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QRIS Standards Learning Table

QRIS Standards Learning Table. Session #5 -- Effective Cross-Sector QRIS: Challenges and Opportunities. Introductions and Updates. Introduce the state team (Name, title, agency) AL CA CT GA HI NV OR VI

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QRIS Standards Learning Table

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  1. QRIS Standards Learning Table Session #5 -- Effective Cross-Sector QRIS: Challenges and Opportunities

  2. Introductions and Updates • Introduce the state team (Name, title, agency) AL CA CT GA HI NV OR VI • Tell us one thing – a success, a challenge, a question – your state team has to share about developing your QRIS since our last call.

  3. Flow of the conversation • Cross-sector QRIS means...which sectors? • Successes • Challenges • Example: New York’s QUALITYstarsNY • Discussion

  4. The many sectors… • Child care centers (regulated) • Family child care homes (regulated) • Head Start programs • Nationally accredited centers and homes • Prekindergarten (state-funded) • SEA approved nursery schools/preschools • Preschool special education programs • Others?

  5. Cross-Sector QRIS Cross-sector QRIS means one that aims for participation by most group early care and education providers, regardless of funding stream or auspice. At a minimum, this includes child care centers and family child care homes, Pre-K and Head Start, i.e., all publically supported and/or licensed settings, but not informal caregivers.  

  6. Comparing QRIS & Sector Features

  7. Relationships Working across sectors is relationship-building. Relationships are built on: • Knowledge of the ‘other’ system (what do they do and how do they do it) • Communication • Respect • Trust

  8. Self-Reflection • Working across systems requires us to reflect on & acknowledge that there are many pathways to better quality • What is the definition of high quality, the approach to promoting CQI, in the various sectors in your state? • How can we trust, build on, incorporate these multiple pathways in the QRIS process?

  9. Reciprocity • Compliance with another sector’s standards ‘counts’ in your QRIS • Documentation from another sector in re certain criteria/standards ‘counts’ in your QRIS • Reciprocity rests on TRUST • Trust the monitoring process, e.g., reliability • Trust the compliance decisions • Trust the other system

  10. Reciprocity Reciprocity could go both ways… Achieving/maintaining a certain level in your QRIS counts in the other sector… • QRIS level required to receive PreK funds • QRIS as the annual self-assessment requirement for Head Start

  11. Challenges: Cross-Sector Standards • Regulation-exempt centers • preKprograms that are part of public or private elementary schools • part-day preschools (stand-alone) • Possible responses • Accept as regulated by another state agency (education) • Create equivalent to regulation • Other?

  12. Challenge: Cross-Sector Support Systems • How do you effectively engage the support systems of other sectors to support their programs to participate in QRIS? • Head Start • Prekindergarten • Early Intervention/preschool special education • Other?

  13. Challenge: Cross-Sector Supports • How do you get coaches/TA providers in each sector to understand your QRIS standards and sources of evidence and work with programs in their sector to meet them? • Head Start • Public schools • How do you extend the expertise of TA in other sectors to share beyond their sector? • Head StartTA is focused on CLASS, how can it be shared? • How do you engage the school-based programs that may be resistant to classroom assessment with the ERS? • What about special education trainers/TA?

  14. Challenges: Cross-Sector Finance • How can we effectively acknowledge the very real differences in resources across sectors? • Is there a pathway that helps policy makers and quality improvement leaders more clearly understand the challenges in each sector, envision a new approach and engage in a collaborative change process?

  15. Challenge: Outreach/engagement of cross-sector partners Systems like early intervention, preschool special education, child welfare, and others • Help them understand QRIS and how it benefits their system/children/families • Consider a range of options, e.g., • Could they prioritize child placements in higher-quality settings? • Could QRIS be part of the monitoring & accountability system for their programs?

  16. Challenges • Are there any other challenges anyone wants to identify before we turn to Ola Friday? • We can discuss them after we hear from New York…

  17. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Standards are inclusive of all types of regulated care • Centers • Family homes • Head Start • UPK • Registered Nursery Schools • Nationally accredited programs and providers • Preschool Special Education programs

  18. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Standard indicators draw from and reflect already established indicators of quality • Head Start Performance Standards • National accreditation standards

  19. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Crosswalks • NAEYC, NAFCC and Head Start alignments • Respect and trust for the established monitoring process • Clear and justifiable exceptions (ERS and Qualifications)

  20. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Other Alignment Activities • NYC Dept. of Education UPK alignment • Overview and detailed alignment reports • Clear, joint messages to field • Regular communication (bi-weekly calls) • Goal: appear aligned, encourage participation, reduce duplication

  21. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Cross Sector Support • Pre School Special Education • Information sessions; conference calls; information sharing • NYC UPK Coaches • Meetings; data verification and sharing

  22. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Challenges • Communication • Data • Accountability

  23. New York QRIS Cross Sector • Lessons Learned and Next Steps • Additional alignment activities • Financing alignment • On-going communication

  24. Questions, Reflections, Comments?

  25. Homework for Final Session Our final webinar will be held on January 31st, jointly with the “revising QRIS” states. Look for SurveyMonkey soon. From your experience of this Learning Table, • What recommendations would you make to other states crafting or revising QRIS to make it more efficient and effective? • What are the big ideas? • What are the pressing challenges? • What are the key remaining questions? • What were your “Aha!”monents? • What are your state’s next steps and how can we help?

  26. Follow up Technical Assistance is available by contacting your state’s Technical Assistance Specialist. Region I -  Katherine.Falen@icfi.com Regions II, III, VIII – Darlene.Hamilton@icfi.com Regions IV, X – Peggy.Ball@icfi.com Regions V – Sheri.Fischer@icfi.com Region VI – Nancy.vonBargen@icfi.com Regions VII, IX – Nina.Johnson@icfi.com

  27. Thank You National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement NCCCQI does not endorse any non-Federal organization, publication, or resource. • Follow-up Contacts: OCCQualityCenter@icfi.com • dmathias@buildinitiative.org • tcamillo@BrightStars.org • anne.walsh.mitchell@gmail.com • louise.stoney@gmail.com • www.qrisnetwork.org • ola.friday@qualitystarsny.org

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