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The Everyday Quality project is a joint effort between researchers at the University of Alabama and the University of Delaware, the Alabama Department of Human Resources, and family child care educators to support quality improvement and highlight the strengths of family child care settings.
We are creating a new measure of quality and accompanying toolkit with family child care educators. Current quality measures used in Family Child Care (FCC) were often created for center-based settings and do not adequately address the unique features and strengths of FCC.
In response, the Everyday Quality (EDQ) project has two primary goals: 1) to design a practical quality measure based on everyday experiences and daily routines in FCC settings, and 2) to develop a toolkit based around the EDQ measure that supports continuous quality improvement (CQI.) We hope that the EDQ tools can be used in a variety of quality initiatives and systems. Findings from this study will fill a gap in family child care quality measurement and can be used to promote more effective inclusion of family child care educators in quality improvement efforts.
If you are a family child care educator, or you work with family child care educators, please contact us to learn more about how you can get involved!
We are creating a new measure of quality and accompanying toolkit with family child care educators. Current quality measures used in Family Child Care (FCC) were often created for center-based settings and do not adequately address the unique features and strengths of FCC.
In response, the Everyday Quality (EDQ) project has two primary goals: 1) to design a practical quality measure based on everyday experiences and daily routines in FCC settings, and 2) to develop a toolkit based around the EDQ measure that supports continuous quality improvement (CQI.) We hope that the EDQ tools can be used in a variety of quality initiatives and systems. Findings from this study will fill a gap in family child care quality measurement and can be used to promote more effective inclusion of family child care educators in quality improvement efforts.
If you are a family child care educator, or you work with family child care educators, please contact us to learn more about how you can get involved!