Two Statewide Systems
with a Common Goal of Healthy, Successful Children

Alaska SEED, Learn & Grow and thread work together toward a common goal of healthy, successful children. thread houses and manages both Learn & Grow and SEED.

Supporting Early Care & Learning Programs

Learn & Grow is Alaska’s Quality Recognition and Improvement System (QRIS) and its mission is to advance the quality of early care and learning to foster the success of young children.

Learn & Grow includes five levels of program quality that incorporates the following quality standards:

Administration & Leadership

Early Childhood Educator Qualifications & Professional Development

Learning Environment, Adult-Child Interactions, and Child Outcomes

Family & Community Engagement

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Supporting Early Childhood Educators

Alaska System for Early Education Development (SEED) is Alaska’s early childhood professional development system that unites and advances the needs of early childhood education professionals.

Alaska SEED cultivates the quality of professionalism in the early education field through the following:

Alaska SEED Registry and Early Childhood and School-Age Career Ladder

Alaska SEED Professional Development Funding

Alaska SEED Trainer and Training Approval System

Alaska’s Early Care & Learning Core Knowledge and

Learn & Grow and Alaska SEED work together to improve the quality of early care and learning because it matters where children are and who they are with.

thread’s Role

Both Learn & Grow and Alaska SEED are housed and managed by thread. thread provides direct services to licensed early childhood education programs throughout Alaska, including those participating in Learn & Grow. thread staff provide training, coaching, consultation, and advising for early childhood educators to help them meet their professional development goals. thread staff also perform CDA Verification Visits for educators and environmental assessments for early education programs.

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