What Is Meant by Evidence?
What Is Meant by Evidence?
Family goal setting is essential to the work of Head Start programs. It relies on the information that program staff gather through assessments and ongoing communication, such as the families’ strengths, passions, and challenges. As relationships are built and strong partnerships formed, Head Start staff help families set goals and work together to make progress toward those goals.
Successful goal setting is done in seven steps in the context of the Family Partnership Process. Explore these resources to learn more about goal setting with families.
What Is Meant by Evidence?
Learn ways to update school readiness goals to align with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). Find out how to identify child assessment data to measure progress.
Goals for children’s development and learning provide a structure for framing observations. Find out about sources of goals and school readiness goals.
Explore how to support staff with goal-setting, program decisions, sensitive conversations, and creative partnerships that respond to family strengths and needs.
Read examples of supporting families to develop specific short- and long-term goals for well-being, along with reflective questions to strengthen this practice.
This Management Minute video shares how one Head Start program used the program planning cycle to achieve a key goal.
HeadStart.gov
official website of the Administration for Children and Families