- 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
Self-Assessment
Team Members & Team Leaders
Phases of the Self-Assessment
Data to Examine in This Year’s Self-Assessment
Where applicable multi-year data should be collected for effective analysis of trends.
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.
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 :
- “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