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  • Open minded and strength based
  • Analyze data
  • Engage in dialogue
  • Value the opinions of others
  • Recommend
  • Ensure that parents have a voice at the table to share their unique perspectives
  • Assist team with data review
  • Use a strength-based process, encourage dialogue & curiosity
  • Support team members who may be reluctant to share their thoughts or ideas
  • Build team consensus around recommendations
  • Prepare a summary to shared with the SA team

Data Sets Needed:

- Program Goals and Objectives

- Updated Community Assessment

- Most Recent Self-Assessment

- Program Information Report (PIR)

- Ongoing monitoring reports and results (internal & federal monitoring)

Focus Areas:

(1) Program Governance/Leadership,

(2) Management Systems,

(3) Fiscal,

(4) Environmental Health & Safety,

(5) ERSEA,

(6) School Readiness and CLASS,

(7) Other as needed and/or program specific

Q & A

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Self-Assessment

Team Members & Team Leaders

Phases of the Self-Assessment

Thank you!

Data to Examine in This Year’s Self-Assessment

Where applicable multi-year data should be collected for effective analysis of trends.

Examples

Current Self-Assessment Processes...

PIR

CLASS

ATTENDANCE

What has your program done in the past?

  • How much of your agency resources (time or money) is expended throughout the Self-Assessment process?
  • Pre-planning
  • Training
  • Implementation
  • Information/data roll-up and report writing
  • What are some of the other challenges?
  • Parent participation,
  • Board participation
  • Staff/parent interview coordination
  • Substitute coordination for “frontline” staff participation
  • Team leader vs. interviewee responsibilities
  • Have you been satisfied with the finished product?
  • How is the information used?
  • How has this process informed or impacted organizational goals, program plans, systems of operation, etc.?
  • Would you change this process if you could?
  • How would you change it?
  • What would be the benefit of this change?

Questions to keep in mind...

  • What do we know? What is the data telling us?
  • What don’t we know? Is there a way to find out with review of additional data?
  • What questions does the data pose?
  • What patterns and trends do we notice when we compare year-to-year data?
  • What do we learn from looking at multiple sources of data regarding one topic or issue?

Recommended, New Practices for Self-Assessment

• Monitoring vs. Self-Assessment

• How to prioritize your program priorities and topics for self-assessment?

• How to move to broader goals?

Ice Breaker

A FREE Training Offered by:

Nolo Consulting, LLC

Will your program be successful in 5 years? Why?

HOST PROGRAM:

Alexander County

Board of Education

700 Liledoun Rd,

Taylorsville, NC 28681

Welcome & Introductions

Self-Assessment Training

Review Training Learning Objectives

For Head Start Administrators and Leadership Teams

1. To support a process that is a good fit with the culture of the organization

2. To actively involve staff and assigned stakeholders in the self-assessment process

3. To produce an easily understood report and analysis of results written in plain, jargon-free language.

www.noloconsulting.com

How Is the Self-Assessment Used and what are the Benefits of Self-Assessment?

  • Helps your program determine if it is doing everything it can to benefit the children and families
  • Is a vehicle for innovation
  • 5-year project period- Self-Assessment is the key to your programs being able to report cumulatively in each annual continuation application on progress toward achieving your goals, objectives, and expected outcomes
  • Throughout the year, program leaders and staff track the effectiveness of program operations and progress towards goals through their ongoing monitoring system. During the annual Self-Assessment, staff, you reflect on that same data; any additional data…….
  • look at what is working in the program
  • acknowledging successes and progress
  • consider how to apply the successful practices to other areas of the program
  • compare data across content areas to address higher-level systemic issues by asking pertinent questions—such as :
  • “Where are we at risk?”
  • “How can we better serve children and families in our community?”
  • “How can we improve or streamline operations?”
  • Programs can critically examine the overall direction and impact of their systems and services, via policies and procedure, program plans, and service plans
  • Determine if you are using human and financial resources to achieve goals

Self-Assessment Report

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