Q&A
CANTRANSPORTATION PLAY AVITAL ROLE IN HELPING HEAD START AGENCIES ACHIEVE ITS GOALS? “When we talk about quality and we talk about Head Start being a community-based
program, you have to figure out how to implement your program so that you’re serving the needs of the families. We know that in rural programs, in some tribal programs, in migrant and seasonal Head Start programs, and even in some Head Start and early Head Start programs that operate in suburban areas, we’re having to take a look at how trans- portation plays into making sure that those children are getting to the center. We don’t want the fact that transportation doesn’t exist or that a grantee maybe is not providing
transportation to get in the way of kids getting to the center. Tose are the kind of things we’re really taking a close look at, to figure out how do we work with our programs to ensure that families that may not have a car or the bus schedule doesn’t quite fit into your schedule, how do you get those kids to the center, anyway?”
HOW CAN HEAD START UTILIZE ONBOARD LEARNING AND BOOK CLUBS? “Tose are some of the things that we’re
talking about in terms of figuring out how do we expand learning opportunities for kids wherever they are when they are in Head Start. We’re not quite there yet, but I think that with the national centers that we have coming online in the next two years, that’s going to be an opportunity for us to look at best practices that haven’t been in normal place of what we do and try to figure out how to model and expand on those.”
HOW CAN HEAD START BETTER COLLABORATE WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS ONTHESE PROGRAMS, ANDVICEVERSA? “From our end we would definitely see
a positive piece to that. One of the things we’re doing with the road map and this initiative on quality is that we’re really saying to our Head Start grantees we you need to work with your local public schools. One, we need to make sure that children and families are being transi- tioned into the public schools in a way that continues to support that child’s learning and that parent’s advocacy of their child. Two, if there are models and best practices that we can learn from we need to start to do that. Finally, also mak- ing sure that kids are being provided the seamless services they deserve.”
DO SCHOOL BUS LEARNING ACTIVITIES HAVE A PLACE IN THE HEAD START PERFORMANCE STANDARDS? “No program is prohibited from doing
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that. If programs can find a way to do it while keeping kids safe on the bus route, we would absolutely encourage that because
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