Program: New Resource for Programs – The Head Start Data Lake Collaborative

Description: For the past year, NHSA has been piloting an early childhood data lake, a central repository that collects, stores, and analyzes data from Head Start programs in ways that help programs learn from each other. From the practitioner perspective, the data lake will provide dashboards that are useful to improve practice on a day-to-day basis. The lake will also contain aggregated national dashboards to drive quality improvement at a national level.

Join us to learn what it takes to participate, the value that the data lake can bring to your program, and the on-going leadership by participating programs. We also look forward to sharing how the data lake was developed and what its long-term future looks like.

Learning Objective: Learn about the Head Start Data Lake, its value to programs, and how to join!

The Head Start Data Lake Collaborative Presenter:

Victoria Jones, is NHSA’s senior director of data. Victoria has prior experience in early childhood education from her five years working at Sesame Street in New York City. Victoria earned her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College at Columbia University and received her master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.