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If it doesn’t work, it’s not a failure; it’s just data. This course will introduce you to different types of data and their roles in decision-making in an organization.

The purpose of this course is to support leadership in analyzing and interpreting data from Head Start programs to inform and improve practice, as well as implement best practices for safeguarding portable devices and removable media to prevent data breaches and unauthorized access and Identify and protect confidential information within the workplace, including personal, operational, and client data.

Course Information:

• Start Date: On-Demand
• Course Level: Beginner
• Target Audience: Leadership and Management, Program Operations, & Support Services
• Requirements/Prerequisites: n/a
• Course Meeting Times: n/a
• Completion Timeline/Duration: 30 days

Topics:

• Data-Driven Decision Making
• What Is Confidential Data?
• Portable Devices and Removable Media Security
• Using Physical Security to Keep Facilities and Assets Safe

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze and interpret data from Head Start programs to inform and improve practice.
• Implement best practices for safeguarding portable devices and removable media to prevent data breaches and unauthorized access.
• Identify and protect confidential information within the workplace, including personal, operational, and client data.

Head Start Alignment:

This course supports programs in meeting Head Start Program Performance Standard 1302.102(c) Program goals, continuous improvement, and reporting: Using data for continuous improvement, which states that, “A program must implement a process for using data to identify program strengths and needs, develop and implement plans that address program needs, and continually evaluate compliance with program performance standards and progress towards achieving program goals described in paragraph (a) of this section.”

Course Author

Zuly Vazquez

Zuly Vazquez is the senior manager of Early Head Start Professional Development. She has worked with Head Start and Early Head Start programs for over a decade, specializing in training, mentoring, coaching, facilitation, curriculum implementation, and management. She worked for several years in the classroom, providing high-quality education to children from different cultures, traditions, and ethnicities. She is a former Head Start parent and has vast experience supporting and providing technical assistance to teachers, family child care providers, education specialists, and families in large programs in Florida and Georgia. Over her career, she designed a supplemental Christian early childhood curriculum, bilingual online lessons, and classroom observation tools and has facilitated early childhood education courses in English and Spanish at the college level. As an active early childhood advocate, she is part of the advisory committee of her local NAEYC affiliate, the Family Child Care Home Alliance of Georgia, and Latinas United for the Children of America.