Phase 6: Continuous Program Improvement
Learn how evaluating family goals at the program level can help ensure that your program is well-situated to support the families you partner with.
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Continuous Improvement
These resources explain how Head Start programs use data from ongoing monitoring and annual self-assessments to improve systems and services that help in achieving goals related to positive outcomes for children and families. Ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement together make up one of the 12 program management systems of the Management Systems Wheel and are a program foundation in the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.
Annual Community Assessment Update Considerations
Assess significant community changes, including regulatory updates, that could affect program operations and service delivery.
Data on Improving Quality in Head Start Programs
Four reports provide evidence that, since the last reauthorization, quality in Head Start has increased across the country..
Intentional Planning and Quality Improvement in Family Child Care
Use these resources and materials to help plan to deliver services within a family child care setting.
Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Explore key components of ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement. Examine their purpose in the planning cycle and identify valuable tools and practices for program leaders.
1303.32 Evaluations and corrective actions for delegate agencies.
Grant recipients must evaluate and ensure corrective action for delegate agencies according to Sec. 641A(d) of the Head Start Act.
CLASS Quality Improvement
Explore the resources on this page to find information useful to directors, education managers, coaches, teachers, and others who want to improve the quality of instruction for children in Head Start programs.
Head Start and CLASS Quality Improvement
Learn more about how the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS): Pre-K® observation tool helps improve teacher-child interactions program quality and child outcome.
