Head Start
Transform Your Centers and Communities with Conscious Discipline
Partner with us to create regulated and resilient classrooms for Head Start learners and staff.
CD + Head Start =THE BEST START
Head Start strengthens families and supports children’s well-being. Conscious Discipline’s adults-first approach builds self-regulation, safety, and belonging—boosting cognitive skills, reducing challenging behaviors, and improving teacher retention. Together, whole communities thrive. Contact us to access free starter plans and the More Than an Intervention: How to Build Sustainability and Create Fidelity recording.
Improve Child Outcomes and Family Engagement
Increase Teacher Satisfaction and Retention
Initiate a School-Wide Culture of Safety, Connection and Problem-Solving
Tangible Support for Early Childhood and Head Start Teachers
Sustainable Leadership
Create Trauma-Responsive Environments That Lead to Lasting Change with Conscious Discipline
Conscious Discipline is an award-winning, trauma-responsive, adult-first practice. Implementation in Head Start and Early Head Start Programs boost CLASS scores, sustain instructional support, strengthen family engagement and transforms climate and culture from the inside out.
Our Unique Approach to Head Start and Early Head Start Children and Families
Brain State Model: The science behind what behavior is communicating.
Integrated Learning: The embedded practice within routines, rituals and structures.
Sustainable Leadership & Staff Wellness: Tools to support adults and children.
Proven Results: Long-term changes in retention, behavior and climate and culture.
- Addresses behavior as communication and develops missing skills
- Integrates into all aspects of classroom and center life
- Adults-First Focus: “We cannot teach what we cannot do ourselves.”
- 25+ years of documented success
- Punishes or rewards behavior without developing skills or intrinsic motivation
- Isolated lessons without integration
- Child-focused: resulting in unsustainable culture changes without a supported leadership framework.
- Limited data and research on efficacy and fidelity
The Right Tools, The Right Support
Hands-on live sessions that build stronger relationships through immersive, expert-led (Endorsed facilitator?) instruction.
Hands-on virtual sessions that build core capabilities through immersive, expert-led instruction.
Individualized support to unlock potential, overcome challenges, and accelerate growth.
Program that helps embed practices that elevate leadership and student outcomes.
Hands-on live sessions that build stronger relationships through immersive, expert-led instruction.
CD Now is our brand new micro learning, yearly subscription library designed to compliment and integrate Conscious Discipline in a way that fits into any busy schedule- even yours.
The Conscious Discipline Parent Education Curriculum is a comprehensive guide for engaging families as partners in building healthy, brain-smart homes that support children’s growth and development.
Conscious Discipline’s Parent Education Curriculum (CD PEC) has achieved a research-based designation. With this designation, CD PEC meets the parent curriculum requirements outlined by the Office of Head Start.
Packed with practical knowledge and video examples, this webinar is a great starting point for parents and educators hoping for more cooperation and less conflict with young children.
Mr. Chazz applies his brand of charisma, humor and insight to important topics in both education and parenting.
Melissa McComb, the Director of Special Education in the Litchfield Elementary School District, talks about her district’s experience with moving from a points system to skills tracking.
With Conscious Discipline, we foster a willingness to resolve conflicts by building a School Family.
Migrant farmworkers in the United States face many unique challenges. Naturally, working with these families and their children presents unique challenges as well.
2020 Teachers’ Choice Awards Professional Development Winner from Learning Magazine!
The Active Calming Center guides children through nine physical and mental tasks that help them calm down and cooperate.
Teach children strategies for self-control, and you’ll be amazed how quickly they learn to manage intense emotions.
Learn how to reduce the stress of out-of-home care and utilize attachment, attunement and social play to wire the brain for optimal development.
The Power of Head Start and Conscious Discipline Together
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Conscious Discipline is an adult-first, trauma responsive methodology that integrates resilience, self-regulation, healthy school culture and brain-based discipline practices that foster the critical skills necessary for early childhood development.
The implementation of Conscious Discipline practices in Head Start and Early Head Start Programs boosts CLASS scores, strengthens instructional support, empowers parents for healthier family engagement and positively impacts site and program-wide climate and culture.
Conscious Discipline utilizes the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model, the Seven Powers for Conscious Adults, the School Family and the Seven Skills of Discipline to transform the educational culture and adult mindset before seeking to implement directly with students. This approach fosters trust and emotional security, creating a learning environment in which resilience, social skills, growth and achievement thrive. Its practices directly apply to teachers, coaches, family engagement staff, mental health staff and leadership in Head Start and Early Head Start programs via onsite training, coaching, virtual courses, webinars and podcasts.
With a 25+ year history, Conscious Discipline enjoys a level of fieldwork few programs can match. It is designated a “SELect program,” the highest ranking in CASEL’s Guide to Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs. The CASEL Guide identifies well-designed, evidence-based programs implemented with students from pre-K through 12th grade that are “appropriate for broad dissemination to schools across the United States.” In a Harvard analysis of the nation’s top 25 social and emotional learning programs, the study’s authors said, “Conscious Discipline provides an array of behavior management strategies and classroom structures teachers can use to turn everyday situations into learning opportunities.” Conscious Discipline scored the highest possible score in 8 of the 10 categories in the study.
District plans create meaningful change across multiple schools to create a unified approach to transformation. Our district-level partners experience personalized care tailored to size, needs, vision and funding. Over the course of your deepening relationship with Conscious Discipline, you will see district-wide wellness increase, problem behaviors decrease, teacher confidence and satisfaction rise, achievement soar, and the responsibility for continuing education shift from our Instructors to your onsite school staff.
Our plans include a combination of onsite training and coaching, virtual support, eLearning, classroom implementation tools, and access to nationwide Institutes, conferences and subject-specific 2-day events. Our Partner Development Team is well-versed in serving districts of all sizes, and our plans can be scaled for as few as one or as many as 10 new schools to enter the plan each year. Register for your free More Than an Intervention webinar and begin the discovery process with our knowledgeable Partner Development Team today!
Conscious Discipline’s plans, events and implementation tools align with current available grants and funding objectives for Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. Our multidisciplinary approach positively impacts goals that include but are not limited to:
- Improving adult mental health and well-being
- Establishing positive learning environments for all children
- Bolstering family engagement
- Offering mental health and emotional support programs for staff such as Education Manager, Health Manager, ERSEA Manager, HR Manager, Family Engagement Manager, Fiscal Manager, Mental Health/Disabilities Manager, Head Start Director and Executive Director positions.
Our experienced Partner Development Team can assist you in personalized multi-year plans that maximize the impact of grant funding within your agency. Reach out today for more information.
For notice of Head Start Program specific funding from the Office of Head Start, click here.
For the direct link for grant application, visit here.
- Basic Parent Education Pack
- Standard Parent Education Pack
- Basic Parent Education Pack with Digital Music Download
- Standard Parent Education Pack with Music Download
- Premium Parent Education Pack with Music Download
- Parent Education Curriculum Assessment
- Baby Doll Circle Time Bundle
- Six Weeks of Success: Conscious Discipline Implementation for PreSchool and Early Elementary
- The NEW Conscious Discipline Book – Expanded & Updated
- E-course for Conscious Discipline: Building Resilient Schools and Homes
- Creating the School Family
- Podcast: Conscious Discipline Implementation at a Migrant Head Start Program
- Podcast: Knox County Head Start is Building Bright Futures for Young Children and Their Families
- Podcast: Inspiring Other to Create Change Through Conscious Coaching
- Baby Doll Circle Time Parent Letter
- Baby Doll Circle Time Parent Letter (Spanish)
- Handling Frustration Letters
- Head Start Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework
- Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework Alignment
- Head Start Teaching Practices and Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Alignment
- How Conscious Discipline Compares to Other Programs
- Tips for the Top
- PreK – 5th Grade Implementation Guide
- Infant/Toddler Implementation Guide
- Products for a Successful Implementation
- e-DECA assessment
- e-DECA webinar
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/resources/crosswalk-how-conscious-discipline-and-flip-it-partner-to-support-self-regulation/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/resources/head-start-early-learning-outcomes-framework/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/resources/head-start-teaching-practices-and-classroom-assessment-scoring-system-class/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/resources/head-start-parent-family-and-community-engagement-framework/
- Creative Curriculum Alignment
- High Scope Preschool Curriculum Alignment
- High Scope Infant Toddler Curriculum Alignment
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/parent-education-curriculum-designated-research-based/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/conscious-discipline-parent-education-curriculum-results-published-in-peer-reviewed-journal/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/conscious-discipline-parenting-education-curriculum-yields-positive-outcomes/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/parenting-education-curriculum-leads-to-improved-parenting-skills/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/conscious-discipline-meets-with-head-start-leadership/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/teachstone-highlights-conscious-discipline-as-compatible-with-class-use-in-head-start-agencies/
- https://consciousdiscipline.com/preschoolers-see-the-best-in-others/
Our Early Learning Impact
Melissa Carver, Principal of Sunshine Center Birth to Three, Independent School District
Our Customized Solutions for Centers, Schools and Agencies
Training and Workshops for Early Childhood and Head Start Educators
Conscious Leadership Program
Center and Agency-Wide Implementation Plans
Upcoming Live & Virtual Events
- Establish connections with like-minded educators all over the nation.
- Deepen your knowledge and practice with hands-on tips and tools for direction implementation.
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Alignment for Conscious Discipline and Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)
Head Start Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does Conscious Discipline Align with the National Head Start Program Performance Standards?
Yes! Here’s a brief overview of how Conscious Discipline aligns with HSPPS:
1. Education and Child Development Services (1302 Subpart C)
- Curriculum Alignment
Conscious Discipline meets Head Start’s requirement for research-based curricula that promote social-emotional development and school readiness. It integrates: - Learning Environment
Creates trauma-responsive, emotionally safe classrooms that support positive behavior and reduce suspension/expulsion, aligning with HSPPS goals for inclusion and mental health.
2. Social and Emotional Development
- Conscious Discipline directly supports Head Start domains:
- Approaches to Learning: Emotional and behavioral self-regulation, initiative, curiosity, and creativity.
- Social Relationships: Builds secure relationships with adults and peers through the School Family model.
3. Family and Community Engagement (1302 Subpart E)
- Parent Education Curriculum
Aligns with the Head Start Parent, Family & Community Engagement Framework by:
4. Mental Health and Well-being (1302.45)
- Provides tools for adult self-regulation and stress management, fostering resilience and reducing challenging behaviors.
- Supports trauma-informed practices required by HSPPS. [consciousd…ipline.com]
5. Professional Development
- Offers training for teachers and administrators to meet Head Start standards for staff development and program quality improvement.
6. Inclusion and Individualization
- Conscious Discipline strategies adapt for children with disabilities and diverse needs, supporting full participation as required by HSPPS.
What training and resources are available for Head Start specific educators and staff?
We offer a variety of professional development options, including on-site workshops, virtual training, and self-paced courses. These resources equip educators with practical strategies for creating emotionally safe classrooms, reducing challenging behaviors, and fostering positive relationships. Additionally, our approach includes tools for family engagement, ensuring consistency between home and school.
How does Conscious Discipline support family engagement and parent education?
Family engagement is central to Conscious Discipline. Our Parent Education Curriculum provides caregivers with strategies to manage stress, model self-regulation, and build strong connections with their children. This alignment with Head Start’s Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework helps families become active partners in their child’s learning and emotional growth.