Head Start New Employee Portal
Designed specifically for new Head Start program staff, these resources can help you learn your role with clarity and confidence. Find the materials you need to be successful in your first year and beyond!
Workforce Learning and Development
Staff learning and development are key to meeting a program’s objectives.
These resources offer practical strategies Head Start and child care programs can use to enhance the competencies — defined as the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) — of its employees.
Individualized Professional Development Plans to Support Career Pathways
Success in any career requires the continued development of skills and knowledge. Explore tools and resources to help supervisors develop effective plans with staff.
Head Start Coaching Companion
Explore and use this video-sharing and coaching-feedback application. It helps coaches and coachees and peer-coaching teams work together, even between coach visits or from a distance.
1302.92 Training and professional development.
Read the standards for using a systematic approach to training and professional development that is designed to assist staff in acquiring or increasing the knowledge and skills needed to provide Head Start services.
Professional Development
Excellence in early childhood education programs is built on a workforce that promotes continuous program improvement.
Adult Learning Principles
This resource lists key adult learning principles as outlined by Malcom Knowles in his "Theory of Adult Learning".
Head Start Employees: Reduce Your Monthly Student Loan Payment
This guide provides information about two federal programs that could help make student loans easier to pay back: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Income-driven Repayment (IDR).