The Village News

Following through on a wonderful project that Janine started, Children's Village is participating in Early Achievers, Washington’s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) administered by the Department of Early Learning. As an Early Achievers participant, we are demonstrating our commitment to offering high- quality child care and promoting school readiness.

You might be wondering – what is a QRIS? A QRIS is a process for supporting and rewarding child care providers for providing high-quality care. More than 25 states have a statewide QRIS and Washington began implementing our system in July 2012. Similar to a hotel rating, participating child care facilities are assigned a rating based on observed quality. The Early Achievers quality standards look at what we know is good for children and will help them get ready for school – things like our activities and curriculum, how we work with families, and how we interact with children. As a participant, we will get resources to help our program including coaching, training, and scholarships.

Family engagement is an important part of Early Achievers. You can help support our participation by asking questions, providing feedback and staying involved. We will share our rating once it has been assigned and provide more information as needed.

We are in the Level 2 stage, which means doing some ground work to apply for a review and rating.  We will be applying for our rating sometime this fall or early 2014. 

If you still have questions or want more information about Early Achievers, please visit the Department of Early Learning website at www.del.wa.gov/care/qris.

Thank you,


Royale