Resource Library

Learn about Native language use in Region XI Head Start classrooms.

Explore OPRE’s study about Head Start’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on a national survey of Head Start grantees, interviews with Regional Program Managers and Head Start Collaboration Office Directors as well as interviews with program directors, teachers, and family service workers.

The Early Care and Education Research Scholars (ECE): Head Start Dissertation Grant program is designed to build the capacity in the field for effective research that will inform early care and education policy and practice for low-income children and families.

Discover a brief and volume of profiles describing characteristics of a selection of online, competency-based professional development systems for teachers and caregivers of infants and toddlers.

This profile provides an overview of the CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Competencies, a competency framework developed in Texas to advance early childhood education by outlining the teacher and caregiver practices and behaviors that best promote infant and toddler development.

This profile provides an overview of the two competency frameworks Oregon is using—the state-developed Core Knowledge Categories and Standards and (2) the ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators.

This profile provides an overview of the Maine Infant Toddler Credential, a competency framework that Maine developed to support infant and toddler teachers and caregivers across setting types.

This profile provides an overview of the Gateways Infant Toddler Credential, a competency framework that Illinois developed to support early care and education professionals interested in focusing their professional development activities on the care and education of infants and toddlers across setting types.

This profile provides an overview of the California Early Childhood Educator Competencies, a competency framework that California developed to improve the quality of early care and education in the state and support the professional development of anyone responsible for the care and education of children ages birth to 5 years old across setting types. 

This OPRE brief uses data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2019) to explore Head Start programs’ interaction with other systems such as licensing, QRISs, as well as with non-Head Start sources of funding like state and local pre-K.