CLASS Quality Improvement
Explore the resources on this page to find information useful to directors, education managers, coaches, teachers, and others who want to improve the quality of instruction for children in Head Start programs.
Continuous Improvement
These resources explain how Head Start programs use data from ongoing monitoring and annual self-assessments to improve systems and services that help in achieving goals related to positive outcomes for children and families. Ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement together make up one of the 12 program management systems of the Management Systems Wheel and are a program foundation in the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.
Head Start and CLASS Quality Improvement
Learn more about how the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS): Pre-K® observation tool helps improve teacher-child interactions program quality and child outcome.
Data on Improving Quality in Head Start Programs
Four reports provide evidence that, since the last reauthorization, quality in Head Start has increased across the country..