Denise Polanco-Nieves was Program Director at Astoria Blue Feather School during the whole audit period. She is currently Principal at the same school. Denise explained her role and responsibilities as Program Director as follows:
Supervise and oversight of the program to make sure environment is safe for the children.
Communicate directly with the Policy Council to meet the standards of head start program. The policy council is a committee consist of different members including parents and community representatives. The main members of council were President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasury, Class parents and community representative. Denise appointed the community representative. The role of policy council is similar to PTA. The council …show more content…
Some outside providers conducted trainings (sensory, visual support) in school as well as several trainings provided to staff at main office.
School also train parents about the transition from preschool to kindergarten. Susan Kandoff (Social Services and Mental Health Coordinator) hold meetings with parent to educate them about the transition and needs of the kids. Susan has two family assistants, who are school employees. Susan and family assistant visited families of the children twice a year to help them with issues like finding housing or ESL classes etc.
Classroom number six was a special class and not a head start class during the audit years. They had five integrated and one special class during the audit years. School did not provide related services to the children. Denise said they might have one 1:1 aide (for safety of the kid) during the three audit years. The name of the 1:1 aide is Nermin Dahi, who worked from Feb-Aug of 2015. Program hours were 8:00 am to 4:00 pm except for classroom staff. The classroom staff work hours were 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. School did not provide any extended or regular day care services. In addition, no evaluation services provided during the audit
Supervise and oversight of the program to make sure environment is safe for the children.
Communicate directly with the Policy Council to meet the standards of head start program. The policy council is a committee consist of different members including parents and community representatives. The main members of council were President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasury, Class parents and community representative. Denise appointed the community representative. The role of policy council is similar to PTA. The council …show more content…
Some outside providers conducted trainings (sensory, visual support) in school as well as several trainings provided to staff at main office.
School also train parents about the transition from preschool to kindergarten. Susan Kandoff (Social Services and Mental Health Coordinator) hold meetings with parent to educate them about the transition and needs of the kids. Susan has two family assistants, who are school employees. Susan and family assistant visited families of the children twice a year to help them with issues like finding housing or ESL classes etc.
Classroom number six was a special class and not a head start class during the audit years. They had five integrated and one special class during the audit years. School did not provide related services to the children. Denise said they might have one 1:1 aide (for safety of the kid) during the three audit years. The name of the 1:1 aide is Nermin Dahi, who worked from Feb-Aug of 2015. Program hours were 8:00 am to 4:00 pm except for classroom staff. The classroom staff work hours were 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. School did not provide any extended or regular day care services. In addition, no evaluation services provided during the audit