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Interactions at the Heart of Continuous Quality Improvement

CLASS® is a proven approach to improving teaching quality and child outcomes at scale

What does continuous quality improvement look like in action?

Lisa Howard talks through her program's structure and how it works to support children's development and team growth.
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The CLASS Framework

The CLASS tool was developed to help educators focus on, measure, and improve educator-child interactions and enables a continuous quality improvement approach that:

  • Focuses on the heart of great teaching
  • Promotes data-driven impact and ongoing progress monitoring
  • Supports integration and scales across organizations
  • Defines an objective approach to quality
  • Gives consistency of quality across birth – secondary
  • Offers comprehensive, role-based professional development

Additional Resources

Learn more about how CLASS is a critical tool in any CQI system

How Louisiana is Making Groundbreaking Improvements in Quality

Louisiana is leading in the way in making improvements in the lives of their students and teachers. In this episode, Marnetta meets with Nasha Patel, managing director of Watershed Advisors, and Sarintha Stricklin, early education consultant for the Jefferson Network. They discuss how leaders at the state and local level in Louisiana used CLASS® to build their QRIS and improve quality.
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