NCHSA is making a concerted effort to organize the measurement and reporting of child outcomes across North Carolina.  The primary goal is to ensure that every teacher has the tools necessary to understand where a child is in his or her development.  This will allow teachers to adjust the individual learning experiences a child receives to best prepare that child for success in school and in life. 

The second goal is to aggregate this data at various levels (county, state, etc.).  This will not only allow NCHSA to be a better advocate for Head Start by demonstrating that Head Start works, but also to reveal areas in which we can improve our programs.

To accomplish these goals, NCHSA is in partnership with Assessment Technology Inc. to pool data about children’s learning and development and to share it with all programs and the public.  We present this data in what we call a Portrait of Child Outcomes.  The data is in real time, so it will change on a daily basis to reflect where children are in their development at any given point in time.

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