As New York State's Quality Rating and Improvement System for early childhood programs, QUALITYstarsNY has the unique opportunity to work with different organizations in communities across the [...]
Our Recruitment and Engagement Associate, Gray Robinson, documented his first time at the NYAEYC Annual Conference. Read highlights from his experience as a member of the QUALITYstarsNY team [...]
QUALITYstarsNY had a conversation with Edna Decker, Director at New Wonders of Slate Hill and Karen Morgan, owner of Karen's Day Care. Edna and Karen were [...]
May 10 is Child Care Provider Appreciation Day. The QUALITYstarsNY team wants to express our gratitude for everything providers do each day for children and families!
QUALITYstarsNY is excited to attend the New York Association for the Education of Young Children’s annual conference in May in Verona, NY. Check out the schedule of workshops QUALITYstarsNY is leading at this year's meeting and we're to find us in the Exhibit Hall.
In March 2024 when we received the following message from Tri-Town Kids, a Child Care Center in Brasher Falls, we thought it was a great encapsulation of everything a program can achieve when participating in QUALITYstarsNY.
March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for overall learning, social-emotional, and professional development. Reading is an integral part of early childhood cognitive development, building relationships, fostering language and vocabulary development, and establishing critical thinking skills and beginning concepts of print.
It is with heavy hearts that we share that Mira Berkley, a former member of our QUALITYstarsNY team who retired in 2020, has passed away. Mira was a Quality [...]
New York State allocated an unprecedented $35 million funds to QUALITYstarsNY from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This three-year investment has allowed QUALITYstarsNY to double its participation and build its capacity and infrastructure for future growth—if an increase in annual funding is provided in the NYS budget to sustain the project on this larger scale.
The Aspire Registry has paired up with Quorum by Teaching Strategies to directly feed distance learning training information into your Aspire profile from the Quorum portal.