This report summarizes information gathered through interviews with state and national key informants regarding continuous quality improvement in quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS).
QUALITYstarsNY is New York’s quality rating and improvement system that is being implemented in targeted communities with funding from the State Department of Education. The goal of the recruitment project was to recruit suitable applicants for the 2012-2014 implementation of QUALITYstarsNY. Early care and education programs were recruited and selected primarily from communities within and around Persistently Low Achieving public schools.
QUALITYstarsNY is New York’s quality rating and improvement system that is being implemented in targeted communities with funding from the State Department of Education. The QUALITYstarsNY Readiness Project was an early strategy to engage the early care and learning community by making QUALITYstarsNY information available in local communities and preparing programs for future statewide implementation. This was accomplished by training workshop facilitators who then provided multiple workshops within 10 regions of the state.
Mariana Souto-Manning’s article explores ways in which teachers can incorporate young people’s home and community literacy practices into classrooms when such practices vastly differ from the teachers’ literacy experiences.
