Responding to Persistent Challenging Behavior as a Leader
This webinar explores ways education managers help education staff provide individualized positive behavior support to ensure a healthy learning environment for all.
Reflective Supervision
Reflective supervision involves a process where supervisors support staff members in exploring and understanding their feelings, reactions, and experiences related to their work. Through reflection, professionals gain insight into their practice, enhancing their effectiveness to support families and children.
This collection features resources to learn about and implement reflective supervision in early childhood programs.
Using the 5Rs to Be a Champion for Coaches
Learn how education managers can use the 5Rs for Early Learning Leaders to identify and plan professional development for coaches.
The 5Rs for Early Learning Leaders: Embedding Reflective Dialogue
Explore how to embed reflective dialogue in conversations with education staff. Discover how reflective dialogue promotes a culture of inquiry, awareness, data-informed decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Reflection and Planning Tool for Partnering with Families Experiencing Homelessness
Use this tool to reflect on your program’s relationship-building practices and plan for next steps in supporting families experiencing homelessness.
Supporting Professionals Who Support Families: The Parallel Process
Consider how you might enhance what you already do to partner with families experiencing homelessness. Use this tool to reflect on your program’s relationship-building practices and plan for the next steps in supporting families experiencing homelessness.
The Many Roles of the Home-Based Supervisor
Learn about the pivotal role supervisors play in a Head Start or Early Head Start program with a home-based option. Explore ways they enhance the quality of home visiting and group socialization services.
Supporting Home Visitors
Find ways supervisors support home visitors through challenging situations. Learn how they help manage relationships and promote positive outcomes for children and families.
Guidance for Supervisors: Using a Strengths-Based Approach
Supervisors and Managers can use this resource as a guide to support staff in using a strengths-based approach in their work with families.
Using Reflective Supervision to Build Capacity
Hear from Dr. Sherryl Scott Heller about how reflective supervision can be used to build reflective capacity for education staff and improve program quality and practice.
Tips on Becoming a Reflective Supervisor and a Reflective Supervisee
Meet Sam and Janine. Both are new to reflective supervision. Sam is a new director and Janine is a new home visitor. Each has questions about how reflective supervision works. The information sheet for supervisors shows Sam thinking about steps she needs to take to become a good supervisor. The information sheet for supervisees shares questions Janine has about reflective supervision.