Know Your Workplace
(CCI and Head Start)
Head Start
Performance Standards
Numbers, Numbers, Numbers!
Maine State Licensing
A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S
100

This is the symbol for Head Start.

What is building blocks?

100

Center-based and family childcare programs must implement developmentally appropriate research-based early childhood curricula. This is ours.

What is the Creative Curriculum 3(CC3)?

100

Address? Oh, ours is:

____ High Street, South Paris, ME 04281

What is 340?

100

Children must be checked at least every two hours for this.

What is a soiled or wet diaper and clothing?
100

I.T.E.R.S.

What is Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale?

200

This is the month we celebrate Head Start Awareness.

What is October?

200

"a program must complete or obtain a current developmental screening to identify concerns regarding a child's developmental, behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive and emotional skills"  This is what we use.

What are the Brigance and ASQ-SE?

200

The number of days we have to complete the screenings of a newly enrolled child.

What is 45?

200

This must be available to children at all times throughout the day.

What is water?

200

A.S.Q - S.E.

What is Ages and Stages Questionaire - Social-Emotional

300

This is who sets the budget for Head Start nationwide.

Congress

300

A program must establish and maintain this, which is responsible for the direction of the Head Start program at the agency level. It is comprised of staff, community reps, and parents or guardians of currently enrolled children.

What is Policy Council?

300

This is the amount of time you need to wait after liberally applying sunscreen before being exposed to the sun.  

What is 15 minutes?

300

Brr it's cold in here, it better be at least this warm in our classrooms for children to be present

What is 65°?

300

I.D.E.A.

What is The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

400

Community Concepts has not one, but two "Main" offices.  They are located in these two places.

What are South Paris and Lewiston.

400

A program must ensure at least this percent of its total funded enrollment is filled by children eligible for services under IDEA.

What is 10%?

400

If you need more daily attendance sheets, this is the number you type in on Child Plus.

What is 2316?

400

Children 12 months of age and older must have a minimum of 60 minutes of this when attending for 4 hours or more.

What is outside time?

400

E.C.L.K.C

What is Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center?

500

Both Head Start and Community Concepts were started during this year.

What is 1965?

500

If a program's monthly average daily attendance rate falls below this percent, the program must analyze the causes of absenteeism to identify any systematic issues that contribute to the program's absentee rate.

What is 85%

500

Head Start began much earlier, but it wasn't until this year that Early Head Start began.

What is 1995

500

Once they've started drinking it, an infant has this long before the formula or breast milk must be discarded.

What is an hour?

500

E.R.S.E.A

What is Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance?