High-quality child care helps children get ready for success in kindergarten and beyond. Yet child care quality varies considerably around Washington.
Early Achievers, Washington’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS), is Washington’s voluntary program for helping early learning programs offer high-quality care. Early Achievers:
- Connects families to child care and early learning programs with the help of an easy-to-understand rating system (available in 2013).
- Offers coaching and resources for child care providers to support each child’s learning and development. Research shows this kind of assistance helps providers improve the quality of their programs. And when more young children are ready for school, we all benefit.
Early Achievers is coming to your area!
DEL is excited to announce statewide expansion of Early Achievers. DEL is partnering with Child Care Aware Washington and the University of Washington to offer Early Achievers statewide.
Early Achievers, Washington's quality rating and improvement system, is a voluntary, no-cost program that gives participating child care professionals access to coaching, professional development and a tangible way to demonstrate their commitment to providing quality care and education for young children.
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The following resources and templates are referenced in the Early Achievers Quality Standards.
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Early Achievers, Washington's quality rating and improvement system, is a tool that helps parents and families evaluate how early learning programs are preparing children to succeed.
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Child care providers who were part of the Seeds to Success field test are voluntarily participating in the updated QRIS as an early adopter July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.
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