Topic: Research

Apprenticeship Kick-Start Guide

Curated Resources to Support Key Components Needed for Innovative, Successful Responses to the Early Learning Staffing Crisis

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Connecting Families Facing Food Insecurity to Head Start

The recent SNAP rule change is strengthening both Head Start’s outreach to families facing food insecurity and state and local partnerships.

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NAACFRC is Changing the African American Family Narrative

National African American Child and Family Research Center (NAACFR) focuses exclusively on African American children and families.

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Data Design Initiative

The Data Design Initiative improves capacity for using data and evidence to advance the wellbeing of Head Start children and families.

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Data Literacy Credential

Educate managers and directors in data literacy; the ability to communicate about the use of data; and basic storytelling with data skills.

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Data Essentials

Data Essentials explores how data is used in practice in today’s Head Start world and answers two questions: “How can data be used to make things better?” and “How can I be sure that the data I collect helps children and families?”

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Data Basics

This course explores the role of data in Head Start and answers two questions: “Why do people care so much about data?” and “What does this have to do with me?”

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Policy Brief: Head Start Technology Gap

Invest in Head Start Now… or Spend Later

Report: Treating Our Nation’s Opioid Epidemic

Action Research

Action research is a method used by teachers to solve issues in the classroom. Frame a question, carry out an intervention, and report the results.

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Public Transit Accessibility (and Burden) of Head Start Centers

From the base of the Grand Canyon, to the frontier of Alaska, Head Start programs nationwide serve nearly a million of our nation’s most vulnerable children and families each year. But how accessible are Head Start centers? In partnership with the Civic Mapping Initiative, NHSA found that only 40% of Head Start locations are within…

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