THE MEDIA New Releases Find an Expert Image Downloads Media Contacts ... Video Archive ASU NEWS Campus News Business Research Arts / Culture ... Photo Gallery ABOUT INSIGHT Print Edition PDF Insight Staff Submit a Story Partner Publications PEOPLE President Crow ASU Directory SUBSCRIPTIONS RSS News Feed News By E-mail HOME Joan M. Sherwood , joan.sherwood@asu.edu August 23, 2001 ASU partnership leads to major education grant A partnership involving ASU has resulted in a $2.5 million Early Reading First grant for the Navajo Nation to better prepare youngsters from low-income families to succeed academically and socially in kindergarten and beyond. The federal grant will fund the work of the Navajo Early-Childhood Education Partnership (NEEP), a joint effort of the Navajo Nation, ASU, New Mexico State University and the Southwest Institute for Families and Children with Special Needs. Over the next two years, college-level professional development training will be provided through the project for up to 150 Head Start teachers serving nearly 3,000 Navajo children across three states - Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Community-school-family teams will also be established to help ensure that Navajo Head Start children have the skills they need to enter school ready to learn. Additionally, the training for Navajo Head Start instructors will better equip them to provide special-needs children and families the academic and social support they need to succeed.

32. Welcome To Head Start And Prekindergarten Programs Provides history and details of the curriculum and special programs. http://www.akron.k12.oh.us/dept/844/

Akron Public Schools Head Start and Prekindergarten Programs H How Do I Register My Child? S Services ... Frequently Asked Questions (c) 2000 Akron Public Schools Head Start and Prekindergarten Programs Created: July 24, 2000 by Sharon L. Connor - Last Updated: July 1, 2002 Comments to: Elaine Marcius e-mail:emarcius@akron.k12.oh.us URL: http://www.akron.k12.oh.us A delegate agency of Akron Summit Community Action, Inc.

33. HSIPC - Head Start Bulletins Bulletin 67 curriculum in head start photo, Bulletin 67 curriculum in head This issue provides a comprehensive overview of curriculum in head start, http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/bullet.cfm

Questions? Privacy Site Index Contact Us ... Contact Us Head Start Bulletins Stay abreast of topics important to Head Start success with in-depth coverage on a variety of subjects. Each issue provides real-world answers to questions and serves as a resource for further research and information. Issues of the Head Start Bulletin can be viewed and/or downloaded below easily. Please click here if you prefer to receive a paper copy of the publication. We will be glad to add your name to the automatic mailing list. English Language Learners Head Start Child Outcomes Adult Health Why Research ... Past Issues Bulletin #78: English Language Learners http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/hsbulletin78/cont_78.htm http://www.headstartinfo.org/pdf/Bulletin78.pdf (1.8 MB) Head Start has strong programmatic requirements that specifically refer to the home language, the learning of English, or the cultural background of families and children. Program staff and parents will benefit from the best practices, training models, recent research, and web-based resources identified in this issue. Sections include: The Community and Families; Educational Leaders; Teachers and Home Visitors Speak; Assessment; and Resources. Bulletin #77: Father Involvement http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/hsbulletin77/cont_77.htm

34. Dental Health Curriculium head start Dental Health curriculum. Foreword To the Teacher. LESSONS. Introduction of Smiley the Super Pup Visiting the Dentist http://www.bmcc.org/Headstart/Dental/

Head Start Dental Health Curriculum Foreword: To the Teacher LESSONS Introduction of "Smiley the Super Pup" Visiting the Dentist Awareness of the Mouth The Important Functions of the Mouth ... Your Role in Helping Children With Disabilities

35. ACF OPRE: Head Start Family And Child Experiences Survey (FACES) Keeping You Informed About Research Relevant To The head start Community Curricula 70 percent of teachers used a single, specific curriculum while just http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/faces/pres_papers/nhsa/nhsa_home.html

Questions? Privacy Site Index Contact Us ... Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) Search Type Title Author/Investigator Search Advanced Search Return to Previous page Children and Families (Winter 2003) RESEARCH UPDATE Keeping You Informed About Research Relevant To The Head Start Community The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) What are We Learning about Program Quality and Child Development? by Ruth Hubbell McKey (The author represents the FACES study research team) Begun in 1997, FACES is a way to look at the program performance of Head Start and its children over time. It began with a stratified national probability sample of 40 programs and 3,200 children who were followed from the time they entered Head Start at ages 3 or 4 through first grade. In 2000, a second group of 43 different programs and 2,800 children was selected for study. Because data are now available on the 1997 and the 2000 groups of children, we can look at how the program and children are changing over time. Is the quality of Head Start improving? Are children learning more now than just a few years ago? Are they progressing in certain areas of development but not in others? Head Start classroom quality Program and teacher characteristics relating to classroom quality: Curricula: 70 percent of teachers used a single, specific curriculum while just over 20 percent used a combination. The majority used The Creative Curriculum by Teaching Strategies Inc. (39 percent) or the High/Scope curriculum (20 percent), but 41 percent used another curriculum. Nearly 60 percent of teachers received training in their curriculum from their own programs, with 14 percent receiving it from the curricula developers, 10 percent from Head Start Quality Improvement Center, and the remainder from other sources. More than 90 percent of teachers liked their curriculum for a variety of reasons including that it covered multiple domains, was easy use and adapt, involved parents, provided room for teacher creativity, and had adequate learning materials.

36. ACF OPRE: Head Start Quality Research Centers Consortium II (QRC) Achieving head start Effectiveness through Intensive curriculum Training The Companion curriculum Connecting head start Parents and Teachers to Promote http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/qrc_two/qrc_two_patnr_oview.html

Questions? Privacy Site Index Contact Us ... Head Start Quality Research Centers Consortium II (QRC) Search Type Title Author/Investigator Search Advanced Search Research Partners Overview Columbia University, NY: Sharon Lynn Kagan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Using Assessment to Improve School Readiness and Head Start Program Quality In partnership with programs in Stamford and Waterbury, CT, the research team will implement an innovative observational assessment system for Head Start children, classrooms and programs, and provide the supports and resources necessary to use data from the assessments to improve classroom and program practice and child outcomes. Collaboration with the Connecticut Department of Education on school readiness outcomes is a key feature. Education Development Center, MA: Nancy Clark-Chiarelli and David K. Dickinson A Systematic Approach to Fostering Language and Literacy Development Collaborating with programs in Waltham and Boston, MA, the researchers will develop, implement and assess the Program-Delivered Literacy Through Inservice Training (PD-LIT) to enable programs to create their own self-improvement programs with a focus on language and literacy development. The intervention features intensive professional development activities involving both QIC staff and mentor teachers from the program.

37. Insitute Content:Curriculum, Ongoing Assessment, And Child Outcomes head start requires the use of a written curriculum, but also provides for head start requires a written curriculum plan but not a prepackaged set of http://www.hsnrc.org/CDI/sbredekamp1.cfm

Questions? Privacy Site Index ACF Home ... ACF Search Curriculum, Ongoing Assessment, and Child Outcomes Sue Bredekamp, The Council for Professional Recognition Sue Bredekamp is currently Director of Research at the Council for Professional Recognition and is a consultant to the Head Start Bureau. From 1984-98, she served as Director of Professional Development of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). She co-authored Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children , the 1998 joint position statement of the International Reading Association and NAEYC. During her tenure with NAEYC, Bredekamp developed and directed a national, voluntary accreditation system for which she wrote three editions of Accreditation Criteria and Procedures and Guide to Accreditation . She is the primary author of the 1987 and 1997 editions of NAEYC’s highly influential and best-selling publication Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs . She also researched and wrote NAEYC position statements on standardized testing and curriculum and assessment, and edited the two-volume

38. Institute Content:Curriculum: Birth To Five The National head start Child Development Institute curriculum Panel The How does the use of a curriculum address the head start Outcomes Framework? http://www.hsnrc.org/CDI/ddodge1.cfm

Questions? Privacy Site Index ACF Home ... ACF Search Curriculum: Birth to Five Diane Trister Dodge, Teaching Strategies, Inc. Diane Trister Dodge The Creative Curriculum (1989) and the Bronze Apple Award for the videotape Caring and Learning (1991) from the National Educational Film and Video Festival. She also won the Golden Eagle Award from the Council on International Non-theatrical Events for the videotape Individualizing in Head Start "No matter how appropriate and comprehensive a curriculum, it will remain simply a book on a shelf unless it is used to plan the program and to serve as a focus for staff development." — Diane Trister Dodge Presentation Highlights This presentation addresses the following three questions: 1) What is the value of using a curriculum? 2) What does it mean to implement a curriculum? and 3) How should a curriculum address the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework? Curriculum Curriculum is a roadmap and should be both a vision of what the program looks like and framework for making decisions. At each stage of development, there are issues of central importance to the healthy growth and development of young children that should be considered. Curriculum is a framework for planning within a program, individualizing for each child, and developing effective teaching strategies.

39. High/Scope And Head Start Revised head start Performance Standards? YES! By Ann S. Epstein—Director, Early Childhood High/Scope Builds on the head start Definition of curriculum http://www.highscope.org/EducationalPrograms/EarlyChildhood/compatible.htm

products articles Educational Programs Revised Head Start Performance Standards? YES! Reprinted from Education and Early Childhood Development Facilities, Materials, and Equipment Family Partnerships Human Resource Management (1304.52), and Management Systems and Procedures I n each case, the relevant Standards are listed, followed by a discussion of comparable areas in the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum. (fn 1) A New Head Start Emphasis on Curriculum HSPS 1304.3 Definitions 5. The curriculum is consistent with the Head Start Performance Standards and is based on sound child development principles about how children grow and learn. Curriculum means a written plan that includes: ii. The experiences through which they will achieve these goals iii. What staff and parents do to help children achieve these goals iv. The materials needed to support the implementation of the curriculum

40. The High/Scope® Approach: Preschool The High/Scope® Preschool curriculum is used in both public and private half and full-day What is the relationship of High/Scope® to head start? http://www.highscope.org/EducationalPrograms/EarlyChildhood/homepage.htm

products articles Educational Programs Head Start programs, child care centers, home-based child care programs, intergenerational programs, and programs for children with special needs. Originally designed for low-income, "at-risk" children, the High/Scope® approach is now used for the full range of children and has been successfully implemented in both urban and rural settings both in the U.S. and around the world. As more and more states and local school districts move toward universal or targeted pre-kindergarten programs, they must consider which curriculum model to adopt, how to train staff, and how to measure the program's quality and effectiveness. High/Scope's child development orientation makes it highly compatible with various state standards for early childhood learning and with Head Start outcomes.

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