Understanding Meaning in Behaviors that Challenge Us
Watch this webinar and explore how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers use behavior to communicate their needs, intentions, and emotions, and how adults can effectively respond.
Watch this webinar and explore how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers use behavior to communicate their needs, intentions, and emotions, and how adults can effectively respond.
Explore tips for engaging in sensitive conversations with families.
Learn about the Maternity Group Homes (MGH) program. Discover how one MGH and Early Head Start program are working together to meet the needs of pregnant and parenting youth who are experiencing homelessness.
Explore strategies from the Pyramid Model that are relevant in a stressful time, like a pandemic. Learn how the disruption of routines may add more intensity to preexisting trauma for children and their families.
Learn about updates to the Office of Head Start (OHS) monitoring process. Find out how the updated process verifies compliance with the Head Start Program Performance Standards.
Vaccines, especially the flu vaccine, are important protective measures. Head Start programs can make a big impact by encouraging staff, parents, and children to get these important vaccines to stay healthy.
The Designation Renewal System Final Rule makes important changes to the Classroom Assessment Scoring System condition. Dr. B explains how these changes promote a growth mindset and support continuous improvement.
Find out how Head Start staff also work with families to help them set goals, address their most pressing needs, identify their strengths, and most of all, help them find their own voices.
In this video, Dr. Bergeron and Barbara Duffield, executive director of Schoolhouse Connections, talk about ways Head Start programs can best support families experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus crisis.
Every year, more than 320,000 Head Start children enter kindergarten. In this video, Dr. B discusses how efforts to support the transition to kindergarten can continue for all Head Start 4-year-olds in 2020.