Head Start

Meet the New Head Start Performance Standards with Conscious Discipline!

Early childhood plays a pivotal role in shaping the lives of young children; the years between birth to five the most critical. Reach out to learn how our free plans bolster instructional support, increase teacher retention, cultivate a felt sense of safety by addressing challenging behaviors and more in Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. When you do, you’ll gain free access to the More Than an Intervention: How to Build Sustainability and Create Fidelity recording.

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Conscious Discipline is proud to be a Diamond sponsor at this year’s National Head State Association (NHSA) Conference!

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Increase teacher and staff retention with targeted practices for developing safety and connection.

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Address the rise in challenging behaviors with the creation of a School Family.

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Meet HSPPS with strategies and tools designed to elevate instructional support.

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Strengthen Family Engagement by creating a program-wide, trauma-responsive environment.

Elevate Early Education to Meet the New Head Start Performance Standards with Conscious Discipline

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.

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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!

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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.

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Testimonials

Before introducing Conscious Discipline, 95% of my staff was in survival mode. After implementation, we have finally begun to climb out, hire more staff and the culture has completely changed.

Melissa Carver, Principal Sunshine Center Birth to Three, Independent School District

Head Start serves the children with the greatest need. Most teachers were Head Start children themselves. Because we have that connection, we feel the desire to serve in that capacity -but we as adults need it ourselves, first. That’s the beauty of Conscious Discipline- it starts with me.

Angela Horsfall, Behavior Specialist/Instructional Coach Head Start, Utah

Conscious Discipline is the base for everything we do. We’ve had children that have been expelled from multiple programs before they find us. Through the implementation of Conscious Discipline, these children come into our program, make connections with their teachers, make connections with other children and learn appropriate skills to thrive.

Abbi Kruse, Executive Director and Founder The Playing Field