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Self-Assessment: Your Annual Journey takes you on a road trip with the Moving Forward Head Start program. It begins with the transition from ongoing monitoring to self-assessment and ends with a move back into the program planning cycle. Along the way, you’ll practice each key aspect of self-assessment in the following phases:

Overview
Learn about new thinking and best practices for the annual Self-Assessment.
PRE: From Ongoing Monitoring to Self-Assessment
Prioritize what to bring to the annual Self-Assessment.
Phase 1: Design the Process
Identify and invite the right team members to join the team.
Phase 2: Engage the Team
Orient your Self-Assessment team. Keep your team on the right path with helpful facilitation techniques.
Phase 3: Analyze and Dialogue
Explore data analysis techniques and keep dialogue flowing throughout the team process.
Phase 4: Recommend
Group discoveries into themes. Sort recommendations based on these themes into: Progress on Goals and Objectives, Systemic Issues, and/or Innovations.
Phase 5: Prepare Report
Determine where information belongs in the final report.
POST: From Self-Assessment to Program Planning
Make the link from Self-Assessment back to each part of ongoing program planning.
Wrap-Up
Download all resources and forms from this module.
- Overview: Learn about new thinking and best practices for the annual self-assessment. The Self-Assessment Overview Webinar (01:20:10 min.) offers an alternative training tool for exploring the nuts-and-bolts of the self-assessment journey.
- PRE: From Ongoing Monitoring to Self-Assessment: Prioritize what to bring to the Annual Self-Assessment.
- Phase 1: Design the Process: Identify and invite the right team members to join the team.
- Phase 2: Engage the Team: Orient your Self-Assessment team. Keep your team on the right path with helpful facilitation techniques.
- Phase 3: Analyze and Dialogue: Explore data analysis techniques and keep dialogue flowing throughout the team process.
- Phase 4: Recommend: Group discoveries into themes. Sort recommendations based on these themes into: Progress on Goals and Objectives, Systemic Issues, and Innovations.
- Phase 5: Prepare Report: Determine where information belongs in the final report.
- POST: From Self-Assessment to Program Planning: Make the link from self-assessment back to each part of ongoing program planning.
- Wrap-up: Download all resources and forms from this module.
The module takes approximately one hour to complete. In order to fully understand the new thinking on self-assessment, we strongly recommend you work through each phase. If time does not permit, select the phases that best match your interest, knowledge, and needs regarding the annual self-assessment.
Materials
- Being an Effective Team Facilitator
- Best Practices for Self-Assessment
- Categorizing Recommendations
- Core Members of the Self-Assessment Team
- Inviting Self-Assessment Team Members: The Elevator Speech
- Keeping Self-Assessment in Mind Throughout Program Planning
- Moving Forward Head Start: Broad Goals
- Moving Forward Head Start and Early Head Start Program: Self-Assessment Report
- Orientation PowerPoint
- Questions to Help Prioritize Topics for Self-Assessment
- Summary of Ongoing Monitoring Results
- Summary of Progress on Goals and Objectives
- Taking a Closer Look at the Data
- Template for Self-Assessment Report
- Self-Assessment: Your Annual Journey – Text Version
Topic:Program Planning
Keywords:Self-assessment
Resource Type: Article
Audience: Directors and Managers
Last Updated: February 4, 2019