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Enhancing Social-Emotional Learning in Head Start Programs

This presentation discusses strategies to improve adult-child interactions, monitoring systems, professional learning, communication, and policy updates in Head Start programs. It highlights measurable outcomes and next steps to promote self-regulation, intentional play, and emotional responses. The budget and future plans for the 2019-2020 school year are also outlined, emphasizing child-centered teaching and learning practices.

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Enhancing Social-Emotional Learning in Head Start Programs

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  1. Head Start Presentation to the Board of Education Mary Derwin and Elizabeth Gaffney • May 13, 2019

  2. Head Start

  3. Overview Enrollment Programmatic Goal Head Start Monitoring Event Funding Update

  4.  Current Enrollment

  5. Goal: Improve Social Emotional Learning Strategies: • Improve quality of adult/child interactions • Create systems and structures for monitoring • Provide professional learning opportunities in support of social emotional learning • Increase program wide communication • Update policy and procedures

  6. Strategy One: Improve Quality of Adult/Child Interactions • Created Action Plan, Implemented and Monitored • Normed Supervision of Five Key Administrators •  Established Tiered Supports through Coaching and Professional Learning   • Strengthened and Aligned Goal Setting by all Head Start Staff • Engaged Additional Feedback from External Experts

  7. Strategy Two: Create Systems and Structures for Monitoring • Conducted instructional rounds by administrators and supervisors • Established tiered systems of support for Head Start staff based on data • Engaged community partners to secure additional feedback • Strengthened and aligned goal setting by teaching teams and individuals to support the Social Emotional Domains • Monitored by Regional Office of Head Start • Observed thirty-three classrooms utilizing the CLASS Observational Assessment

  8. Strategy Three: Increase Professional Learning Opportunities • Instituted program-wide meetings that allowed all stakeholders to have access to professional learning opportunities: • How to Establish an Emotionally Supportive/Sensitive Classroom • Positive Child Guidance • Supporting English Language Learners • Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Screening of Resilience • Creating a Climate of Safety • CLASS professional development in Instructional Support and Classroom Organization • Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM)

  9. Strategy Four: Increase Program-wide Communication • Established a calendar of regularly scheduled collaborative meetings: • Head Start Leadership Team meetings (weekly) • Head Start Data Team meetings (bi-weekly) • Head Start Management meetings (monthly) • Early Childhood Team meetings (monthly) • Published monthly Head Start Staff Newsletter • Facilitated monthly program-wide staff meetings • Organized quarterly meetings with building administration housing Head Start classrooms • Held meetings with collective bargaining units (as needed) • Maintained regular on-going focused communication with Board of Education representatives • Conducted Culture and Climate Survey

  10. Strategy Five: Update Policy and Procedures • Updated Head Start Mandated Reporting Policy to align with State of Connecticut Guidelines • Strengthened District Head Start Reporting Protocol • Created additional opportunities for reinforcement of policy and procedures • Provided additional learning opportunities for clarification of legal responsibilities and moral obligations

  11. Measurable Outcomes

  12. Fall Winter Measurable Outcomes 14% 34% Winter Below Winter Meeting Winter Exceeding 52% • Next Steps: • Continue to foster trusting relationships amongst students and staff • Provide classroom opportunities for the promotion of self-regulation • Implement intentional play based instruction that fosters friendships, inquiry and competence • Design experiences that foster expression, recognition and response to emotions Fall Below Fall Meeting Fall Exceeding 5% 33% 62%

  13. Moving Forward • Implementing STEM Institute Impacting All Stakeholders • Finalizing Approval of Head Start Budget • Operations: $5,676,564 • Training and Technical Assistance: $66,934 • Utilizing Two-month Bridge Grant: $1,261,459 • Organizing Summer School (Awaiting Notification of Grant Award) • Increasing Intentionality of Child-Centered Teaching and Learning • Developmentally Appropriate Practices • Play-Based Learning • Assessment through Authentic Observation

  14. 2019-2020 School Year Sites/Classrooms

  15. 2019-2020 Head Start Federal Grant Budget Personnel • Salaries $ 2,842,775 • Benefits $ 2,227,905 Supplies $ 63,700 • Administration and Classroom Contractual $ 415,674 • Mental Health • Transportation Contract • Head Start Program Requirements Other     $26,000 • Local travel • Parent/Family Engagement • Field Trips • Equipment Training and Technical Assistance Budget     $58,310 • Professional Development Head Start Programmatic Requirements

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