The 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 from low-income communities can access innovative, holistic, and high-quality early learning experiences.
The Network is a group of ideal learning providers who receive Head Start funds, either directly as grantees or indirectly as partners, and who have come together as a community of practice to provide resources, guidance, and support for programs that bridge ideal learning and Head Start. Members include providers implementing Montessori, Reggio Emilia-inspired, HighScope, and Tools of the Mind approaches. The group hosts a library of resources for providers to help with the implementation of Head Start rules and requirements, as well as using the Network’s recently published Policy Priorities to advocate on behalf of changes to the federal program that will make the program more accessible to child-centered, early learning models. For example, network partners submitted public comments supporting proposed changes to the Head Start Designation Renewal System that would make the process of re-competition more fair and transparent.
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