New Directions Early Head Start
Curriculum
Curriculum provides guidance and strategies for supporting children’s development and learning, building responsive relationships, and partnering with families.
New Directions Early Head Start uses research-based curricula that recognize every child develops at their own pace. Our curriculum is flexible and individualized, allowing staff to build on each child’s strengths, interests, developmental progress, and family goals.
Home Visiting Curriculum
Home visitors use The Parents as Teachers Curriculum: Born to Learn as the primary curriculum.
Partners for a Healthy Baby—Home Visiting Curriculum for Expectant Families and New Families is used as a supplemental curriculum to ensure that all Head Start program components are addressed during home visits.
Together, these evidence-based curricula help families support learning through everyday routines while reinforcing parents and caregivers as their child’s first and most important teachers.
Center-Based Curriculum
Teachers in our center-based classrooms use The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos, a comprehensive, research-based curriculum that supports children’s development through exploration, responsive relationships, and meaningful play experiences.
The curriculum is designed to support children’s social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematics development while recognizing that every child learns and develops at their own pace.
Teachers use ongoing observations and each child’s interests to plan engaging learning experiences that encourage curiosity, problem-solving, communication, and positive relationships.
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