A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Santa Clara County Office of Education Head Start Program
Franklin-McKinley School District
Center for Educational Planning

What is the goal of the project?

To sustain the gains of Head Start participation and help children and families make a successful transition to elementary school by extending the Head Start model of developmentally appropriate education, health, social services, and parent involvement into the early elementary grades of public school.

Who participates in the project?

Children and their families from kindergarten through second grade in 12 classes in two schools. The vast majority of the children come from low-income families; a large portion of the families are immigrants. Approximately 360 children are served at any given time. The ethnic breakdown is 72 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Cambodian, 10 percent Vietnamese, 1 percent African American, and 2 percent other.

What services are provided?

• Education
  
• Health care
  
• Dental care
  
• Mental health care
  
• Social services and case management
  
• Parent involvement
  
• English as a Second Language (ESL) program

How are collaborators evaluating their success?

• Classroom observations
  
• Interviews
  
• Case studies

What are the collaborators learning?

• Parents want to be involved in their children's education and are much more likely to be when the school can respond to their linguistic and cultural needs.

• Teachers want to provide developmentally and culturally appropriate education for their children and are more likely to when they have appropriate training, materials, and support.

• The development of an ongoing, sustainable collaboration takes commitment, communication, and years.

Contact person

Don Bolce
Head Start Santa Clara County Office of Education
100 Skyport Drive, MC #225
San Jose, CA 95110
(408) 453-6547 (Phone)
(408) 453-6894 (Fax)

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