Special Projects

We create inclusive learning environments that honor the diverse aspirations and cultures of the communities we serve, empowering young children to thrive.

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Teacher coaching
• Teaching practices, curriculum, and assessment training
• Teacher success rubric implementation
• Child assessment analysis

By engaging families and communities as partners, we accelerate child and family outcomes, respecting their aspirations and cultural values to create lasting positive change.

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Capacity building for high-quality family engagement
• Staff onboarding and coaching
• Family partnership and goal-setting processes and tools
• Health compliance systems and practices development
• ERSEA compliance and strategy implementation

We develop efficient and effective business, administrative, and operational support services to enable high-quality early childhood education programs and systems.

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Human resources business process design and mapping
• Job fair and interview event planning
• Facilities assessment
• 1303 application
• Construction planning and contract management
• Budget analysis

We harness data to design inclusive, evidence-based approaches that unlock potential and promote achievement and lifelong success.

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Data collection, analysis, and reporting
• Community needs assessment
• Program assessment

We cultivate strong leadership capacities, inspiring early childhood professionals to lead with a commitment to inclusivity, anti-bias practices, and excellence, driving impactful change.

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Onboarding 
• Short-term leadership staffing

Our comprehensive support services ensure that early childhood programs and systems meet compliance requirements, and embrace inclusivity, excellence, and equity, leading to improved outcomes for children and families.

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Monitoring and federal monitoring reviews
• Strategic planning
• Enrollment reduction
• Policy and procedure development
• Governance and organizational design
• Startup and launch support

We support the design and delivery of comprehensive strategies to secure funding, empowering organizations to drive positive change in early childhood education and support the inherent potential of young children. 

Examples of services we can provide for short-terms projects include:

• Grant strategy development
• Project planning
• Criteria checking

We recognize a deep need to support facilities projects (finding new facilities, rehabbing current facilities, completing 1303 applications, project managing the post-approval project, etc.).  In the past 17 years, our Shine facilities team has done over 30 facilities projects, including 13 total gut renovations — and we are eager to support others in bringing best in class facilities to Head Start children.

Examples of facilities services that we can provide fall into three phases:

• 1303 Application Assistance
• Post-1303 Approval/Pre-Construction Management
• Post-1301 Construction Phase/Construction Management

We teamed up with former Office of Head Start expert Belinda Rinker and Alan Baquet to create a series of videos designed to help with planning and preparing for the Part 1303 application process.  Check out this introductory video and fill out the “Contact Us’ form below for info on and access to the full series.