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Learn & Grow launched in Alaska in July 2016 with its first phase: Levels 1 and 2 available for licensed child care programs. Participation by licensed child care programs grew rapidly, and within the first two years 33% of eligible programs statewide had enrolled. By comparison, many states experience an average 10% rate of growth in participating programs.<\/div>\n

Implementation Timeline<\/h3>\n
FY14-16 Learn & Grow Planning<\/strong><\/div>\n
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  • Stakeholder engagement<\/li>\n
  • Determine levels and structure<\/li>\n
  • Assess system capacity to implement<\/li>\n
  • Identify standards and quality activities<\/li>\n
  • Communication and marketing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    FY17-18 Implement Phase I of Learn & Grow<\/strong><\/div>\n
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    • Voluntarily available to Licensed Child Care Statewide<\/li>\n
    • Level 1 and 2 of a 5 leveled system<\/li>\n
    • Support the systems change of thread to be the implementation arm of Learn & Grow<\/li>\n
    • Make changes as necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      FY19 Planning for Phase II<\/strong><\/div>\n
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      • Partner with CCPO, DEED, tribal, and school age to develop quality standards and activities for Level 3, 4, and 5<\/li>\n
      • Determine needs of system to be ready to enroll and support programs and early childhood educators<\/li>\n
      • Exploring wage compensation methods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        FY20 Implement Phase II of Learn & Grow<\/strong><\/div>\n
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        • Make Learn & Grow available to all early care and education program types (Head Start, Early Head Start, Pre-elementary, Military Child Care, Tribal Child Care, State or MOA licensed child care, and licensed school-age care)<\/li>\n
        • Includes all 5 levels of the system<\/li>\n
        • First come first serve basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","lg_tags":[12],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-5370","learn-and-grow-blog","type-learn-and-grow-blog","status-publish","hentry","lg_tags-learn-and-grow-qris"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTimeline for Implementing Alaska's QRIS - Learn and Grow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/learn-and-grow\/blog\/timeline-for-implementing-alaskas-qris\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timeline for Implementing Alaska's QRIS - Learn and Grow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn & Grow launched in Alaska in July 2016 with its first phase: Levels 1 and 2 available for licensed child care programs. 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