Head Start's 8th National Research Conference — Serving Children Through Partnership and Collaboration
June 26, 2006 (All day) to June 28, 2006 (All day)
Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
HSRC8 reaffirmed the importance of partnerships and collaborations to serve children in an era of standards and accountability. Within this theme, the conference emphasized social and cultural context and the multiple competencies that children must master to succeed in school and later life. The conference emphasized research that leads to evidence-based practice, measurable outcomes, and innovative implementation strategies. In addition to student programming initiated in Conference 7, highlighted poster sessions of ACF graduate student grantees were presented.
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- Opening Session: Health and Education: Scientific Evidence Supports Head Start’s Comprehensive Approach to Promoting Children’s (45.94 KB)
- Student-Mentor Networking Roundtable (13.06 KB)
- Plenary Session I: Discussion of the Head Start Impact Study Year 1 Findings (49.39 KB)
- Tribute to Mentors: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Harold W. Stevenson, and Sheldon H. “Shep” White (31.3 KB)
- Plenary Session II: Partnerships and Collaborations: Head Start, Child Care, and Prekindergarten (58.99 KB)
- Plenary Session III: Promoting Resilient Children: Practical Applications from Research (99.53 KB)
- Closing Session: Reflections of the History of Head Start Research (47.71 KB)
- American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Research Center: Research and Training Opportunities (21.64 KB)
- Enhancing School Readiness: The Head Start Quality Research Center Studies (2001-2006) (50.39 KB)
- The Early Head Start Landscape: A Profile of Program Services and Management Practices (37.4 KB)
- What Makes a Difference? Early Head Start, Head Start, and More: The Cumulative Effects of Program Participation, Birth to 5, on (93.19 KB)
- Child Outcomes Findings from the Head Start Impact Study and Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) (57.67 KB)
- The Child Outcomes Research Support Consortia: How an Ecological Systems Model of Development Can Frame a Research Strategy Rela (113.88 KB)
- Program Quality and Services Findings From the Head Start Impact Study and Family and Child Experiences Survey (75.25 KB)
- Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers in Early Head Start: Findings from the Early Promotion and Intervention (82.15 KB)
- New Measures Coming Soon: Early Head Start/Head Start University Partnerships for Measurement Development Projects (101.69 KB)
- CONVERSATION HOUR: Outcomes, Accountability, and Young Children With Disabilities: Where Are We? (23.23 KB)
- Health Status, Health Care Services, and Disabilities in Low-Income Children: Findings From Early Head Start and the National Ea (29.31 KB)
- Journey through Early Head Start, Early Intervention, and Beyond (35.5 KB)
- Universal Prekindergarten Research and Evaluation: The Impact of Political Culture and Classroom Composition on Standards and Ou (19.43 KB)
- POSTER SYMPOSIUM: The Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER) Program: Cross-Site and Site Specific Findings (28.45 KB)
- WORKSHOP 1: Designing Assessments (22.47 KB)
- WORKSHOP 2: Learning from Assessment: Models of Program-Research Partnership in Using Child Outcomes to Improve Practice (36.83 KB)
- Putting Head Start Research Into Action: How to Use the Findings From Three Major National Studies to Improve Program and Child (65.44 KB)
- Head Start in an Era of Standards and Accountability (40.28 KB)
- POSTER SYMPOSIUM: Early Head Start Risk (86.57 KB)
- Building Evidence Based Practice Through Program Research Partnerships in Early Head Start (28.59 KB)
- WORKSHOP 3: Research Opportunities Using Longitudinal Data From the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (10.46 KB)
- The Impact of Environmental Injustice on Children’s Well Being (37.56 KB)
- MASTER LECTURE: The History of Vaccines and Immunization: Familiar Patterns, New Challenges (27.77 KB)
- Implications for the Drug-Endangered Child (DEC) in Head Start (45.32 KB)
- Young Children with Special Health Care Needs: Practice and Policy in the 21st Century (47.24 KB)
- Childhood Overweight: What Practitioners Should Know About Antecedents and Effective Interventions (55.99 KB)
- MASTER LECTURE: What You Should Know About Children’s Sleep (52.84 KB)
- MASTER WORKSHOP: Identifying and Responding to the Needs of the Drug-Endangered Child (28.19 KB)
- Language and Literacy in Preschool Children (49.51 KB)
- Language, Literacy, and Social-Emotional Development: A More Complete Portrait of Early School Readiness (25.08 KB)
- Young Children’s Development in the Context of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (62.13 KB)
- Early Literacy and Early Numeracy: Building Collaborations and Partnerships (19.8 KB)
- Language, Cognition, and Context: Multiple Dimensions of Early Bilingual Development (27.43 KB)
- Developing New Outcome Measures With Program Partners: Process, Procedures, Practicalities (29.5 KB)
- Measuring Readiness of Head Start Children (44.84 KB)
- Furthering our Understanding of Play to Promote Competencies in Head Start Children (44.43 KB)
- Policy, Early Care Settings, and the School Readiness of Low-Income Children (20.55 KB)
- Evaluation and Accountability for School Readiness Initiatives in States and Cities: The Cases of First 5 California and the Kid (30.96 KB)
- A System of Mental Health Service Delivery Models in Prekindergarten (52.05 KB)
- Attachment and Adult-Child Relationships: Contributions to Children’s Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Competences (51.8 KB)
- Young Children and Interpersonal Violence: Experiences, Consequences, and Recommendations for Intervention (54.26 KB)
- Preparing and Coping With Disasters Involving Children in Early Childhood Settings (42.3 KB)
- Noncognitive Factors in Child Development (39.68 KB)
- Improving Early Social-Emotional Relationships: The St. Petersburg ( Russian Federation) Orphanage Intervention Project (30.64 KB)
- Identifying, Assessing, and Intervening with Challenging Behavior in Head Start Children (65.03 KB)
- The Development of Young Children in Immigrant Families: Contextual and Intervention Effects (35.52 KB)
- Migrant Head Start Issues (48.19 KB)
- CONVERSATION HOUR: Conversation with the Editors (9.58 KB)
- A First Look at Young Parents and Potential Risk Indicators of Negative Parenting and Child Neglect (29.29 KB)
- Theoretical Approach to Understanding Father Involvement: Testing a Model (27.1 KB)
- In Their Own Voices (22.52 KB)
- Professional Development Partnerships (30.11 KB)
- Training and Technical Assistance: What Supports Staff Development and Program Improvement? (34.35 KB)
- Assessment/Diagnosis I (51.05 KB)
- Assessment/Diagnosis II (38.99 KB)
- Bilingual Programs and Issues (24.36 KB)
- Child Care (64.97 KB)
- Child Development (32.84 KB)
- Child Health (85.59 KB)
- Classroom Characteristics and Quality (31.3 KB)
- Cognitive Development (55.99 KB)
- Curriculum Development (42.6 KB)
- Early Childhood Intervention and Early Education (76.21 KB)
- Early Intervention (27.34 KB)
- Evaluation Studies and Methods (55.53 KB)
- Family Functioning, Systems and Adult Development (34.39 KB)
- Family Literacy (38.86 KB)
- Head Start Graduate Student Research Grantees (175.58 KB)
- International (18.81 KB)
- Literacy and Language Development/Delay (112.97 KB)
- Mental Health Models/Interventions/Curricula (24.48 KB)
- Methods and Measurement Development (110.92 KB)
- Multicultural Issues (124.17 KB)
- Nutrition (45.61 KB)
- Parental Depression (42.39 KB)
- Parenting/Parent – Child Relationship (102.34 KB)
- Parent Involvement (155.68 KB)
- Partnerships and Collaborations I (42.98 KB)
- Partnerships and Collaborations II (43.64 KB)
- Resilience/Risk (103.56 KB)
- School Readiness and Transition to School (44.41 KB)
- Social/Emotional Development (204.41 KB)
- Staff Development and Training (194.21 KB)
- Teacher – Child Relationship (124.39 KB)
- Technology (27.43 KB)
- Universal Prekindergarten (27 KB)
- Welfare Reform (18.23 KB)
- Head Start's Eighth National Research Conference: Acknowledgements (33.12 KB)
- Head Start's Eighth National Research Conference: Peer Reviewers (53.74 KB)
- Head Start's Eighth National Research Conference: Directory of Participants (481.75 KB)