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HANCOCK COUNTY

EHS/ HS & PRE-K

Raising the Bar Across the Curriculum

Hancock County Early Head Start/ Head Start Mission Statement

The Hancock County Head Start/Early Head Start Program will create and facilitate a healthy, safe and

nurturing environment conducive to learning by bridging families, communities and providing

comprehensive quality services for participating families and eligible children.

Hancock County Early Head Start/ Head Start

Vision Statement

The Hancock County Head Start & Early Head Start programs vision is to educate families and children by providing diverse learning experiences.

Philosophy

Hancock County Head Start Program is based on the premise that all children share certain needs and can benefit from a comprehensive developmental program focusing on promoting school readiness through positive social and education

skills. This program is tailored to fit the needs of the local community and families involved as well as to maximize the unique experiences of each child’s desire to

become lifelong learners. Head Start supports and encourages parental involvement and provides comprehensive services to enhance family development

in the following areas: Health, Mental Health, Disabilities, Literacy, Nutrition, Education, Transportation, Family Support, Community Partnerships, and Parent

Involvement


Our Goal

Early Head Start, Head Start & Pre-K serves infants, toddlers, pregnant women, and preschoolers in Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia. Its goal is to

promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of young children,

and promote healthy family functioning


Our Beliefs:

We believe healthy children are better prepared to learn.

We believe in empowering parents and helping them to become self-sufficient.

We believe in the cultural diversity of the children and families we serve.

We believe in providing comprehensive services to children and families.

We believe in collaborating with local community agencies interested in the well-being

of Head Start & Early Head Start enrolled children and families.

We believe in providing positive leadership to our staff by supporting them in providing

quality services to both children and their families.

Message From the Director: Dr. Angela Primus

Welcome to the Hancock County Early Head Start/ Head Start/Pre-K program. It is an honor to be the Director of such a wonderful school. I hope it has been a rewarding experience meeting your child's teacher, visiting his/her classroom, and attending open house. We appreciate your support as

we begin the school year. Throughout our two preschool sites, preschool staff has worked diligently to create a warm and nurturing learning environment.

Our Early Childhood Programs have qualified educators with an average of 15 years experience as lead teachers and our instructional assistants have a minimum of a Child Development Associates (CDA) with an average of 12 years experience. Together they create a supportive, nurturing

environment while providing best practices and innovative approaches to learning. We also have a trained classroom assistant to support staff and special needs students due to the leadership of the Hancock County School district. Regular volunteers compliment our classrooms and

services. We provide a balanced curriculum with a primary focus on intentional teaching through play, Creative Curriculum. The six developmental domains (social & emotional, cognitive, literacy, physical development, mathematics, and language) are the foundational pillars. A large emphasis on mathematics, science, and literacy are planned around these domains We also pride ourselves on the arts opportunities that our students are

exposed to through our curriculum. Students learn about self-expression, creativity, and self-esteem through music and visual arts.

Our instructional staff is well supported with a top-notch transportation staff. Each bus only transports 3 and 4 year children enrolled in our program. Bus drivers are attentive to students' and families' needs and a bus monitor rides each route to ensure safety as regulated by both the

state and federal government. All students are required to be in a safety harness or belt.

The management team and family service advocates develop strong partnerships with school and community partners. We believe that all stakeholders must be involved to provide a quality program that meets the needs of families and students. We partner with families to help with resources for furthering education, employment opportunities, parenting success, budgeting, housing opportunities; ensuring basic needs are met, etc. Please

contact us at any time if you are interested in assistance or services.

So together, my staff and I are committed to supporting and working with our parents and community. I am grateful and humbled to work with an outstanding staff at Hancock County Early Head Start/ Head Start & Pre-K. We are governed by the dedicated and unswerving Hancock County

Board of Education who understands the community and support of the mission of the program. Our parent Policy Council works closely with the board and the staff to consistently evaluate our policies and services with the spirit of continuous improvement. The commitment of our parents

and the input they provide is crucial to the success of our program.

Program Information

Hancock County Early Head Start

79 Boland Circle

Sparta, Georgia 31087

706-444-6920 Ext. 239

Hancock County Head Start/ Pre-K

11131 Highway 15 North

Sparta, Georgia 31087

706-444-6920 Ext 275

Policy Council

The Hancock County EHS/ Head Start has an active policy council which consist of 5 parents of enrolled children and 2

community-at-large members.

• Devincey Holsey: President

• Brian Wilson: Vice President

• Gladys Jones: Secretary

• Tamika Ransom: Parlimentarian

• Connie Boyer: Member

• Pamela Ingram: Community-At-Large

• Boderick Foster- Community-At-Large

Governing Body

The Hancock County Board of Education is the grantee for the Head Start & Early Head Start Programs. The Hancock County Board of Education consist of five

members: • Executive Director: Dr. Charles Culver

• Annie Ingram: Chairperson

• Denise Ransom: Vice Chairman

• Henry Watkins: BOE Member

• Anthony Gilchrist BOE Member

• Glashandrian Bell: BOE Member

Program Information

The programs are located in Hancock County, Sparta, Georgia. Hancock

County, Georgia is located approximately 120 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia. The county is

primarily agricultural with a very low population density of only 21

people per square mile

Program Options

The Hancock County Head Start & Early Head Start Program provides comprehensive child development services to two hundred and twenty seven (227) eligible children, expectant mothers, and their families. The

“core” Head Start program expects to enroll approximately 155

toddlers and will operate as a center-based option for 6.5 hours per day, five days per week, August through late May, and children will attend classes

for 180 days per year, aligning with the local school system’s approved school calendar. Similarly, the Early Head Start Program will operate five

days per week for 6.5 hours per day but will provide year round programming for 220 days per year.

Program Enrollment

Hancock County Head Start operates Head Start, Early Head

Start and Pre-K programs in Sparta, Georgia. During the 2016-

2017 program year, comprehensive services were provided to

84 Early Head Start infants, toddlers, and/or expectant

families. In addition, we served 130 Head Start pre-school

(ages 3-4) children and families, of which 75 children (4 year

old) received Georgia state lottery funded Pre-K/Head Start

blended services.

Hancock County Head Start operates 9 Early Head Start

classrooms and 8 Head Start/ Pre-K classrooms.

Program Enrollment

Early Head Start Age

• Under 1 year:18

• 1 year old: 26

• 2 years old: 34

• Pregnant Women: 6

Race and Ethnicity

• Hispanic or Latino origin: 0

• Non-Hispanic or Non-Latino origin: 0

• American Indian or Alaska Native: 0

• Asian: 0

• Black or African American: 79

• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific

Islander: 0

• White: 3

• Bi-racial/Multi-racial: 2

Eligibility

• Income below 100% of federal

poverty line: 49

• Receipt of public assistance such as

TANF, SSI- 22

• Status as a foster child - # children

only: 2

• Status as homeless: 2

• Over income: 9

• Number of children exceeding the

allowed over income enrollment (as

noted below) with family incomes

between 100% and 130% of the

federal poverty line: 0

Program Enrollment Early Head Start

Prior Enrollment(Enrolled in Early Head Start):

• 2nd Year: 14

• 3 or more Years: 8

Primary Language• English: 83

• Spanish: 1

• Native Central American:0

• Middle Eastern Language: 0

• Other: 0

• Unspecified: 0

Program EnrollmentHead Start

Age

• 3 years old: 68

• 4 years old: 62

Race and Ethnicity

• Hispanic or Latino origin : 0

• Non-Hispanic or Non-Latino origin:0

• American Indian or Alaska Native: 0

• Asian: 1

• Black or African American: 126

• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander :

0

• White : 3

• Bi-racial/Multi-racial: 4

• Other: 0

Eligibility

• Income below 100% of federal poverty line: 111

• Receipt of public assistance such as TANF, SSI: 8

• Status as a foster child - # children only : 1

• Status as homeless: 1

• Over income: 9

• Number of children exceeding the allowed over income enrollment (as noted below) with family incomes between 100% and 130% of the federal poverty line: 0

Program Enrollment

Head StartPrimary Language

• English: 130

• Spanish: 0

• Native Central American:0

• Middle Eastern Language: 0

• Other: 0

• Unspecified: 0

Program Information

Early Head Start

• Serve infant, toddlers, and pregnant mothers

• 5 days a week and 6.5 hours of instructional time (220 days)

• Monday-Friday

• 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

• 9 classrooms

Head Start/ Pre-K

• Serve 3-5 year old

• 5 days a week and 6.5 hours of instructional time (180 days)

• Monday-Friday

• 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

• 8 classrooms


• Full Day Program (220/180 days)

• Parenting Workshops

• Dental and Medical Services

• Individualized Instruction

• Mental Health and Disability Services

• Daily Nutrition Meals & Snacks

• Transportation Services

Transportation/Facilities

• Service area- Hancock County,

Sparta, Georgia

• Qualified Staff

• Continuous safety training

• Child Car Seat Grant

• Health/ Safety Monitoring Review

(no findings)


The Hancock County Head Start/Early Head Start/Pre-K physical environment supports the delivery of high

quality services to all children and families including a healthy and safe environment.

We provide a safe, effective and reliable system of transporting enrolled children to and from the center,

field trips and to any other location necessary to receive services.


Support Staff

▪ Bus drivers with CDL and S Endorsement.

▪ Bus monitors

▪ Training Topics: Transportation Safety, Pedestrian Safety, CPR/ First Aid, Creative Curriculum, School Readiness, Performance Standards

Support Staff

• Full time and Part time Environmentalist

• Training Topics: Health and Safety, School Readiness, Bloodborne Pathogens, Injury and Prevention, Playground Safety

Health and Nutrition

Children need to be healthy in order to be able to learn. Our program partners with

medical and dental professionals as well as parents of enrolled children to ensure that

children receive the medical and dental care they need. We help parents to

understand the importance of health care, including the importance of good

nutrition, rest and exercise. We help families to establish medical and dental

homes for their children

Health/ Nutrition

Hancock County Head Start was able to offer parents health

training thanks to our community partners: Hancock County

Health Department, Baymon Dietary Consulting, SWAH

Fitness, GSCU Nursing Program, Oconee Regional Medical

Center, Babies Can’t Wait, Hancock County Farm Bureau,

etc. Parents were provided learning opportunities about

various childhood illnesses - what to look for, how to treat

the illness at home, healthy eating, family fun physical

activity, medical/ safety needs in the home, dental care, and

medication administration methods

Health Services

Head Start

Children with insurance at the end of enrollment: 120

Children up-to-date for Physicals: 130

Children with dental home: 130

Children who received dental services: 130

Children received medical treatment for those identified: 115

Children received dental treatment for those identified: 130

Early Head Start

Children with health insurance at the end of enrollment: 29

Children up-t-date for well-child exams: 78

Children with dental home: 78

Children who received health services: 78

Parent, Family, Community Engagement

Parent Involvement

Parents As Leaders

Parent Engagement

Policy Council


Staff

• PFCE Manager

• 4 Family Service Staff

• 2 (Early Head Start)

• 2 (Head Start/ Pre-K)

Staff Education

• PFCE Manager- 31 years of Teaching/ Literacy Coach/RTI Director

• 3 Staff (B. S. Psychology/ Social Work)

• 1 Staff (SFW Certified/ 36 years of Head Start experience)


Parent and family engagement in Head Start/Early Head

Start (HS/EHS) is about building relationships with

families that support family well-being, strong

relationships between parents and their children, and

ongoing learning and development for both parents

and children.


• Ensure that systems, supports and resources are in place to address

professional development,

• continuous improvement, program environment and partnerships related to

family well-being.

• Incorporate goals related to family well-being into agency work plans and

strategic planning.

• Ensure staff members have appropriate training and supervision and

manageable caseloads.

• Develop relationships with community members and community

organizations that support families’ interests and needs.

• Promote cross-service area teamwork.

• Contract or hire a mental health consultant with appropriate credentials and

experience to be a resource for staff and program needs around family well-

being.


• Use the community assessment and self assessment surveys,

the family partnership process, team meetings, and other tools

to understand community and family needs and interests.

• Review individual and system-wide family successes, referrals

and effective staff practices to evaluate family services.

• Collect data for individual families and aggregate it to review

the effectiveness of family services


PROGRAM ENVIRONMENT

• Welcome all families—and all family structures, sizes and

arrangements.

• Initiate relationships with families that are receptive,

responsive and respectful.

• Include family-friendly spaces with pictures and materials that

affirm and welcome all families.

• Engage in honest dialogue with families about their

expectations and staff/program objective


FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS

• Use family partnership assessments as a tool for relationship

building and as a basis for ongoing individualized family

services.

• Help families identify their interests, articulate their strengths

and needs and accomplish and/or develop goals.

• Use goal-oriented home visits to establish relationships with

families and to identify and support their interests and needs

through the family partnership process.

• Assist families in using resources and systems of support

regularly and continuously over a period of time.


TEACHING AND LEARNING

Participate in cross-service area teams and program meetings to

ensure that information about services related to family and

child well-being can inform teaching


COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

• Link families with support systems and resources and conduct

purposeful follow up to determine their effectiveness.

• Participate in community meetings and initiatives that increase

program capacity to respond to the needs and interests of

families.


• E: Eligibility – income and age

• R: Recruitment- on-going (radio announcements, posters, door-to-door, flyers, posters, letters sent home to parents and churches)

• S: Selection- neediest of the needy

• E: Enrollment- under enrolled by 32 children

• A: Attendance- 85% of the enrolled children

ERSEA

FAMILY ENGAGMENT➢ Parent Café

➢ Parent Meeting

➢ Policy Council

➢ Goal Settings

ATTENDANCE

➢ EARLY HEAD START 82.8%

➢ HEAD START/PRE-K 94.7%

CONNECT PARENTS TO COMMUNITY RESOURCES➢ In-Kind

2016-2017 $482,469.00

80% Budget/ 20% In-Kind

PFCE GOALSFamilies Well-Being: Parents and families are safe, healthy,

and have increased financial security

Enhance parents learning by connecting them to educational and training opportunities within the community.

Children and Families Served2016-2017

On-Going Recruitment

ERSEA • Face book

• Radio

• Twitter

• Door to Door

• Newspaper

• Instagram

• Flyers

• Community Partners

• Community Business Partners

ERSEA


Parent Education

• Healthy Homes

• Finance Education

• Career Building

• Child Advocacy

• Fire Prevention

• Continuing Education

• Healthy Eating Habits

• Positive Discipline Practices

Parent Involvement

• Classroom Reading/ Activities

• Chaperone Field Trips

• Parent Activity Committee (Parent Café)

• Policy Council

• Recruitment

• Parent Meetings

Education Overview…

• Early Head Start- In the area of language and cognitive, there was an increase in the

number of children “meeting or exceeding widely held expectation” for the 2016-

2017 school year; however, there was a decrease in mathematics domain.

• During a planning meeting for the 2017-2018 school year academic, the

management team decided to use the slogan “Raising the Bar Across the

Curriculum… Read, Write, Learn” as a campaign to promote all domains in the

program. Integrating STEAM in daily instructional practices was the focus for an

intensive three day pre-service professional development facilitated by Lakeshore.

• The Early Head Start program uses the BRIGANCE Early Childhood Screens III

for Infants and Toddlers, the Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers, and

Two’s as the curriculum, Frog Street as the supplement, and Teaching Strategies

Gold as the assessment tool.

What is BRIGANCE….

• The BRIGANCE is a screener which allows teachers to identify potential developmental

delays and giftedness in language, motor, self-help, social-emotion and cognitive skills.

• BRIGANCE is administered within 45 calendar days of the school year.

• Results of the screening help identify developmental appropriate assessment, reduce over-

referrals with at-risk cutoffs, determine each child’s specific strength and needs and assess

school readiness.

BRIGANCE Results for 2016-2017 School Year (EHS)

__________________________________________________________

Gifted On Level At-Risk Developmental Delayed

25 128 28 15

DATA DIG…….………… (EHS)

7

88

5

Gross Physical


Hancock County Early Head Start prepares children

for school by focusing on their healthy development

in four important areas of growth: physical,

cognitive, emotional, and social growth an

emphasis on social/emotional development. The

infant and toddler years are watershed of

development in the emotional domain. These skills

lay the foundation for positive social interactions

and, ultimately, academic, and school readiness for

long life learning. All children transitioning out of

EHS met their school readiness goals and ready for

Head Start.

Learning Experiences at EHS

Data Dig .……………..(HS/ Pre-K) TSGIn Head Start & Pre-K- there were significant increases

in the number of children “meeting and exceeding”

widely held expectations for the 2016-17 school year, in

all areas; however, we experienced a slight deficiency in

mathematics.

Data Dig …………………... (HS/ Pre-K) TSG

Measures to Increase Mathematics

We have taken extra measures to increase

math by engaging in activities that

incorporate sorting, counting, weighing,

measuring and other mathematical skills.

We are steadily working to implement other

areas of study. We have adopted a STEAM

focus for this school year, incorporating

Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and

Math into the daily schedule of activities.

.

Professional Development

Various trainings was administered to the Head Start/Pre-K,

Education Staff, and parents in 2016-2017. It was proven to all, that

significant improvements were made through professional

development and trainings that was an integral part of our growth.

Professional development is ongoing. We will continue engaging in

trainings conducted by Lakeshore, OHS, Best Practices, peer too

peer tutoring, workshops and webinars and other required trainings

to increase teaching practices in the classroom.

•CLASS Training/School Readiness

•Better Brains for Babies

•Essential Elements Training

•Building Blocks for Literacy Training

•NCQTL 15 Minutes Suites

•Education Leadership

•Math & More Activity/ Lesson Plans

•Teaching Strategies Gold

•Transition Training/ Active Supervision

•Head Start Outcome Framework

•Speech/Language Referral

•SDE/ GELDS Training

•Pre-K Annual Training/ Asthma Training

•Child Abuse and Mandated Reporting

•MMCI Training

To increase child outcome and teacher practices we

have launched STEAM, purchased additional HATCH

tablets and Hatchable games, visited museums of

arts and sciences, planetariums, experimenting,

storytelling, and partnering with Science and

Agriculture departments.

Staff Credentials: Although all 8 Lead Teachers hold A Bachelor’s

Degree, 5 TA’s hold an Associate degree and 3 hold CDA’s,

instruction initiative depends solely on the whole child, the delivery of

the instruction, the curriculum, school readiness goals, performance

standards, Head Start child outcome framework, and the Georgia

Early Learning Standards and Development to support learning

within the classroom.

Community Readers

IT IS ALL ABOUT …..CLASS

CLASROOM

Dimensions Domains

Positive Climate

Negative Climate

TeacherSensitivity

Regard forStudent

Perspective

BehaviorManagemen

tProductivity

InstructionalLearning Format

ConceptDevelopment

Quality of

Feedback

LanguageModeling

EmotionalSupport

ClassroomOrganization

InstructionalSupport

Hill/ Reid 7/7 1/1 6/6 7/6 5/6 6/5 6/6 6/5 7/6 6/6 5/5 6/6 6/6

Noley/ Jackson 7/7 1/1 5/7 5/7 7/7 5/6 4/6 4/6 4/6 4/6 5/6 5/7 4/6

Clark/ Clark 7/7 1/1 5/5 5/5 7/7 5/6 3/5 3/4 3/4 3/4 5/5 5/6 3/4

Hosley/ Wingfield 7/7 1/1 5/6 5/6 7/6 6/7 5/6 3/6 4/6 4/7 5/5 6/7 4/7

Cummings/ Webb 7/7 1/1 5/7 5/6 7/5 5/6 4/6 4/7 4/6 4/6 5/6 5/6 4/7

Evans/ Ashley 7/7 2/1 6/6 6/6 6/6 6/6 6/6 6/6 6/6 6/6 5/5 6/6 6/6

Denson/ Wingfield 6/7 1/1 6/5 6/5 5/7 5/5 5/5 6/4 6/4 6/4 6/5 3/6 6/4

Simmons/ Strother 7/7 1/2 5/6 5/6 7/6 5/6 4/5 3/5 3/6 3/5 5/6 5/6 3/5

NationalAverage 5.93 1.06 5.82 5.3 5.95 6.05 5.2 2.33 2.8 3.35 6.0 5.73 2.83

Center Average 6.9/7.0

1.1/1.1

5.4/6.0 5.5/5.9 6.4/6.3 5.4/6.0 4.6/5.5 4.4/5.4

4.6/5.5

4.5/5.5 5.3/5.0 5.7/6.0 6.3/5.5

What is CLASS?The Classroom Assessment Scoring System

(CLASS) is an observational instrument developed at

the Curry School Center for Advanced Study of

Teaching and Learning to assess classroom quality

in HS/PK-12 classrooms. It describes multiple

dimensions of teaching that are linked to student

achievement.

The CLASS can be used to reliably assess

classroom quality for research and program

evaluation and also provides a tool to help new and

experienced teachers become more effective.

Accolades

• ERSEA Review- No Findings

• State Fiscal Audit- No Findings

• 1% COLA

• Literacy Resource Room

• MMCI Train the Trainer

• Data Increase Program Wide

• Garden Grant

• Technology Grant

• Model Resource Room

• Infant & Toddler HATCH Tablets

• Building Enhancements

Head Start/ Early Head Start Grant Award

Category Program

Operations

Training/

Technical

Assistance

Non Federal

Share

Other Sources

(Pre-K)

Personnel $1,109,094.00

Fringe Benefits $511, 704.00

Travel $8,000.00

Supplies $171,654.50

Contract $45,000.00

Other $258,511.00 $42,730.00 $564,806.00 $186,080

Direct Cost $2,198,083.00

Indirect Cost $61,140.00

TOTAL $2,259,223.00 $43, 020 $564,806.00 $186,080

RAISING THE BAR ACROSS

THE CURRICULUM

Excellence

Governance

Management Team

Instructional Staff

Children

Staff Support

Families

PFCE

Community/

Stakeholders

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