• Jose Paz José C. Paz, Head Start Director

    Jose is the director/manager for DPS Head Start and previously a Resource Development Specialist with the Head Start National Center on Cultural & Linguistic Responsiveness, as well as the Head Start Regional Coordinator with the National Head Start Family Literacy Center.

    Specialty supporting PreK-3 child development: Head Start Program, Dual Language Learning, Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness, ECE Presenter to staff and parents, ECE Educational Entertainer with Focus on Social & Emotional Development, and Simulttaneous Interpreter.

    DPS Shared Core Value: FUN. This value can foster essential aspects of early childhood education for both children and adults including play, trust, passion, confidence, truth, learning and other positive principles that can last a lifetime.

     Favorite children’s book: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

    Contact José C. Paz at jose_paz@dpsk12.org