(9) Head Start core program director survey - Spring 2017

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H ead Start Family and Child Experiences Survey

Program Director Survey
Spring 2017

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Introduction

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. There are no right or wrong answers to the questions. Questions are not always numbered sequentially, so please answer questions in the order they appear, regardless of the question number. Additionally, you may be told to skip some questions because they do not apply to you.

A. Staffing and Recruitment

The first questions are about staffing and recruitment.

A_M5

A12h

Does your program serve any children or families who speak a language other than English at home?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO SECTION B, PAGE X

Does your Head Start program offer or make available any of the following services for families of children who speak a language other than English? Do you offer…

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		YES	NO
a.	Assessment of English language skills for families of children who speak a language other than English?	1	0
b1.	Assessment of basic English reading and writing skills for families of children who speak a language other than English?	1	0
b2.	Assessment of basic reading and writing skills for families of children who speak a language other than English in the family’s home language?	1	0
c.	Activities and workshops for parents of children who speak a language other than English?	1	0
d.	Assistance in applying for medical insurance?	1	0
e.	Information about adult ESL or education and community resources?	1	0

B. Staff Education and Training

B2

The next questions are about efforts to promote staff education and training.

Does your program have any efforts in place to help program staff get their Associate’s (A.A.) or Bachelor’s (B.A.) degrees?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO B3h, PAGE 3

B3

What is your program doing to help program staff get their A.A. or B.A. degrees? Are you . . .

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		YES	NO
a.	Providing tuition assistance?	1	0
b.	Giving staff release time?	1	0
c.	Providing assistance for course books?	1	0
d.	Providing A.A. or B.A. courses onsite?	1	0
e.	Anything else? – Specify	1	0

B3f

Who is eligible for assistance to get their A.A. or B.A. degrees?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Center-based teachers

4 Home visitors

7 Family child care providers

6 Content managers

2 Assistant teachers

3 Family service workers

5 Other Specify

B3h

Programs can support staffs’ professional development in a lot of different ways. Does your program offer the following to teachers, family child care providers, or home visitors?

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		YES	NO
1.	Consultants hired to work directly with staff	1	0
2.	Attendance at regional conferences	1	0
3.	Attendance at state conferences	1	0
11.	Attendance at national conferences	1	0
12.	Paid substitutes to allow teachers time to prepare, train, and/or plan	1	0
4.	Mentoring or coaching	1	0
5.	Workshops/trainings sponsored by the program	1	0
6.	Workshops/trainings provided by other organizations	1	0
8.	A community of learners, also called a professional learning community, facilitated by an expert	1	0
9.	Time to participate in Office of Head Start training and technical assistance webinars	1	0
10.	Other – Specify	1	0

Of the activities your program offers, which does your Head Start professional development funding directly support?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

• 1 Hire consultants to work directly with staff

• 2 Attendance at regional conferences

• 3 Attendance at state conferences

• 4 Attendance at national conferences

• 5 Paid substitutes to allow teachers time to prepare, train, and/or plan

• 6 Workshops/trainings sponsored by the program

• 7 Workshops/trainings provided by other organizations

• 8 Mentoring or coaching

• 9 A community of learners, also called a professional learning community, facilitated by and expert

• 10Time to participate in Office of Head Start training and technical assistance webinars

• 11Tuition assistance

• 12 Onsite A.A. or B.A. courses

• 99 Other Specify

B27b

BB10b

How often have you and/or other staff in your program used or accessed information or resources provided by or through each of the following? Would you say never, rarely, sometimes, or often?

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		NEVER	RARELY	SOMETIMES	OFTEN
a.	Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) website	1	2	3	4
b.	Office of Head Start National Centers	1	2	3	4
c.	Professional organizations	1	2	3	4
d.	Private consultants, private organizations, or commercial vendors	1	2	3	4
e.	Regional Training and Technical Assistance Specialists	1	2	3	4
f.	Office of Head Start Webinars	1	2	3	4
g.	Regional Conferences	1	2	3	4
h.	State Conferences	1	2	3	4
i.	National Conferences	1	2	3	4
j.	Other – Specify	1	2	3	4

Does your program have any staff who serve as mentors or coaches?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO E2, PAGE 9

B24a

B24b-d

How many mentors or coaches are currently working with teaching staff, family child care providers, or home visitors in your program? Please tell us the number in each of the following categories.

	NUMBER OF STAFF
B24b. Employees/staff hired by your program to serve as mentors or coaches and who serve most or all of their time in that role (in other words, they spend more than half of their time being a mentor or coach)
B24c. Consultants or contractors hired by your program to serve as mentors or coaches
B24d. Other program employees/staff who serve as mentors or coaches, but who spend less than half of their time being a mentor or coach (do not include staff who were counted in B24b)				If B24d = 0, GO TO B26a.

B25a

Thinking of the “other program staff who serve as mentors or coaches, but who spend less than half of their time being a mentor or coach” (those from the previous question), on average what percent of their time is spent on activities related to mentoring or coaching teaching staff, family child care providers, or home visitors?

PERCENT

B26a

Do coaches or mentors working in your program use a specific model or approach?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Practice-based coaching

4 Coaching tied to a specific curriculum (for example, Building Blocks)

6 MyTeachingPartner

7 Relationship-based coaching

99 Other – Specify

Does the coaching or mentoring have a remote or web-based component?
1	Yes, coaching/mentoring is primarily remote/web-based
2	Yes, there is a remote/web-based supplement to the coaching/mentoring
0	No

B26b

B26c

B26d

Are all of your staff receiving coaching or mentoring?
1	Yes
0	No

B28

How do you determine who will receive coaching?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Conduct classroom observations

2 Review classroom-level assessment data

Based on regular performance reviews or evaluations

Based on number of years of experience

3 Directly ask the staff if they need or want coaching

5 Review child assessment data for classrooms

99 Other – Specify

How do mentors and coaches assess the needs of teachers, family child care providers, or home visitors?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Conduct classroom observations

2 Review classroom-level assessment data

3 Based on regular performance reviews or evaluations

4 Based on number of years of experience

5 Directly ask the staff

6 Review child assessment data

7 Have them complete surveys or questionnaires

99 Other – Specify

B30

B29

Mentors and coaches have different methods of supporting teachers in improving their practice. What methods do mentors and coaches use when working with teachers, family child care providers, or home visitors in your program?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Discuss with staff what they observe

2 Provide written feedback to staff on what they observe

3 Have teachers or FCC providers watch a videotape of themselves teaching

4 Have teachers or FCC providers observe another teacher's classroom or watch a video of another teacher

5 Model teaching practices

6 Suggest trainings for staff to attend

7 Provide trainings for staff

8 Review child assessment data with staff

99 Other – Specify

Do staff in your program receive mentoring and coaching from the same person/people responsible for supervising them?

1 Yes, all teachers are mentored/coached by their own supervisor

2 Yes, some of the teachers are mentored/coached by their own supervisor

0 No, none of the teachers are mentored/coached by their own supervisor

E. Curriculum and Assessment

The next questions are about curriculum and assessment.

What is your main curriculum?

MARK ONE ONLY

11 Creative Curriculum

12 High/Scope

13 High Reach

14 Let’s Begin with the Letter People

15 Montessori

16 Bank Street

17 Creating Child Centered Classrooms- Step by Step

18 Scholastic Curriculum

19 Locally Designed Curriculum

20 Curiosity Corner

21 Other – Specify

E3j

How many times has your program switched its main curriculum in the past 5 years?

TIMES

E9

What is the main child assessment tool that you use?

MARK ONE ONLY

1 Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment (previous version known as the Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum Assessment Toolkit for Ages 3-5)

2 High/Scope Child Observation Record (COR)

3 Galileo

4 Ages and Stages Questionnaires: a Parent Completed, Child-Monitoring System

5 Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP)

6 Work Sampling System for Head Start

7 Learning Accomplishment Profile Screening (LAP INCLUDING E-LAP, LAP-R AND LAP-D)

8Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)

9 Brigance Preschool Screen for Three and Four Year Old Children

10 Assessment designed for this program

11 Another state developed assessment – Specify

99 Other – Specify

0 Do not use a child assessment tool GO TO SECTION H, PAGE 11

E10c

How many times has your program switched its main assessment tool in the past 5 years?

TIMES

H. Overview of Program Management

H7

The next questions are about program management.

In the past 12 months, have you participated in the following kinds of professional development?

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		YES	NO
a.	College or university course(s) related to your role as a manager or leader	1	0
b.	Visits to other Head Start or early childhood programs to improve your own work as a program director	1	0
c.	A network or community of Head Start and other early childhood program leaders organized by someone outside of your program, for example a professional organization	1	0
d.	A leadership institute offered by Head Start	1	0
e.	A leadership institute offered by an organization other than Head Start	1	0
f.	Training or conferences related to your role as a manager or leader (for example, Head Start governance training, CLASS training)	1	0

H8

What do you need additional help with to do your job as a center director more effectively? Select the top three.

MARK UP TO THREE (3) BOXES

4 Program improvement planning

5 Budgeting

6 Staffing (hiring)

10 Data-driven decision making

7 Teacher evaluation

8 Evaluation of other program staff

9 Teacher professional development

1 Educational/curriculum leadership

3 Creating positive learning environments

2 Child assessment

11 Working with parents and families

16 Working with and partnering in the community

N. Use of Program Data and Information

The next questions are about use of program data and information.

N3

Do you use an electronic database to store program data? (Sometimes these databases might be called management information systems or data systems. They might be something set up or managed by an external vendor, or something set up by your own program.)
1	Yes
0	No GO TO N5

N4

Is your management information system(s) something that your program set up, or is it provided and managed by an external vendor?

MARK ONE ONLY

1 Set up by our own program

2 External vendor

3 Combination

N5

Does your program’s child assessment tool provide a web-based option for storing the information collected by teachers (for example, Teaching Strategies GOLD online or COR Advantage)?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO N5c, PAGE 15

N5a

Does your program make use of the web-based option?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO N5c, PAGE 15

N5b

Does the web-based option provide automated reports that include suggested classroom activities based on assessment results for any of the following groups?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Individual children

2 Small groups

3 Whole classrooms

0 Our child assessment tool does not include this option

N5c

Which of the following data and information can be linked electronically to child assessment information?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Child/family demographics

2 Vision, hearing, developmental, social, emotional, and/or behavioral screenings

3 Child attendance data

4 School readiness goals

5 Family needs

6 Service referrals for families

7 Services received by families

8 Parent/family attendance data

9 Parent/family goals

10 CLASS results or other quality measures

11 Staff/teacher performance evaluations

12 Personnel records

13 None of the above

N6

Do you have someone on staff responsible for analyzing or summarizing program data so those data can be used to support decision-making or answer research questions? This person might also support other program staff in summarizing and analyzing data.
1	Yes
0	No GO TO SECTION O, PAGE 16

N7

Does this person focus only on data analysis tasks?
1	Yes, this person focuses only on these data tasks
0	No, this person has other responsibilities

N8

Has this person ever received any training or taken a course related to data analysis?
1	Yes
0	No

O. Program Resources

The next questions are about your program’s resources.

Many grantees have revenue from sources other than Head Start that allows them to serve additional children and families (that may or may not qualify for Head Start) or to support other initiatives and improvements. The next questions are about these sources of revenue.

O2

Does your program receive any revenues from the following sources other than Head Start?

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		YES	NO
a.	Tuitions and fees paid by parents - including parent fees and additional fees paid by parents such as registration fees, transportation fees from parents, late pick up/late payment fees	1	0
b.	Tuitions paid by state government (vouchers/certificates, state contracts, transportation, state Pre-K funds, grants from state agencies)	1	0
c.	Local government (e.g., Pre-K paid by local school board or other local agency, grants from county government)	1	0
d.	Federal government other than Head Start (e.g., Title I, Child and Adult Care Food Program, WIC)	1	0
e.	Revenues from non-government community organizations or other grants (e.g., United Way, local charities, or other service organizations)	1	0
f.	Revenues from fund raising activities, cash contributions, gifts, bequests, special events	1	0
g.	Other – Specify	1	0

O3

If your program receives revenue from more than two sources, which of the following are the two largest sources of revenue for your program other than Head Start?

MARK Up To 2 (two) BOXES

1 Tuitions and fees paid by parents

2 Tuitions paid by state government

3 Local government

4 Federal government other than Head Start

5 Revenues from community organizations or other grants

6 Revenues from fund raising activities, cash contributions, gifts, bequests, special events

7 Other – Specify

O4

Please indicate the purpose of all sources of revenue that are not from Head Start.

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
			YES	NO
a.	Enrollment of additional children		1	0
b.	Other services/supports for enrolled children		1	0
c.	Services/interventions for parents		1	0
d.	Professional development for program staff		1	0
e.	Materials for the program		1	0
f.	Capital improvements		1	0

S. Head Start Program Performance Standards

[Include Plus Study status and challenge items here, as items S1 through S12b.]

I. Director Employment and Educational Background

Now, we’d like to ask you some questions about your professional background and your job with Head Start.

In total, how many years have you been a director…

Please round your response to the nearest whole year.

	NUMBER OF YEARS
I0. In any early childhood program
I2a. In any Head Start program
I2b. Of this Head Start program

IA

I1

In what month and year did you start working for this Head Start program?

MONTH

YEAR

I2

In total, how many years have you worked with any Head Start or Early Head Start Program?

Please round your response to the nearest whole year. Note, Head Start has been in existence for about 52 years.

YEARS

I3

How many hours per week are you paid to work for Head Start?

HOURS

I23

What is your total annual salary (before taxes) as a program director for the current program year?

$

,

.

0

0

DOLLARS PER YEAR

I6

In your current Head Start position(s), how much do the following make it harder for you to do your job well? Do they make it a great deal harder, somewhat harder, or not at all harder for you to do your job well?

		MARK ONE FOR EACH ROW
		GREAT DEAL HARDER	SOMEWHAT HARDER	NOT AT ALL HARDER
a.	Time constraints (not enough hours in the day)	3	2	1
b.	Too many conflicting demands	3	2	1
c.	Not a high enough salary for the job demands	3	2	1
d.	Lack of support staff	3	2	1
e.	Not enough training and technical assistance for professional development	3	2	1
f.	Not enough support and communication from administration	3	2	1
g.	Not enough funds for supplies and activities	3	2	1
h.	Dealing with a challenging population	3	2	1
i.	Staff turnover	3	2	1
j.	Lack of parent support	3	2	1
k.	Lack of qualified teaching staff	3	2	1
l.	Anything else? Specify	3	2	1

GO TO I24, PAGE XX

I12

What is the highest grade or year of school that you completed?

MARK ONE ONLY

1 Up to 8th Grade

2 9th to 11th Grade

3 12th Grade, but No Diploma

4 High School Diploma/Equivalent

5 Vocational/Technical Program after High School

6 Some College, but No Degree GO TO I14, PAGE XX

7 Associate’s Degree

8 Bachelor’s Degree

9 Graduate or Professional School, but No Degree

10 Master’s Degree (MA, MS)

11 Doctorate Degree (Ph.D., Ed.D.)

12 Professional Degree after Bachelor’s Degree (Medicine/MD, Dentistry/DDS, Law/JD, Etc.)

I13

In what field did you obtain your highest degree?

MARK ONE ONLY

1 Child Development or Developmental Psychology

2 Early Childhood Education

3 Elementary Education

4 Special Education

5 Education Administration/Management & Supervision

6 Business Administration/Management & Supervision

99 Other field – Specify

I14

Did your schooling include 6 or more college courses in early childhood education or child development?
1	Yes GO TO I15b
0	No IF YOU COMPLETED SOME COLLEGE, BUT DO NOT HAVE A DEGREE, GO TO 15b; OTHERWISE, GO TO I15

I15

Have you completed 6 or more college courses in early childhood education or child development since you finished your degree?
1	Yes
0	No

I15b

Do you currently hold a license, certificate, and/or credential in administration of early childhood/child development programs or schools?
1	Yes
0	No

I24

What is your gender?
1	Male
2	Female

I25

In what year were you born?

YEAR

I26

Are you of Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino origin?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO I28, PAGE XX

I27

Which one of these best describes you? You may mark more than one.

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano,

2 Puerto Rican,

3 Cuban, or

99 Another Spanish/Hispanic/Latino group? – Specify

I28

What is your race? You may mark more than one.

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

11 White

12 Black or African American

13 American Indian or Native American

14 Asian Indian

15 Chinese

16 Filipino

17 Japanese

18 Korean

19 Vietnamese

20 Other Asian

21 Native Hawaiian

22 Guamanian or Chamorro

23 Samoan

24 Other Pacific Islander – Specify

99 Another race – Specify

I29

Do you speak a language other than English?
1	Yes
0	No GO TO Z1, PAGE XX

I30

What languages other than English do you speak?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

12 Spanish

20 Arabic

13 Cambodian (Khmer)

14 Chinese

11 French

15 Haitian Creole

16 Hmong

17 Japanese

18 Korean

19 Vietnamese

99 Other– Specify

Z. Paper Versus Web

Why did you choose to complete the paper survey rather than complete the survey on the Web?

MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES

1 Did not have access to a computer

2 Computers were in use by others at the times I wanted to do the survey

3 Started the survey but experienced technical problems such as:

3a Screen frozen

3b Took too long to load the first page

3c Took too long to load subsequent pages

4 Tried to log into Web address, but an error message appeared…

4a “Invalid password”

4b “This page has expired”

4c “This website is busy, please try again later”

5 Computer screen too small to read questions, such as required too much scrolling—up or down, side to side

6 Unable to read the questions on the screen because of the color scheme on the computer

7 Chose to complete the paper survey because it was readily available

Z1

Z2

What kind of help could we have given you to make it easier to complete this survey on the web?

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