This document outlines a presentation about the secrets to Head Start success. It discusses key aspects like performance standards, parent participation, and team building. The presentation covers the origins and milestones of Head Start, its governance structure and roles, and objectives like promoting school readiness. It emphasizes engaging parents, empowering families, and the importance of a collaborative team approach to help children realize their potential.

1. The Secrets to Head Start Success
Presented by Melvin J. Gravely
CEO,
The Gravely Group

2. The Secrets to Head Start Success
Performance Standards
Parent Participation
Team Building

3.  Milestones
 Performance Standards
 Parents Participation
 Teams
Agenda

4.  Participants w/understand the origins of Head Start
Program Governance
 Participants w/understand the composition of the
governance structure
 Participants w/gain knowledge of program
governance tools
 Participants w/understand the roles & responsibilities
as outlined in the 2007 Head Start Act and how the
three governance entities work collaboratively.
Learning Objectives

5. Head Start Mission
To promote school readiness by
enhancing the social and cognitive
development of children through
education, health, nutrition, social
and other services for children
and families.

6. Head Start Program Fact Sheet Fiscal Year 2010

7.  1964: Lyndon B. Johnson signed the
Economic Opportunity Act, (War on Poverty)
 1965-1966: Project Head Start launched a
8 week summer program
 1972: 10% budget set aside to serve children
with disabilities
Head Start Milestones

8.  1977 Bilingual and bicultural programs
initiated in 21 states
 1995 First Early Head Start program grants
distributed
 1998 Head Start reauthorized to expand to full
day and full year services
Head Start Milestones

9. Head Start is the only federally funded
program that empowers parents with
rights, roles & responsibilities

11. Program
Governance
Fiscal
Management
ERSEA
Child and
Family
Outcomes
Self-
Assessme
nt
Human
Resource
s
Child and
Family
Outcomes
Communication
Record-
keeping &
Reporting
Facilities,
Materials &
Equipment
Planning
Ongoing
Monitoring

12.  To bring best practices into classrooms
 To promote continuous improvement & innovation
at ground level
 To provide training to teachers & directors
 To help teachers & directors improve classroom
instruction
 To provide peer-to-peer technical assistance
Performance Standards

13. Helping all children realize their dreams and
potential will help us build tomorrow's
workforce, strengthen our economy & fulfill
America's promise.
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, September 22 2010

14. Classroom activities with increased focus
on foundational literacy,
math and science

15. Promoting healthy social, emotional
and physical development

17.  Now it’s your turn
 Take out a blank sheet of paper & write down a
concise headline for your billboard & draft an image
 Also write any other brief message you’d like to add,
possibly to get people who are driving by to take a
desired action
 Here is a recap of the information you’ll need to
capture:
Making a Billboard

18. Let's hear from you!

20. Head Start Raises Hope

21.  Head Start is a comprehensive network of skilled
professionals, working as a team to provide families with the
guidance and support they need to restore hope.
 Parents need caring people to help them get their bearings,
understand their situation, and find strength within to carry
on.
 Parents need the support of people committed to making a
difference and seeing things thru regardless of the
circumstances.

22.  No one wants to be a bad parent
 Children need family
 Our work saves lives
 Judgment and blame keep families from getting back
to a good place
 Your work unites parents into a network of strength
and healing
Head Start Believes…

23. -Parents and families are empowered
to participate in the classroom as
volunteers, and observers.
-Parents and families are empowered
with the ability to receive home visits

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Can educators do this work alone?
Everyone wants

25. "Having parents
become captivated by
their own children,
supportive of their
education, and
irrationally committed to
the idea that their
children mattered."
Urie Bronfenbrenner, "Father of Head Start program"
and Human Ecologist

26. How can parents be empowered by
YOUR Head Start program?

27. Unlocking the Secrets to
Head Start Success

30. Team Building Exercise
Pencils down.
Remember the exact placement of
letters in the following triangle.

31. F
L Q P
R W N I T
A V M B X S D
Y C O J Z E V H K

32. Team Building Exercise
Now recreate the triangle putting letters in their
correct placement.

33. Team Building Exercise
Here is the triangle, how did you do?
Tally your results by counting letters ONLY if
they are in the correct location in the triangle.
 F
 L Q P
 R W N I T
 A V M B X S D
 Y C O J Z E V H K

34. Team Building Exercise
Now compare your results with those at your
table.
First, add together your individual scores and
divide by number of people for an average
score.

35. Tally a collective group score by counting
each correct letter -- the group gets 1
(one) point for every letter anyone in the
group gets in the correct position.
There are no multiple points for multiple
people in the group getting the same letter
and placement correct.
Then...

36. Team Building Exercise
Let's try it again...
Make a plan with those at your table for
improving the group's score.

37. Team Building Exercise

38. L
W J E
U P N S K
I X A F C M Z
R B T O Q Y D G U

39. Team Building Exercise
Carry out your table's plan...

40. Team Building Exercise
Check the table's results. How did the team do?
L
 W J E
 U P N S K
 I X A F C M Z
 R B T O Q Y D G U

41. Team Building Exercise
Final results?
How did your plan work?
What would you do different if we had
another round?
How does this relate to your ongoing
work at Head Start?

43. GROUP VS TEAM
Group - a collection of individuals together in a unit
to accomplish individual tasks
Team - a group with a common purpose,
committed to working together interdependently,
and who are accountable as a unit within an
organization

44. TEAM APPROACH
A distinctive style of work aimed at harnessing
the collective talents and energy of people

45. STORMING
PERFORMING
FORMING
NORMING

46. Team Elements
Teams learn and demonstrate behaviors
Your team will not normally form on its own
Some point in time the ownership of the team
needs to shift to the other members as a whole.

48.  Responsibilities are shared
 Others provide support
 New and fresh ideas from other team
members
 Variety of skills and backgrounds
 Provision of relief when one member is
overloaded
 Sense of accomplishment
ADVANTAGE
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49.  Produce outstanding results and succeed
despite difficulties
 Members believe they are responsible for the
output of their team and act to clear difficulties
standing in their way
HALLMARKS

50. The Secrets to Head Start Success are
unlocked for you!

51. The Secrets to Head Start Success
Performance Standards
Parent Participation
Team Building

52. Let's hear from you!
Questions, Comments, Feedback

53. Contact Me
Melvin J. Gravely
The Gravely Group
(614) 901-3369
www.gravelygroup.com