The National Head Start Blog provides information about Head Start, a government program that helps low-income children and families. It has served over 32 million children since 1965. The blog is a resource for educators, providing trustworthy information on Head Start and advocacy for early childhood education. It discusses current topics and the impact Head Start has had in providing equal opportunities and a high-quality education to children from all backgrounds.

1. National Head Start Blog
Julie Lenzen

2. Blog Information
 Name: National Head Start Blog
 Website: https://www.nhsa.org/blog
 Blogger/s: Multiple people
 Blog is woven into the National Head Start Association website.

3. The What?
 Head Start is a government led initiative to help low income children and their families by
providing a quality whole child education, and family services.
 Since being founded in 1965, Head Start has served 32 million children and their families.

4. So What?
 Head Start was an extremely big deal when it originated. It has been a controversial program,
and is considered the “nations laboratory of early childhood.”
 Head Start represents and honors children of many different cultures and ethnicities. The
fundamental beliefs of the program is that ALL children deserve a equal opportunity, high quality
education for ALL children in the US from ALL walks of life.

5. What Can the Blog Do For You?
 This program will affect you as a future educator. You will have children in your class that will have
been in Head Start. This blog & website can provide you trustworthy information, and will be a
great resource for you in the future.
 The blog can provide you information about the importance of ECE and ways to advocate for it,
ideas about how to help represent all cultures and ethnicity in your classroom in a inclusive
respectful way.
 Current Topics on the blog:
 Fostering the Make Over Movement in Early Childhood Education
 Vote for our Children
 Making Early Childhood Research Accessible

6. Questions To the Blogger
 In your opinion what do you believe the long term affects of Head Start will be/ look like for our
nation in 30 years?
 What do you believe has been the biggest accomplishment for Head Start thus far?
 What do you believe the future of Head Start will look like?

7. Technology: Slide Share
 Slide Share is a presentation sharing website that allows you to access other peoples
presentations and post your own, sharing ideas to use a tool to get and give information.
 Slide Share is part of the Linkedin, which is a ”business like” social networking sight.
 What I like most is you are able to create presentations in your favorite format, and then upload
them to the site making them easy to access, and share.