Head Start

Training and Consulting

Head Start Training and Consulting Services

Head Start programs prepare America’s most vulnerable young children to succeed in school and in life beyond school.

New Research - New Head Start Initiatives - New Challenges. Head Start is a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Keeping up to date and keeping your staff informed and trained is critical as they provide care for and teach future generations!

Head Start Training

Why is This Important to Your Program?

Training of teachers in staff is essential in Head Start to ensure that the environment, activities and plans lay a foundation for success and well-being. Investing in training is required by state and federal standards and is crucial for ensuring that all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Staff come to their roles with various degrees of expertise, knowledge and experience, therefore data on performance and child outcomes must be considered as training is planned and implemented. CLASS (Classroom Assessment Scoring Tool) training is critical to reach and sustain scores that indicate a quality classroom environment and meet standards.

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Head Start Training

What A&D Coaching and Consulting can do for you...

Consult - we can help you explore data, determine what is important and create goals that are realistic and manageable.

Plan - we can help you write plans based on those goals within all systems of your program: education, teacher-child interactions, coaching, professional development, parent engagement, management, health and wellness.. and others.

Train - We can provide much of the training needed to help you meet your professional development and quality improvement goals.

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Trainings can include Head Start Initiatives that address CLASS, IMIL and PITC

A&D consultants are experienced in supporting the planning and training of professional development in Head Start programs. We are familiar with the standards that mandate specific training and help you look at your data to plan quality and relevant professional development for your program and staff.

Trainings specific to Head Start

Teacher-Child Interactions and Teaching Strategies

Addresses specific Dimensions and Indicators of CLASS* where designated

The WHAT’s and WHY’s of Good Questioning (IS/CD
Feedback Loop Rollercoaster (IS/QF)
Talk is Cheap (IS/LM)
Engagement = Focus (CO/ILF)
Manage the fun… Manage the Classroom (CO/BM)
Positivity and Personal Power (ES)
Piglets, Tiggers and Poohs- Oh MY! Being sensitive to personalities and temperaments! (ES/TS/RSP)

Coaching the Coaches: based on Practice-Based Coaching Principles

Challenging Behaviors & Classroom Management

Behavior Program Planning: the team approach to individualized behavior management
Why Won’t They Behave?? The meaning of behavior and what to do with it
The Blueprint for Breathing and Behavior: Teaching self-regulation and proactive social skills to improve behavior.
Consultant Collaboration: Working with your Mental Health staff and consultant do build Wellness and Behavior Plans that fit your program.

Head Start Training

Individualizing for Learning

7 Degrees of Systems
Strategies for Success
Sustain the structure

ELOF/Child Development Training (B-3 and 3-5 Training Available)

Line it all up! Alignment of assessments, lesson plans and ELOF
Lesson Plan Love

Training can be requested on any area of development and will include an overview of that area of development as well as ideas and activities that can be included in environment approaches and lesson planning:

Language and Literacy, including Phonemic Awareness & Emergent Literacy Early signs of learning differences
Cognitive Skills including Math and Science Training (STEM)
Social Skills; problem-solving and friendship skills
Emotional Skills: Emotional Literacy, teaching Proactive Emotional Skills that lead to resilience
Physical Development *IMIL; I’m Moving, I’m Learning (*certified trainer)
Approaches to Learning; How to help children with Executive Function Skills (Organization, Self-Regulation, Attention and Memory)
Play Nice: Teaching Proactive Behavior Solutions to Children
Ask the Question! How inquiry-based learning can lead to critical thinking and better understanding!

Management and Leadership

ABC’s of Head Start Leadership and Manager Roles
Professional Development 101: Creating Professional Development Plans that fit your program
Integrate Head Start Initiatives into your Program
 PITC: Program for Infant and Toddler Caregiving
 IMIL: I’m Moving, I’m Learning
 PBC: Practice-Based Coaching-goal-setting and systems

CLASS: Classroom Assessment Scoring System -plans for training, coaching, and assessment