Quality Counts Overview
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Quality Counts is Miami-Dade County's Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) which measures and improves the quality of early childhood education programs. A QRIS aims to identify current quality levels and provide support to increase quality. Quality Counts assigns star ratings to programs based on evidence-based quality standards to help families identify high-quality options. It seeks to develop high-quality early education through voluntary participation and incentives while providing families an easy tool to recognize quality programs.
Quality Counts Overview
- 1. Quality Counts Miami-Dade County’s Quality Rating & Improvement System (QRIS)
- 2. What is a QRIS? • QRIS is a way to measure, identify, and improve the quality in early care and education settings • QRIS is a nationwide movement to look at and improve quality care for young children
- 3. Why do we need QRIS? • QRIS has expanded dramatically across the U.S. in the past decade because: • research has found a link between high-quality early experiences and positive outcomes for children • few early care and education programs in the U.S. are high quality
- 4. Quality Counts is Miami-Dade’s QRIS • measures the quality of early care and education (ECE) programs using several evidence-based standards of quality • identifies ECE programs’ current level of quality • provides supports to improve ECE programs’ level of quality • gives families an easy way of understanding quality by using a Star rating system
- 5. What are the goals of Quality Counts? 1. To develop high quality early care and education for our children through the voluntary participation 2. To improve quality through supports and incentives 3. To provide families with an easy-to-use tool to recognize quality
- 6. How does Quality Counts improve quality? • Supports available to ECE programs can include: – technical assistance – professional development – career advising – incentive grants and awards – system building – accreditation assistance
- 7. How do I know if a program is high quality? • ECE programs in Quality Counts will get a Star Rating according to several evidence-based standards of quality. • Ratings range from Star 1 to Star 5. • All Star Ratings are posted on the Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe’s website.
- 8. Find More Information: ELC website www.elcmdm.org/qualitycounts QC Provider Portal www.miamiqualitycounts.org
- 9. Have Questions? Need Help? Contact us! Email: qualitycounts@elcmdm.org Phone: 305-646-7242