 Strengthening Human Service Agencies
Early Childhood Quality Assurance Initiatives
“We want parents to care about quality and to understand what makes a quality program. By being an NAEYC accredited program, with the support of FPWA’s QNY project, we are able to educate families about accreditation and what quality early education looks like.”
- Jeannette Corey, Director of Early Childhood Services, Phipps Head Start
FPWA assists New York City early care and education programs in improving teaching and administrative practices in order to reach the high-quality national standards established by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). We uses the NAEYC self-study and accreditation process as a guide for child care, Early Head Start, Head Start and private early education programs to improve. As an accreditation facilitation project, we help program staff, parents and public officials to better understand the value of program standards and working together toward continuous quality improvement.FPWA is proud to be a founding partner in the Quality New York collaborative. Since 2002, more than half of the 83 programs assisted by QNY in achieving NAEYC accreditation are FPWA member agency early care and education programs. For more information contact Mary Hayes, Director of Early Childhood Quality Assurance Initiatives, Ph.(212)801-1319. Upcoming Events
- Quality Connections: Language and Early Literacy - SOLD OUT
Part 1 - October 6, 2011
Part 2 - October 20, 2011
Part 3 - November 10, 2011 - Quest for Quality is a three-part sequence of workshops to help you understand reliable quality indicators and learn how to use assessments to improve quality.
- Step Into Quality: Workshop I
The quality continuum: What defines quality? And, what are the steps for quality improvement?
November 8, 2011, 1:00pm—4:00pm
- Quality in Action: Workshop II
Classroom observation and portfolios: complementary tools for improving teaching practices and learning environments.
November 22, 2011, 1:00pm—4:00pm
- Quality Assured: Workshop III
Supporting quality with evidence: How can assessment improve early childhood programs? How effective leaders use assessment to create and continuously improve programs for young children.
December 13, 2011, 1:00pm—4:00pm
- Quality Connections: Guidance and Discipline
Early childhood classrooms are busy, noisy, high-spirited places, in which teachers need to find the right balance of guidance to promote young children’s developing sense of discipline as well as to facilitate learning. This professional development will help teaching staff connect the dots between child development theory, best teaching practices, and early childhood program standards. Program administrators will find tools to support their teaching staff in developing practices to improve the learning environment.
December 2 and December 9, 2011, 9:30am—12:30pm
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