EHS
What is staff/child ratio?
Child arrives at 9:15 am. Child is picked up at 3:15 pm.
What is late arrival? What is late drop-off?
Allowed to be used while sleeping, provided by parent with name written on it, inspected for tears & cracks, rinsed with hot water before use.
What is Pacifier policy?
Approaches to Learning, Language/Literacy, Cognitive, Physical, and Social Emotional
What are School Readiness Domains?
Staff are to call their supervisor after 6am but before 6:45am to to announce not being able to work for the day.
What is the Call-In policy?
Meeting held monthly for all enrolled parents.
What is Parent Committee?
Home visitor and FSA complete action steps for a goal chosen by parent.
What is a Family Partnership Agreement?
Setting up the environment, positioning staff, scan & count, listen, anticipate children's behaviors, and engage & redirect.
What are the six strategies to active supervision?
Completed within 45 days of enrollment and every October, February, and June.
What are Ages & Stages Screenings?
Pants free from holes, rips, tears. Leggings only worn if shirt covers bottom. Hats prohibited. Warm up outfits/sweat suits are not prohibited
An organization's professionalism is judged by what people see.
What is the Personal Appearance policy?
Completed once a week in child's home for 90 minutes
What is a home-based home visit?
Child falls below 85% in attendance for 3 months.
What is considered chronic attendance?
Focused attention and intentional observation of children at all times by educators.
What is Active Implementation?
Requires sharing goals, classroom responsibilities, and resources in order to promote positive outcomes for all children while setting aside individual differences.
What is Co-teaching?
2 weeks before, check to ensure no one else is out at the center.
1 week before, supervisor may require a doctor's note
What is sick/vacation policy?
Partner with families to enhance their child’s development and support the family’s growth to self-sufficiency.
What is the Children's Coalition Early Head Start mission?
CCNELA employee witnesses or suspects another employee has physically, emotionally, or verbally hurt a child. Or has neglected to provide required care for a child.
What is Child Abuse & Neglect?
The expectation to take care of materials and equipment and to teach children to do so as well. Spaces are to be arranged in an orderly fashion when staff leave for the day.
What is Maintenance of Equipment and Materials Policy?
Planning for adaptations to the classroom, communicating with parents often, completing a Child Behavior Checklist, and At Home Child Behavior Questionnaire.
How staff respond to behaviors that challenge them?
Recognize and acknowledge the professional nature of the relationship with parents. Clear in establishing boundaries with families that distinguish between being friendly verses being friends. includes but not limited to sharing personal cell phone/social media contact information with current EHS parent/guardian.
What is staff- parent/family policy?
Promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women; enhance the development of very young children (birth to 3); and promote healthy family functioning.
What is the purpose of EHS?
Staff enters case note for missed day(s), late arrival, late pick up.
What is attendance log?
In the event that a child becomes ill while at the center, the child’s teacher will immediately exclude the child from center activities. With the permission of the Program Director and Health Services Coordinator, teachers will then contact the child’s parent requesting that the child be picked-up.
What is exclusion policy?
Eye level, providing art materials for a child to explore and encouraging them to use the materials in a way that they choose based on their personal likes/interests, developmental stage, and imagination
Product art such as; commercial displays, dittos, coloring book pages, teacher or identical group produced art projects are inappropriate for use in CCNELA EHS (center-based or home-based).
What is Classroom Display policy?
-Conduct that interferes with operation of the program ▪ Unsatisfactory Job Performance work site –Absenteeism or tardiness ▪ Sleeping during work periods ▪ Insubordination or refusal to comply with work orders or reasonable requests or instructions ▪ Conduct that violates common decency or morality ▪ Using or divulging, without permission, any confidential information acquired through employment with this the Company ▪
What is Employee Conduct?