Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Explore key components of ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement. Examine their purpose in the planning cycle and identify valuable tools and practices for program leaders.
Ongoing Monitoring
Find resources on how to measure program performance, identify areas of concern, make immediate corrections, and generate reports. Head Star programs use data from ongoing monitoring to help inform their annual self-assessment. Ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement together make up one of the 12 program management systems of the Management Systems Wheel.
Developing Ongoing Monitoring Processes
Ongoing monitoring is critical to successful Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships. Learn how one grantee developed tools and a collaborative process to build a strong ongoing monitoring program.
Support Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Ongoing monitoring helps Head Start programs better address goals and objectives. It also engages all stakeholders in the program planning process.
Data in Head Start Programs
Data in Head Start Programs is a series of interactive online learning modules that includes a mixture of practical scenarios, real-life examples from the field, and tools and templates.
Voices from the Field
Watch these video clips to see how data analysis and the planning cycle comes to life in Head Start programs.
Creating a Culture That Embraces Data
This interactive module is designed to help Head Start programs create an organizational culture that embraces the use of data to drive decisions.