Posts Tagged ‘program governance’
Benefits of Head Start Program Governance Training
You may ask what the benefits are of familiarizing Staff and Policy Council with the Head Start Act 2007 and the Program Governance. First, the Performance Standards was published in 1974 and revised in 1996 and again in 2015, with the most recent proposed changes scheduled to take effect in school year 2017. The Performance…
Read MoreHead Start Pre-Service Training Opportunities
This is the time of the year that your Early/Head Start program creates its Pre-Service training for the new program year. The Head Start Performance Standards say: (a) Head Start grantees must provide pre-service training and in-service training opportunities to program staff and volunteers to assist them in acquiring or increasing the knowledge and skills…
Read MoreThe Gravely Group Now Offering Our Signature Program Governance Training as a Webinar Series
For the past few months, The Gravely Group has been hard at work redeveloping our Program Governance training into a series of webinars. We are happy to announce that we are now ready to start accepting registrations! Our Program Governance webinar series consists of four separate one-hour modules. Together, they consist of the same content…
Read MoreUsing Onboarding as an Effective Program Management Technique
Onboarding is the process by which new hires get adjusted to the social and performance aspects of their jobs quickly and smoothly, and learn the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to function effectively within an organization. As Head Start makes adjustments with new Grantees and Delegate agencies, Onboarding is the perfect concept to use…
Read MoreWhat are the 10 Head Start Management Systems and Why Do They Matter? (Part 2)
A system is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole. In the second part of our two-part blog, What are the 10 Head Start Management Systems and Why Do They Matter?, we want to connect the quality of the 10 management systems to the quality of Head Start programs as a…
Read MoreWhat are the 10 Head Start Management Systems and Why Do They Matter? (Part 1)
On the National Head Start Association website, there is a somewhat hidden presentation titled “Leading Head Start through a Management Systems Lens.” This presentation, given during the Head Start Manager and Director Academy in June 2012, outlines the 10 key Head Start management systems and aims to 1. Make managers aware of the systems and…
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