Our team of Quality Improvement Specialists, Coaches, and Central Office staff traveled across New York State to attend over 50 state-wide conferences, local events, trainings, and much more [...]
Recruitment and Engagement Associate Gray Robinson attended the 2024 Family Child Care Association of New York State (FCCANYS) Annual Conference, along with Quality Improvement Specialists and family child care [...]
The application for the QUALITYstarsNY Academic Scholarship for the spring 2024 semester is open October 1 - November 10, 2024. If you work in an early childhood program participating in QUALITYstarsNY and are pursuing an early childhood education degree or credit-bearing coursework, you may be eligible to apply for the scholarship!
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 is launching the new QUALITYstarsNY Academic Scholarship on July 1, 2024. This scholarship can support teachers and program leaders in completing an early childhood education degree or credit-bearing certification, credential, or coursework.
QUALITYstarsNY is releasing revisions to guidance around evidence requirements for the Standards Inventory submission process, which will go into effect January 31, 2025. Learn more about the revisions and access the updated Standards Guidance documents to prepare for these changes.
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.
QUALITYstarsNY partners with Children's Institute as our independent assessment team to conduct Environmental Rating Scale (ERS) observations for eligible programs the rating process. Learn more about Children's Institute and the ways our partnership promotes high quality early childhood education in New York State.