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Health and School Readiness

Explore these resources to learn about the connection between health and school readiness and to ensure every Head Start child is ready to succeed in school.

Assessment and Progress Monitoring in Early Childhood

Learn how staff can monitor individual children and classrooms to ensure that children are making adequate progress toward school readiness. This video is presented by Dr. Scott McConnell, University of Minnesota.

Preschool Teachers

Teachers know and understand the broad range of content areas and the developmental expectations (i.e., social and emotional, cognitive, expressive and receptive language, motor, adaptive, and English language development) appropriate for young children as outlined by the Head Start Early Learning Framework. Teachers consider what they want children to know, understand, and be able to do using the five essential domains.

Family Engagement and Ongoing Child Assessment

The partnership between parents and staff is fundamental to children's current and future success in school readiness and beyond. Discover how programs can share information with families about children's learning and progress toward school readiness outcomes.

When Health Affects Assessment

Use this fact sheet to better understand how child health may impact assessment. It includes a list of tools that programs can use to improve child assessment strategies..

Effective Instruction: Ongoing Assessment

Learn how ongoing assessment can be a useful way to inform teaching practices. Explore how to use it to help children with disabilities reach their annual goals.

Learning Community Around Data

Read how Head Start teachers in Minnesota created a statewide learning community that has not only studied the value of authentic assessment but has also built a state Head Start database that combines assessment, demographic, and classroom information.