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Curriculum fidelity refers to how closely programs apply curriculum content and processes as designed. It is key to ensuring interactions and activities result in children’s learning and school readiness. Explore this page for information on curriculum fidelity.
Watch this Coaching Corner webinar to increase your understanding of curriculum fidelity. Learn how practice-based coaching can support curriculum fidelity. Identify teaching practices and strategies to support it in the classroom.
Find answers to common questions about ways to implement a curriculum with fidelity. Learn how education managers, coaches, program leaders, and others can support early educators while being responsive to children’s cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Find out how program leaders work with others to identify the most appropriate ways to meet the standards around curriculum fidelity.
To implement a curriculum effectively, staff must understand how to use it responsively, intentionally, and with fidelity. Use this resource to implement curriculum in ways that meet the Head Start Program Performance Standards.
Use this document to understand and explore several aspects of curriculum fidelity in one place. Learn to develop curriculum implementation supports to meet related HSPPS.
The 2018–2019 Teacher Time series covers positive, safe environments, curriculum fidelity, transitions, and ongoing child assessment for teachers and family child care providers.
These Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting infants' and toddlers' development and learning through all the elements of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework.
These Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting preschoolers' development and learning through all the elements of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework.
Programs must implement developmentally appropriate, research-based early childhood curricula that align with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
HeadStart.gov
official website of the Administration for Children and Families
