Ideal Learning Head Start Policy Brief

Equity Head Start IL Practice Public Policy

Organization: Ideal Learning Head Start Network

Lessons learned from the Ideal Learning Head Start Network

This brief provides lessons learned and policy strategies to strengthen the inclusion of ideal learning approaches in Head Start programming. The report pulls from a series of conversations between 7-10 Head Start providers who use ideal learning approaches (the Ideal Learning Head Start Network) and focuses on multiple issues, including: funding, child assessments, program quality, teacher and administration training, and guidance and support from outside community organizations.

Iheoma Iruka, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Fellow, & Founding Director The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC

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Annie Frazer

Montessori Partnerships for Georgia; Ideal Learning Head Start Network

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Junlei Li

Senior Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Toscha Blalock

Chief Learning & Evaluation Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Havertown, PA

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Interview with leaders at Educational Alliance’s Manny Cantor Center

A Conversation with Jasmine Palmer, Director of Mental Health & Disability Services & Louis Hamlyn-Harris, Senior Director Early Childhood. In…

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Ideal Learning Head Start Network

The Ideal Learning Head Start Network aims to facilitate the integration of ideal learning approaches into Head Start, ensuring that children…

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Join the Ideal Learning Head Start Network!

If you are a current Head Start provider using an ideal learning-aligned early childhood approach, or if you would like to be, please reach out!

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Ideal Learning Head Start Policy Brief

Lessons learned from the Ideal Learning Head Start Network

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Iheoma Iruka, Ph.D.

Annie Frazer

Junlei Li

Toscha Blalock

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Interview with leaders at Educational Alliance’s Manny Cantor Center

Related Investments

Ideal Learning Head Start Network

Join the Ideal Learning Head Start Network!