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Inspiration Posts
- 3 reasons to partner with ADES for child care assistance
- A hands-on approach to learning
- Books and Beyond
- Boost Your Program’s Improvement Efforts with an Informal Assessment
- Boost Your Program’s Improvement Efforts with an Informal Assessment
- Building Healthy Handwashing Habits
- Caring for Infants and Toddlers During COVID and Beyond
- Caring for Yourself, So You Can Care for Others
- Child Care Health Consultants help your program achieve healthier environments for children
- Child Care Provider Appreciation: 5 Ways to Say Thanks
- Child-focused learning: following their lead to new adventures
- Communication Matters: Talking with families about learning through play
- Cooking and Sharing: Providing high-quality nutrition in your program
- Cozy, comforting and clean: Providing softness in today’s early learning settings
- Decoding Little Minds
- Director’s network provides support during challenging times
- Earth-Friendly Early Learning
- Engaging Families in Your Quality Improvement Process
- Family child care: Where we love is our home
- Find early childhood programs in communities across Arizona
- Five tips to enhance active play in your program
- Free Play, Not Free-For-All
- Fun with food: How child care providers can help children build positive relationships with food
- Handling the Holidays: Honoring different cultures and traditions
- Healthy Teeth Keep Kids Smiling and Learning
- Help is Here: New System Supports for Arizona’s Early Childhood Programs
- Honoring Extraordinary Staff: Tips from a Program Leader
- How to provide physical distancing in the early education setting
- How will you respond? Preparing for a positive case at your program
- I am Moving, I am Learning: Partner with your child care health consultant to get kids actively learning today
- I is for implementing action steps. Five tips to help you on your goals.
- I is for Investigate: three ways to look at your current practices
- It’s Time to Eat: Tips for Mealtime Mastery
- Keep great teachers at your program: Three ways to boost retention
- Keeping Children Active and Safe in Summer Weather
- Keeping Children Safe with Active Supervision
- Laying the foundation for math with infants and toddlers
- Lullabies to letters: Developing language and literacy through music
- Making the most of your informal assessment feedback
- Marvelous, Miraculous Mud: Celebrating Messy Mud Play
- More than ABC’s: How LETRS is changing the game of language and literacy
- N is for Note Impact of New Practices
- New Levels of Support
- New Routines to Protect Children’s Health
- Nurturing a love of nutrition
- O is for Ongoing Monitoring and Adjustment
- Onboarding New Employees: Advice from Two Program Leaders
- Outdoor classroom is fertile ground for learning
- Playing with sounds: Phonological awareness prepares kids for reading
- Quality First helps prepare kids for school success
- Quality in Action
- Reducing the risk of contamination in diapering areas and handwashing sinks
- Returning to Child Care: Big Feelings, Common Behaviors and Practical Strategies for Teachers
- S is for Setting Goals: Creating an Effective Quality Improvement Plan
- Setting the stage: Learning through free play
- Start building a love of math and science early in life
- Strong Hearts, Strong Minds: Cultivating character through critical thinking
- Supporting learning from a distance
- Take it outside: Learning in the great outdoors
- The Power of Positive Book Times: How Early Educators Can Spark a Love for Reading with Young Children
- Three changes coming soon to Child Care Health Consultation
- Tips for Making Materials Accessible to All Ages
- Tips for supporting literacy development
- Toilet Learning in the Preschool Room: A Changing Table Story
- Tools to reduce preschool expulsions
- V is for Vision: Casting your vision for quality
- Water play activities to support learning
Program Updates
- Quality First Revision Playlist
- Announcing a Revision to Quality First
- Quality First Orientation
- Professional Learning from the Arizona Department of Education
- Levels of Support Handouts
- Informal Assessment Request Form
- 2023 QF Updates
- A Note about Public and Non-Public Ratings
- 2024 QF Updates
- Early Childhood Resource Guide
- Quality First Expansion-funded programs
- Quality First Forum Recording
- Quality First Scholarships for 2025
- Quality First Participant Guide
- Participant Forms
- All-New Marketing Toolkit
- Safety Information