{"id":5370,"date":"2018-11-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/blog\/timeline-for-implementing-alaskas-qris"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T18:00:00","slug":"timeline-for-implementing-alaskas-qris","status":"publish","type":"learn-and-grow-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/blog\/timeline-for-implementing-alaskas-qris","title":{"rendered":"Timeline for Implementing Alaska&#8217;s QRIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog_content\">\n<div>Learn &amp; Grow launched in Alaska in July 2016 with its first phase: Levels 1 and 2 available for licensed child care programs. Participation by licensed child care programs grew rapidly, and within the first two years 33% of eligible programs statewide had enrolled. By comparison, many states experience an average 10% rate of growth in participating programs.<\/div>\n<h3>Implementation Timeline<\/h3>\n<div><strong>FY14-16 Learn &amp; Grow Planning<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Stakeholder engagement<\/li>\n<li>Determine levels and structure<\/li>\n<li>Assess system capacity to implement<\/li>\n<li>Identify standards and quality activities<\/li>\n<li>Communication and marketing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>FY17-18 Implement Phase I of Learn &amp; Grow<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Voluntarily available to Licensed Child Care Statewide<\/li>\n<li>Level 1 and 2 of a 5 leveled system<\/li>\n<li>Support the systems change of thread to be the implementation arm of Learn &amp; Grow<\/li>\n<li>Make changes as necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>FY19 Planning for Phase II<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner with CCPO, DEED, tribal, and school age to develop quality standards and activities for Level 3, 4, and 5<\/li>\n<li>Determine needs of system to be ready to enroll and support programs and early childhood educators<\/li>\n<li>Exploring wage compensation methods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>FY20 Implement Phase II of Learn &amp; Grow<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Make Learn &amp; Grow available to all early care and education program types (Head Start, Early Head Start, Pre-elementary, Military Child Care, Tribal Child Care, State or MOA licensed child care, and licensed school-age care)<\/li>\n<li>Includes all 5 levels of the system<\/li>\n<li>First come first serve basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","lg_tags":[12],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-5370","learn-and-grow-blog","type-learn-and-grow-blog","status-publish","hentry","lg_tags-learn-and-grow-qris"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gb-block-post-grid-landscape":false,"gb-block-post-grid-square":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"jjharrier","author_link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/author"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Learn &amp; Grow launched in Alaska in July 2016 with its first phase: Levels 1 and 2 available for licensed child care programs. Participation by licensed child care programs grew rapidly, and within the first two years 33% of eligible programs statewide had enrolled. By comparison, many states experience an average 10% rate of growth...&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/learn-and-grow-blog\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/learn-and-grow-blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/learn-and-grow-blog"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lg_tags?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}