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Amanda Renea Lankford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many Head Start programs have closed classrooms due to staff shortages, with up to 30% of teacher positions unfilled. Reducing the elevated teacher turnover rate in Head Start centers is critical to maintaining program effectiveness and controlling costs; however, a limiting factor may be differences in administrators' and teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Teacher Shortage, Administrator Attitudes
Patricia A. Ulman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educators are increasingly using trauma-informed approaches to lessen the harsh effects of trauma on children. Although this practice is becoming more common in U.S. kindergarten through Grade 12 schools, it has been slow to reach the early care and education setting, which includes Head Start programs. Head Starts are encouraged to use a trauma…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Low Income Students, Administrator Attitudes
Katie Gonzalez; Ellen Litkowski; Louisa Tarullo; Jeani Choe; Sara Bernstein – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
This research brief draws on data from the 2021-2022 Study of Family and Staff Well-Being in Head Start FACES Programs (2021-2022 Study) to examine the strategies programs used to improve staff retention and well-being. Using data collected in spring 2022 after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, this brief describes the types of…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Early Childhood Teachers
Kim, Yoonjeon; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J. E.; Powell, Anna; Muruvi, Wanzi – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2022
The early care and education (ECE) system has been under-resourced and undervalued since well before the pandemic. Low pay and poor working environment have long plagued the ECE industry as key drivers of chronic high turnover rates and teacher staffing shortages in the field. Additional disparities within the system place providers on vastly…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education