A pre-retirement tribute to her legacy, this blog post features an interview with Anne Mitchell, an early childhood leader for more than three decades who played a key role in the birth and life of QRIS. She offers her thoughts on the beginnings of QRIS, the impact of QRIS on the early childhood systems building movement, and what she sees for the future.
This slide deck is from the session titled Everything You Want to Know About QRIS but Are Afraid to Ask at the 2018 QRIS National Meeting. It focuses on increasing the understanding of QRIS at the national and state levels, exploring common QRIS elements and state approaches, and discussing QRIS trends and innovations.
This PowerPoint Presentation from the 2018 QRIS conference covers the Child Trends Quality Rated Validation Project and case studies from Georgia and Delaware.
The expansion of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds provides an opportunity to invest in a multi-pronged strategy that supports the teachers of our youngest children. This blog post looks at the issues involved in supporting the infant-toddler workforce and offers seven recommendations for moving forward.
States now have a tremendous opportunity to improve their child care assistance policies and make them work better for infants and toddlers and their families, thanks to the historic increase in funding for the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) starting in FY 2018. This blog post outlines strategies for improving state child care subsidy systems.
This research-to-practice brief highlights findings from Child Trends’ study of first-time parents
of young children (under age 3) and their knowledge about parenting and child development.
The brief explores why Head Start and QRIS integration is
meaningful, some emerging issues related to integration, and
the role of Head Start-QRIS integration in addressing equity.
Today’s discussion is a 'call to action' with diverse humanitarian response
teams and federal/state/local child advocates who support preparation,
recovery and equitable outcomes for young children and families when
disaster strikes.
This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS National Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all sessions, sponsors and conference events.
