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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hello! Most of you work with childcare providers in one way or another so you may be aware of the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) that is rolling out this year. Very generally speaking, QRIS is similar
to the hotel star rating system--stars indicate the types of services and amenities a hotel offers (objective), not what customers think about it (subjective). QRIS will rate childcare providers' commitment to quality based on their level of training/education
among several other factors. This means more and more childcare providers will be looking for training, including taking some college classes or even going back to college to get a degree.
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Libraries are already thinking about how they can provide Every Child Ready to Read training for Oregon Registry continuing education credit to meet this coming need. However, have you thought about how LearningExpress can also help meet childcare providers'
needs? I hadn't until a few weeks ago. I brought it up at one of my state level meetings equivalent to your local early learning hub/coalition meetings and people were excited... two jaws literally dropped! You too may want to inform your local early learning
community about LearningExpress when appropriate--when they are discussing professional development, QRIS, etc.<br>
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Here are a few ways the people at my meetings think childcare providers might use LearningExpress:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Many childcare providers have been out of school for a long time, they would likely use the tutorials to brush up on reading, writing, and math skills they haven't used in years.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Practice tests for tests they have to take to enroll in college--SAT, ACT, COMPASS, GRE<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Microsoft Office tutorials to improve their skills for their current job and for their homework.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
GED preparation materials.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
US citizenship test practice<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Attached are the handouts I passed out at my meeting. If you want to use them, then you will need to update the word document to specify how childcare providers can access LearningExpress
from your library’s website, currently it explains how to access it from Libraries of Oregon.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Also, I recommend waiting to promote it until after your library updates your link from LearningExpress 2.0 to Learning Express 3.0 so they don’t get used to 2.0 right before it goes
away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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