Raul Yzaguirre Head Start

About Raul Yzaguirre Head Start

Raul Yzaguirre Head Start is a provider of early education and care for the students and families of Houston. As a center-based facility, Raul Yzaguirre Head Start provides the best of a school-like environment, which can help smooth the transition for students to formal school one day in the future, and the best of a community of student peers and professional staff to help inspire and support the learning journey. Centers like Raul Yzaguirre Head Start can benefit students with their resources, opportunities, and activities for enrichment and learning. With a full-time schedule, Raul Yzaguirre Head Start also can provide the care that Houston parents need. Full-time means that students get the best of repeated daily instruction with non-family adults and peers of similar ages. Students will see their development and learning skills grow quickly in an environment that’ll set them up well for the years ahead! Parents get the benefit, too, of enrolling their children in a learning community all the while having the large time blocks to spend at work or on other responsibilities. Raul Yzaguirre Head Start also offers a mixed-age classroom and curriculum which emphasizes open-ended, tactile activities that allow children to explore however that learning activity makes the most sense to them. Mixed-age classrooms like at Raul Yzaguirre Head Start encourage peer learning, asking help from each other and reinforce a sense of empathy for one’s peers. Older students will learn leadership skills and younger students have the advantage of joining a classroom that already has the building blocks of community.