🏫 Environment
Arrange materials, spaces, and learning centers so children can explore, communicate, make choices, and practice emerging skills.
HEAD START • CLASSROOM PRACTICE
🏫 Classroom Implementation
Connect Head Start and ELOF expectations to classroom environments, routines, learning experiences, interactions, and intentional teaching.
CLASSROOM PRACTICE
Turn Frameworks Into Experiences
Use classroom routines, environments, interactions, and learning experiences as opportunities to support children's development.
🧩 Experiences
Plan developmentally appropriate experiences that respond to children's interests and developmental needs.
💬 Interactions
Use responsive interactions, conversations, modeling, questioning, and encouragement to extend children's learning.
🔄 Routines
Use everyday routines and transitions as meaningful opportunities for learning, independence, relationships, and communication.