Curriculum
These materials help education managers and staff understand and effectively implement the curriculum.
What are curriculum manuals?
This is the poverty guideline amount for a single person household to be eligible for Head Start.
What is $15,060?
President Johnson officially announced plans for Head Start in this year, aiming to reach 500,000 children in a large-scale program.
What is 1965?
This Head Start focus area recognizes and celebrates the contributions of fathers and male caregivers.
What is the role of male caregivers?
This setting delivers Head Start services in a child development center.
What is the center-based setting?
This component ensures that Head Start’s curriculum includes activities with positive effects on child outcomes.
What is research-based curriculum?
For a family with two persons, this income threshold determines Head Start eligibility.
What is $20,440?
This key social movement in the 1960s highlighted poverty and inequalities in education, housing, and social services, influencing the creation of Head Start.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This program component supports parents in advocating for their child’s education and development.
What is engaging parents as lifelong advocates?
This program setting takes place in the home and is often tailored to individual family needs.
What is family child care?
This aspect of curriculum allows Head Start staff to adjust and adapt activities to meet the specific needs of children.
What is flexibility in curriculum?
Head Start considers families with an income at or below this threshold for eligibility, based on family size.
What is the federal poverty guideline?
1991
When did Utah begin offering Head Start?
Head Start invites families to share this to help teachers understand and support their child’s unique needs.
What is family input or insights about their child?
Local Head Start programs adapt to their community needs using these types of services and settings.
What are locally designed services?
This organized sequence helps staff plan developmentally appropriate learning experiences for children.
What is the curriculum scope and sequence?
This is the income guideline for a family of four to qualify for Head Start.
What is $31,200?
This act, passed in 1964, included education and job training as solutions to poverty and led to the creation of Head Start.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
Head Start programs provide this type of support to help parents improve family well-being and reach their goals.
What is parenting support and goal-setting assistance>
This model allows the federal government to fund Head Start programs while giving local leaders flexibility to meet their community’s unique needs.
What is the federal-to-local funding model?
This curriculum aligns with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and addresses all areas of child development.
What is a comprehensive, developmentally appropriate curriculum?
For a household of five, this amount is used to determine if a family qualifies for Head Start based on income.
What is $36,580?
1964
When did Head Start begin?
Head Start encourages this form of family involvement, which helps make sure parents are actively part of the program’s planning and activities.
What is welcoming parent engagement and input?
This Head Start setting involves in-home visits along with group socialization activities.
What is the home-based program?