National Head Start Association

Head Start Monitoring Task Force


The implementation of the DRS system

and incorrect reporting of the Head Start Impact Study have created an urgent need for the Head Start community to clearly define what makes a high quality program and to have a trusted system that allows programs to demonstrate that they are of high quality. Without such a reliable system, Head Start is vulnerable to poor implementation of the Designation Renewal process and to on-going attempts of our opponents to argue that Head Start has “no impact at all.”

NHSA anticipated this opportunity and formed an NHSA Monitoring Reform Task Force.

The Task Force's purpose is “Developing a proposal for a Head Start monitoring system that assures compliance and promotes excellence.”

 

Download the Task Force's final report here

Download the slides from the January 9, 2013 MTF call here.

 


Task Force Members

Anne Mitchell
NY

Bill Castellanos
CYFS Division Director
Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo Co. Inc.
San Luis Obispo, CA

Blair Hyatt
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Head Start Association Harrisburg, PA

Cleo Rodriguez
Executive Director
MSHSA
Washington, DC

Danny Wells
Director
Chickasaw Nation Head Start
Ada, OK

Denny Demers
CEO
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council Inc. Crookston. MN

Esmirna Valencia
Executive Director
Division of Children and Family Services
Riverside, CA

Gayle Cunningham
Executive Director
Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity
Birmingham, AL

Gretchen Knowlton
Policy Director
National Association for State Community Services Programs

Jane Adams
Membership Development and Services Director
National Head Start Association
Washington, DC

Jeffrey Capizanno
Director
Policy Equity Group
Washington, DC

Joel Ryan
Executive Director
Washington State Head Start and ECEAP Director
Bellevue, WA

Kathryn Helsel
Senior Associate
Three Feathers Associates
(Region XI Executive Director)
Norman, OK

Kay Floyd
Collaboration Director
State of Oklahoma

Manda Klein-Lopez
Director Strategic Initiatives
Teaching Strategies Inc.

Michele Pino
Executive Director
South Kennebec Child Development Corporation
Farmington, ME

Pauline Koch

Phil Accord
President and CEO
Children’s Home/Chambliss Shelter
Chatanooga, TN

Richard Fiene

Sandy Simar
Director
Child Care Resource and Referral Inc.
Rochester, MN

Tammy Mann
President and CEO
The Campagna Center
Alexandria, VA

Tameka Henry
Parent
Acelero Learning
Clark County Nevada
Las Vegas, NV

Therese Magnuson
Vice President
Beacon Consulting
Washington, DC

Tim Nolan
Executive Director
Child and Family Centers of Excellence Inc.
Waukesha, WI

Vanessa Rich
Director
City Of Chicago Head Start
Chicago, IL

Yasmina Vinci
Executive Director
National Head Start Association Washington, DC

Tommy Sheridan
National Head Start Association
Washington, DC

Emmalie Dropkin
National Head Start Association
Washington, DC

Terry Casey
Consultant