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 “As the national direction for Head Start continues to change and grow, all of Head Start’s leaders must change and grow in response.”

Thank you to the presenters and participants who made the 2011 Region V Head Start Conference a success!

 

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Tuesday, November 1

· What are Executive Functions and What do They Have to do with Dual Language Learners?

· Internal Controls for the Understaffed Finance Department

· Engaging Parents: An Investment that Pays

· Ten Coaching Strategies that Work for Improving Classroom Quality

· The Policy Committee’s Role in Head Start (Spanish)

· Parents and Teachers as Partners in Mapping Child Progress

· Systems + Outcomes = School Readiness

· Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs Serving Children Birth through Five Years

· Effective Transitions to Enhance Kindergarten Readiness

· Monitoring and Accountability

· How to Hire an Auditor

· Proven Oral Health Strategies for Your Program

· From Friends to Followers: Using Social Networks

· Conscious Organizations through Conscious Discipline

· Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework and Beginning a Self-Assessment

 

Wednesday, November 2

· Managing Talent in a Changing Environment

· Nurturing Yourself While Taking Care of Young Children

· The Realities of the New Head Start

· Using Non-Federal Share to Achieve Program Objectives

· Skill Building: Strategies and Techniques to Improve Outcomes

· Focus on Child Assessment

· On the Road to School Readiness

· How to Increase the Instructional Value of Your Classroom

· Supporting Executive Functions in Young Children

· Data Driven Excellence

· Building Professionals the SMART Way

· Advocacy 101/Building Your Success Story

· Growing Up WILD! Teaching through Nature

· Ideas and Resources for Helping Parents Support Young Children’s Social Emotional Development

 

Thursday, November 3

Sam Meisels Keynote, “Why the Early Years of Life Matter”

· Creating a Competency Based Model for Meeting Professional Development Requirements of the Head Start Act

· What’s New at NHSA?

· Creating a Culture of Breastfeeding in your Program

· Head Start Games: Fun with the Performance Standards

· Understanding Emotional Intelligence: An Application for the Head Start Workplace

· Promoting Self-Sufficiency Initiative

· Practical Approaches to Cost Allocation

· State Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

· The Health Care Institute—Research to Practice

 

This list includes handouts all provided to us by presenters for posting. If we receive additional materials they will be added to this list.

Click here to view conference program.

                 

 

 

 

Sheraton Chicago Hotel

Conference Convener:

 

The Ohio Head Start Association, Inc.
144 Westpark Rd.
Dayton, Ohio 45459
Phone: (937)435-1113
Fax: (937) 435-5411

To contact us:

 

regionv@ohsai.org

 

 

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