Agenda: Continuous Quality Improvement in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)
Date: March 26-27, 2014
Location: Baltimore, MD
WELCOME
Desired results for the meeting:
 Develop trust and teamwork across Learning Table states
 Articulate state goals for the Learning Table
 Lay the foundation for Learning Table sessions
 Understand specific strategies of CQI in other systems (NAEYC, Head Start and school improvement)
 Develop a working definition of CQI (consideration as a standard, framework for TA work, etc.)
 Begin to identify what the approach will be to CQI in their state: their definition of CQI and their goals and strategies for implementing
CQI in their state
Proposed agreements for our work together:
 Be fully present and participating (please step out to use cells, tablets, laptops, etc.)
 One speaker at a time
 Confidentiality
 Speak your truth and listen carefully to others’ truths; it’s OK to disagree
 Trust best intentions and suspend judgment, valuing all contributions
Homework:
 Advance Reading for Session I
o NAEYC: Strength and Momentum
o Head Start Approach to School Readiness
o School Improvement: Organizing Schools for Improvement Lessons from Chicago
o Children's Institute Stage of Change Policy Brief .pdf
o Children's Institute Stage of Change Scale Survey.pdf
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Activities – prior to face-to-face meeting in Baltimore
o Meet with team, by phone or in-person, prior to the Baltimore meeting:
 Develop a poster presentation on your state QRIS system. Include anything that “tells the story” of your QRIS current reality,
including anything you have around Continuous Quality Improvement. This will be used to orient your fellow states to your QRIS
work and your efforts in CQI.
 Develop and bring your team’s CQI Learning Table goals to the meeting (what do you want to know, what are your big questions
and what do you want to learn).
 Review the Work Plan Template and complete the first section.
March 26, 2014
Anne E. Casey Foundation - 701 St. Paul Street / Baltimore, MD 21201 (5th Floor)
Time
Activity
1:30
2:00
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:15
3:45
4:00
4:30
5:00
5:45-6:00
Poster Walk – States to follow up with and questions
Welcome, meeting results, agreements, housekeeping, review today’s agenda
Introductions
Topical Introductions
CQI Approach in NAEYC Accreditation – Barbara Willer
CQI Approach in Head Start – Yvette Sanchez Fuentes
BREAK
CQI in School Improvement – Lindsey Allard
Panel Discussion
Small Group Discussion about Presentations – Common Elements, Differences
Close/Evaluation
Dinner on your own
March 27, 2014
Time
Activity
8:00
8:15
8:30
9:00
9:30
10:30
10:45
11:45
12:15
12:45
1:30
1:45-2:00
Welcome back, agenda, housekeeping
Reflections/Review of State Learning Table Goals
Stages of Change – Change as a Process
CQI Definition + Applying CQI Philosophy and Approach
QRIS/CQI Relationship
BREAK
Pennsylvania Example – Leslie Roesler
Mapping State Examples
Working Lunch
Small Group Report Out on State Steps
Unanswered Questions and Next Steps, State Team Meetings, Webinars
Close/Evaluation