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Parent Aware
A Quality Rating System
• What is Parent Aware?
• Voluntary Rating Tool
• Identifies, recognize, and celebrates
quality in early education
• Designed by professional, child care
providers and parents
Pilot Program
• Parent Aware began as a privately
funded pilot project in July of 2007
• Purpose: to address the fact that
in Minnesota, today nearly half of
children arrive at kindergarten
underprepared.
Pilot Program
• Included:
oLicensed child care providers
(center and home based)
oEarly educators
• Locations:
oBlue Earth and Nicollet Counties
oCity of St. Paul
oAreas of North Minneapolis
oAreas of Wayzata
Expansion
• Minnesota Received: Race To The
Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTTELC)
• “The Race to the Top-Early Learning
Challenge takes a holistic approach
to early education, promotes
innovation, and focuses on what it
takes to help put young children on
the path of learning, opportunity, and
success.” Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of
Health and Human Services
Expansion
• RTT-ELC Grant Key
o Aligning and raising standards for existing
early learning and development
programs
o Improving training and support for the
early learning workforce through
evidence-based practices
o Building robust evaluation systems that
promote effective practices and
programs to help parents make informed
decisions.
Expansion
Expansion:
• Starts in 2012
• Continues to
add counties
each year
• Entire state by
2015
Mission
• Parent Aware wants all Minnesota
children to be ready for
kindergarten
• How: By providing free, researchbased tools, and resources that
help parents ask important
questions and make informed
choices about high quality early
learning opportunities
Partners
• Minnesota Department of Human
Services
• Minnesota Early Learning Foundation
• Minnesota Child Care Resource &
Referral Network
• Minnesota Department of Education
• Child Trends
• University of Minnesota’s Center for
Early Education and Development
• Wilder Research
• United Way
Why
Participate
• Parent Aware:
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Process
• Visit: http://www.parentawareratings.org/
• Contact: Child Care Resource and
Referral Agency at
http://mnchildcare.org/
• Attend: Information meeting and
Orientation Meeting
• Receive: Coaching, training,
rating, marketing tools
Process
• Accelerated Process if Accredited
• Accreditations that are eligible for Four
Stars Earned:
o The National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC)
o The Council on Accreditation (COA)
o The National Early Childhood Program
Accreditation (NECPA)
o The American Montessori Society (AMS)
o The Association Montessori International
(AMI)
Components
• Points awarded in the following
areas:
• Learning environment and curriculum
• Adult/child interaction
• Staff/provider education
• Tracking child progress (assessment)
• Children’s health and safety
• Family partnerships
Components
• Learning environment and
curriculum
o Use a curriculum aligned with the
Early Childhood Indicators of
Progress or Birth-3 Indicators of
Progress in all classrooms
o Full list of aligned curricula listed on
website for Infant - Toddler and
Prekindergarten
Components
• Common aligned curricula
o Bank Street Developmental Interaction
Approach
o Creative Curriculum
• Family Child Care
• Preschool
• Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
o The High Scope
• Preschool Curriculum
• Infant/Toddler Curriculum
o Montessori
Components
• Adult/child interaction
o Classroom Assessment Scoring
System (CLASS)
o Goal of CLASS
• Positive Climate
• Concept Development
Components
• Tracking child progress (Assessment)
• Conducted at lease twice a year
• Assess all areas of the Early Childhood
Indicators of Progress or Birth-3
Indicators of Progress in all classrooms
• Aligned assessment available of
website
Components
• Common aligned assessments
o High/Scope
• Infant-Toddler Child Observation Record
• Preschool Child
o Observation Record
o The Ounce Scale
o Teaching Strategies-Gold Assessment
o Work Sampling System
Components
• Staff/provider education
• Educational level
• Special trainings
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Health and Wellness
Special needs children
Developmental areas
Cultures and socioeconomic levels
differences
Components
• Children’s health and safety
• Examples:
• Supporting families needs in areas of
medical assistance
• Public health services
• Consultants
Components
• Family Partnerships
o Child Care Assistance Program
o Minnesota Family Investment Program
o Medical assistance
o Public health services
o Bridge to Benefits –
https//mn.bridgetobenefits.org
Trainings
• Minnesota Center for Professional
Development
o Provides trainings
o Tracks progress of each professional
o Website: http://mncpd.org/