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Minnesota House of Representatives
Early Education Finance and Policy Committee
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Ann McCully, Executive Director
MN Child Care Resource and Referral Network
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The Child Care Resource &
Referral system works to help
families find child care and
understand their care options,
supports quality improvement
of child care providers through
grants and education, and
informs the community and
stakeholders on the
importance of child care.
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Family Partnerships
Teaching Materials
and Strategies
Tracking Learning
Provider/Educator
Training
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•Building Quality
Checklist
•Building Quality
Grants
•Environment Rating
Scale Coaching
•Minnesota Child
Care Credential
Training
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Are you interested in participating in a QRIS?
• We are always looking for ways to improve.
• Any suggestions or help to improve the knowledge of the
child care providers I feel would be a plus
• I think that it will better my business
• It helps us recognize our strengths & weaknesses & helps
us to improve as providers.
• I think it would be nice to know if we are on target with
what we are doing and make improvements or changes if
needed.
• It would be a good experience to see where we are doing
things well and where we can do things differently.
• With Parent Aware not being available to us yet we are
always looking for ways to improve our program
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Are you interested in participating in a QRIS?
• I would like to see this profession get more attention and
would like to see that more providers are taking classes to
improve themselves and their business
• I think that it is important for providers to held to quality
standards. We have these children in our care for many
hours and should be teaching them a curriculum. Also, I
think this will weed out the good providers vs. the bad
ones that seem to plague us in the media.
• I want the profession to receive the recognition and
respect it deserves. In addition, I want providers to be
held to a high standard of care.
• We seem to be in a holding pattern with more emphasis
on quality, but without resources to make it happen.
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Do you use a curriculum to plan the children's
learning and activities?
• YES
– 70% in 2009
– 70% in 2010 to date
• Is it a formally
published
curriculum?
– 41% yes in 2009
– 46% yes in 2010 to
date
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Child Care Provider Survey 2007-2010
60%
50%
40%
30%
36%
37%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Do you Formally track the progress/learning of children in
your care?
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2007
2008
2009
2010
Have you used Mentors/Coaches?
– Center Directors: 26%
– Center/Preschool Teachers: 18%
– School-Age Care Teachers: 15%
– Licensed Family Child Care providers- 12%
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The Environmental Rating Scale Consultant’s position has
breathed new life into many area child care programs. Providers
may seem to be stuck in doing the same thing every day due to
a lack motivation or feel all alone with nowhere to turn.
The consultant’s ability to come into a home or center with an
unbiased but trained eye, assist in creating a plan for change
and then follow up on how well the plan worked has proven to be
an outstanding way to support child care providers.
It is a relationship based support where you meet the providers
on their turf, offer options, and then let the process unfold.
Supported providers are willing to invest time, energy and money
when they are guided to see ways to build a quality program.”
--CCR&R ERS consultant
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