Your Head Start Continuous Quality Improvement Partner
Acorn Evaluation partners with Head Start and Early Head Start grantees throughout the nation to help them become model programs consistent with the new Head Start Program Performance Standards. We provide management consulting, training and technical assistance, data science, and program evaluation services through a dedicated project coordinator and our expert team of professionals, using six month road maps that engage staff and produce results.
What Clients Say
"With Acorn as a partner, we are confident that we are already meeting (and exceeding!) the data analysis and evaluation requirements that will be included in the new Performance Standards. It’s worth your time to meet Acorn and talk with them. A partnership with Acorn will benefit your program just as it has benefited NHA."
Damon Carson
Vice President of Children, Youth, and Family Services, Neighborhood House Association, San Diego, CA
Board Chair of the National Head Start Association
From Our Blog
Head Start Directors: It’s Time for a Partner for Continuous Quality Improvement
New Performance Standards with new Focus Area Two Monitoring Protocols. New criteria for the DRS. New requirements for the PIR. New expectations of your staff Read more
Head Start’s New Monitoring Protocols Show that OHS is Serious about Using Data
When the new Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) were released last year, the word “data” was at center stage. This sent a clear Read more
The Final Rule and You: Early Reactions To The Historic Head Start Performance Standards Announcement
They’re Heeeeeeere! Yesterday was the big day many of us have been anticipating for over a year now: the formal announcement and corresponding delivery of Read more
Better, Not More: Data Quality and the Coming Data Revolution in Head Start
Data… Data… Data… If you are a Head Start manager or director, you have seen this word a lot. You know that the new Performance Read more
