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Leveraging A.I. – New Series!
A.I. tools can be a time-saving partner: streamlining documentation, strengthening communication, understanding program data, and improvement. Early Intel produces custom reports using A.I. tools, and also provides training and coaching to implement A.I. practices.
Our fall series, “Smarter Tools for Head Start,” helps program managers integrate new efficiencies and insights into their work. This eight-session series covers key program areas with practical guidance and coaching to support implementation. Registrants may select the full series or particular sessions of interest.
Data Practices Review
Program data can be an enormous resource, creating efficiencies and helping managers to prioritize important issues. But how do you know if your team’s practices are really effective?
In our Data Practices Review, expert advisers conduct diagnostic interviews to help assess the effectiveness, quality, and compliance of data practices across service areas. We deliver a report identifying gaps and actionable, prioritized steps for improvement. This review is an affordable way to get a third party perspective on your information systems, and to identify strategies for strengthening your management.
Professional Learning Community
Data tools are a good first step, but your team also needs guides to incorporate these resources into their regular work process. We bring friendly experts to a community of supportive program leaders. It’s what OHS refers to as “moving from a culture of compliance to one of “data, improvement and outcomes.”
The Q.I. Network supports early childhood leaders on the improvement journey. Together, directors and managers share their data insights, their improvement work and they collaborate on solutions. The Network is composed of high performing programs across the country that are leading the way for innovation in early childhood.
Federal Review Prep
Is your team ready for your next federal review? The Head Start Performance Standards increased expectations in 2016 (see 1302.102(c)) reviewers now ask programs to identify their strategies for continuous quality improvement and to identify their promising practices.
While this can be challenging, it’s also a moment to develop leaders by leveraging data to strengthen services. Early Intel trainers and coaches love working with program directors and managers to meet this higher standard.
Analytic Reports for Greater Insight
You work hard to collect data. But once it’s collected, how does it get used? Are you benefitting from new insights or is data languishing in silos?
At Early Intel, our reports enable early childhood leaders to win the day, by:
- Identifying and predicting children and families at risk
- Understanding the causes of lower teacher performance
- Creating brilliant presentations for their board and policy council
- Incorporating quality improvement processes and methods
- Building a culture of data use and performance
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Early Insights
How Head Start Programs Use Data Coaches
As Head Start programs seek to strengthen their data use, they are beginning to use a new kind of
Member Profile: Q&A with YMCA of the East Bay about Teacher Wellness and Retention
Head Start leaders from YMCA of the East Bay share how they’re using CQI strategies to improve teacher wellness
Key Steps in Preparing for Your FA2 Visit
FA2 visits provide a chance to focus your team on federal expectations, think more deeply about data, reflect on
Attendance vs. Chronic Absence in Head Start: Understanding the Difference
Chronic absence in PreK predicts a child’s failure to read at grade level.