Development of Family Child Care and Family & Community Engagement Standards for Illinois’s new QRIS (ExceleRate)
Illinois Governor’s Office of Early Childhood (OECD)
In collaboration with the Illinois Governor’s Office of Early Childhood and the Principles and Practices sub-committee of the Illinois Early Learning Council, Erikson Institute helped to develop family engagement and family child care standards for ExceleRate Illinois, the state’s new quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early childhood programs.
Excelerate Illinois: Family and Community Engagement
To read more about the research that informed the development of this project, see Going Above and Beyond: Striving for High-Quality Family & Community Engagement in Early Care and Education.