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This course is designed for Head Start programs to expand and improve your staff’s leadership of whole community. It will not only expand learners’ understanding of whole community practices, it will allow them to develop a portfolio of practical application tools they can use, share, and refer back to at any time.

The perfect first step in your program’s DEI journey, Whole Community Services Basics is an ideal pre-service experience for all staff to ensure everyone is using similar language and coming to the work with consistent sensitivities and understanding. In just a few hours, your staff will experience the positive energy Dr. Kimberly Johnson brings to a very challenging topic.

Course Information:

• Start Date: Available on-demand
• Course Level: Beginner
• Target Audience: Instruction and Effective Practice, Leadership and Management, Parents and Families, Program Operations, Support Services
• Requirements/Prerequisites: None
• Course Meeting Times: None
• Completion Timeline/Duration: Self-Paced

Topics:

• Getting to Know the People Around You
• Respecting the Opinions of Others
• Overcoming Our Blindspots
• Willingness To Be Uncomfortable
• Teach
• Helping Others Thrive

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the various elements included in serving a whole community.
• Enhance your interactions with others while learning to appreciate differences by mitigating assumptions, biases, and stereotypes.
• Engage in recognizing workplace biases and work to enhance workplace, family, and community.

Head Start Alignment:

This course supports programs in meeting 1302.101 Management Systems requirements of the Head Start Program Performance Standards by promoting effective management, professional development, comprehensive services, and equitable access for children and families from diverse backgrounds.

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Course Author

Dr. Kimberly Johnson

Dr. Kimberly Johnson is a creative thinker and has a passion for teaching and helping others. She serves as a contracted course facilitator at Harvard University, has taught doctoral classes at Northeastern University, and currently teaches at Clemson University and Clinton College.

As a Head Start alumna, she knows first-hand the life-changing power of Head Start. “I am living proof that Head Start works, but our job is not done–not by any means. In fact, the journey has truly just begun,” she said. “We have much work to do to ensure that our families, teachers and most of all our children can see beyond the broken glass or sirens or even the deficit thinkers that clog their minds on a regular basis. We have the obligation to make sure our children gain the levels of love and preparedness that Head Start represents.”

Dr. Kim earned her doctorate in Curriculum, Teaching, and Leadership from Northeastern University and her master’s from Clemson University in Youth Development and Leadership as well as Early Childhood Education and Communications degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill. Kimberly completed her postdoctoral work in the Advanced Leadership Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and recently completed a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion at Cornell University.