Fiscal Year 2025 Monitoring Process for Head Start and Early Head Start Recipients
This IM outlines the OHS monitoring process for fiscal year 2025 and describes the types of Head Start monitoring reviews that recipients may experience.
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Ongoing Monitoring
Find resources on how to measure program performance, identify areas of concern, make immediate corrections, and generate reports. Head Star programs use data from ongoing monitoring to help inform their annual self-assessment. Ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement together make up one of the 12 program management systems of the Management Systems Wheel.
Program Interviews: Use of Data
Watch this video montage of Head Start leaders sharing their excitement about how they have used data to inform decision making in their programs.
Data in Head Start Programs
Data in Head Start Programs is a series of interactive online learning modules that includes a mixture of practical scenarios, real-life examples from the field, and tools and templates.
Creating a Culture That Embraces Data
This interactive module is designed to help Head Start programs create an organizational culture that embraces the use of data to drive decisions.
Voices from the Field
Watch these video clips to see how data analysis and the planning cycle comes to life in Head Start programs.
Voices from the Field: Dig Into Data - Director
A Head Start/Early Head Start director describes how data lead the program to convert slots from the home-based to center-based option to better serve the needs of its families.
Voices from the Field: Dig Into Data - Executive Director
An executive director talks about how her program used data to inform an important decision about transportation.
Voices from the Field: Share and Share Alike - Education Coordinator and Teacher
An education coordinator and a teacher look at reflect on Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) results.
Voices from the Field: Celebrate Good Times (Come On!) - Home Visitor
A home visitor talks about how use of the program’s data system has enabled the program to better track family engagement, plan for families, and communicate with each other.
Support Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Ongoing monitoring helps Head Start programs better address goals and objectives. It also engages all stakeholders in the program planning process.
