New Monitoring Practices
OHS is conducting more unannounced FA1 and FA2 reviews. Readiness is no longer about anticipating a scheduled visit, but being prepared for reviewers to walk through the door at any moment.
Prepare Your Team for a Federal Review
Training and Coaching Resources
Federal Review Readiness
Preparation should be part of everyday operations.
Federal review readiness is stronger when leaders and staff understand what reviewers are looking for and can connect daily practice, systems, and data to the program's story.
Preparation Enables Success
Prepared programs have better reviews. Success depends on program leaders and staff understanding the intent of the monitoring protocol, focus on the OHS priorities, and organize themselves not just for federal reviews but for continuing, high-level performance. Our training and coaching are designed to help your team excel.
Training Leader
Dr. Desiree Del-Zio
Early Intel's Lead Trainer, a former Head Start federal review lead and monitoring operations leader, directs these activities. She oversees our team of experts, who bring direct experience in the federal review process. Dr. Del-Zio previously led Q.A. in a major Head Start program and has overseen hundreds of federal reviews around the country.
About Early Intel
Early Intel is the leading provider of data analytics and quality improvement resources to Head Start programs. Our tools, training and coaching help programs master their data and strengthen their leadership. Early Intel also sponsors the Q.I. Network, a national consortium of Head Start programs advancing the practice of quality improvement in early childhood.
All offerings include on-call access to our federal review experts in the months before the review and throughout the monitoring week.
Study Guides
Monitoring Prep Study Guides
$3,000
Our FA1 and FA2 Monitoring Prep Study Guides offer an engaging, practical learning experience for staff at every level of your Head Start program. Designed around the questions, systems, data, and demonstrations that programs typically encounter during federal reviews, each guide helps participants understand not only what reviewers may ask, but what the questions are designed to uncover, what reviewers are listening and looking for, and what the program should be prepared to demonstrate.
The guides can be used individually, in teams, during leadership meetings, data tours, practice sessions, or organization-wide monitoring preparation, making them an interactive tool for connecting everyday practice to program data, and helping staff tell their program’s story clearly and consistently. Rather than encouraging staff to memorize answers, the guides help programs build shared understanding and readiness that extends beyond the monitoring event, to continuing, sustainable operations.
Online
Individualized Training Plus Coaching
$8,300
The learning experience comprises two 2.5-hour sessions on separate days of interactive training on the federal monitoring event. Senior leaders and content area staff will learn what to expect in each monitoring task throughout the federal review period.
The training facilitator, a federal monitoring expert, will lead the program through discussions from pre-planning to review week closeout.
Following the training event, content area leads, senior leadership, governing body members, and parents may elect to participate in one-on-one coaching sessions. The trainer will provide up to 20 hours of individualized coaching in data analysis and help formulate data stories and organizational response planning.
Online or Onsite
Mock Monitoring Review
Pricing Varies
This two-week intensive takes programs through the federal monitoring pre-planning process, review week schedule, monitoring week activities, and daily coaching. It includes one week of onsite activities, classroom and center explorations, teacher and family service staff discussion, governing body and policy council preparation, and more.
Content area leads will review their monitoring data and documentation with a seasoned federal monitoring expert, learning to tell clear data stories. A second week of virtual activities includes fiscal guidance, transaction testing discussions, and fiscal team planning activities.
Pricing will be based on program needs and requirements.
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Tell us which Federal Review resource you are interested in, and we’ll follow up with you to arrange next steps.