Learn & Grow Is Here!

Alaska’s Quality Recognition & Improvement System (QRIS)

Improving the Quality of Care

To parents, high-quality child care is vital for their child’s success. For programs, providing high-quality care is their goal. Learn & Grow brings these needs together in a system designed to improve and foster the success of our children. Learn & Grow is Alaska’s Quality Recognition and Improvement System (QRIS), helping early childhood education programs in improving the quality of their care.

What is a QRIS?

Learn its role in advancing the quality of early childhood education

How Programs Participate

A guide for early childhood education programs

Levels of Quality

Learn about the five levels of quality

Learn & Grow Announces Full QRIS Framework

Learn & Grow, Alaska’s Quality Recognition and Improvement System (QRIS), is excited to announce the completion of the system’s full framework (Levels 1-5), giving early childhood education (ECE) programs a roadmap for developing high-quality learning environments.

Learn & Grow contains five levels of quality standards beyond licensing. In 2016, Learn & Grow launched Levels 1 and 2, engaging more than 130 programs in foundational quality activities. With Levels 3-5 of the framework now complete, programs can progress to offer high-quality services.

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Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Learn & Grow Is Here!

Improving the Quality of Care

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How Programs Participate

Levels of Quality

Learn & Grow Announces Full QRIS Framework

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