This series of professional development training modules highlights individual journal articles featured in the Head Start Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness Resource Catalogues (Volumes 1-3). Head Start program directors, education managers, trainers, and others may use this content to encourage discussion with staff on culture, dual language learning, and best practices.
Head Start and Early Head Start programs can use this tool to track their implementation of high-quality language and literacy practices, measure progress, and continue to expand and perfect their language and literacy services.
This guide provides information about two new federal programs that could help make student loans easier to pay back. All full time Head Start employees can use this information to apply for a reduction to their monthly student loan payments and begin down the path to loan forgiveness.
This webinar, part of the Ready for Success series, focuses on how to best assess the progress of dual language learners in Early Head Start and Head Start. The members of the panel discuss how to systematically observe and assess, how to be culturally and linguistically responsive, how to utilize the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework, and how to develop goals to create individualized assessment practices. A viewer's guide and additional resources are available below.
Viewer Guide PDF for Assessing the Progress of Children Who are Dual Language Learners in Head Start and Early Head Start.
Ready for Success Series
This webinar, as part of the Ready for Success series led by the Office of Head Start's Early Language Specialist, Sharon Yandian, focuses on assessing children's progress in learning English as a second language. Panelists discuss the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework as a tool in the assessment of expressive and receptive English language development in children who are dual language learners.
2008 Dual Language Learners Institute General Session - Carol Hammer
Carol Hammer, keynote speaker for the 2008 Dual Language Learner's Institute General Session, discusses major findings from research conducted with Dual Language Learners. Head Start programs may find these findings useful in assessing and supporting language development.
Assessment should drive curriculum when serving young English language learners. Linda Espinosa recommends that Head Start staff assess the environment and individual characteristics of each dual language learner in their care. Beyond assessing the child, Espinosa also encourages staff to affirm the language development expectations, methods, and models used in the classroom to interpret the development of the child.
Audubon Area Head Start Outcomes-based Job Description and Performance Appraisal System Slides
PDF for Bilingualism is Good Brain Exercise for Kids (and Adults).
Last Updated: October 5, 2017