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Head Start / Ear
Preparing for
Head Start provides a comprehensive program that promotes school readiness and family engagement to ensure the healthy development of children and their families. Specific goals are set for both of these areas and each year, Head Start parents rate their child’s readiness for Kindergarten on a scale from 1 to 5. CCRC scored 4.35 for the 2010-11 school year.
School Readiness
The goal of Head Start’s school readiness component is to increase the knowledge of parents and staff about child development and transitions to new learning environments to ensure children are ready for school and sustain learning gains.
Using the Head Start framework, the following five domains are linked with the Desired Results Developmental Profile – Preschool (DRDP-PS, 2010) to monitor the child’s growth. Each of the domains will have a specific goal to accomplish.
1. Cognition and General Knowledge – Children demonstrate and understand one-to-one correspondence up to ten.
2. Physical Development and Health – Children manipulate small objects using precise hand-eye coordination; show the ability to recognize hand washing at appropriate times throughout the day.
3. Language and Literacy – Children demonstrate the ability to play with letter sounds through phonetics and play independently with sounds and rhymes; demonstrate comprehension of one and two step directions through instructional and social setting in the daily routine.
4. Approaches to Learning – Children will use more descriptive language in predicting and explaining.
5. Social and Emotional Development – Children will self-regulate their emotions, attention, impulses and behavior.
Family Engagement
Family engagement empowers parents to be advocates for excellence in their children’s healthy development and learning. CCRC accomplishes the following goals through the implementation of evidence-based programs.
1. Increase family literacy to promote families as life long educators.
2. Increase parent education advocacy and educate parents in early identification of developmental delays in children.
3. Educate and familiarize parents with the services provided by Education, Health, Nutrition, Disabilities, Mental Health, Family Services and Parent Involvement systems.
4. Increase awareness and educate parents on child abuse to reduce the number of child abuse incidences.