FCC or Center/OST?
This set of standards is what you would follow if you are a program licensed for 12 or fewer children.
What is the Family Child Care Standards?
This is the number of Standards within Rising Stars for ME.
What is 7?
This Star Level is exclusively for license-exempt providers.
What is Star 1.
This is the length of time (in years) that the Rising Stars Certificate is generally good for after being issued.
What is 2 years? (And in alignment with licensing renewal date).
For the QRIS system, a small center licensed for 12 or fewer children falls into which set of standards?
What is the Family Child Care Standards?
This type of program is the ONLY type of program that does not have to participate in the Rising Stars for ME system.
What are license-exempt/legally unlicensed programs that do not accept Child Care Subsidy funds?
This standard addresses health and physical activity.
What is Standard 7: Health, Safety, Nutrition and Physical Activity?
All licensed programs fall at this Star Rating, as a baseline.
What is Star 2?
This first step in getting access to the QRIS application requires the person on the license (or an approved designee) to register as this with the MRTQ Registry.
What is Director of Record Access?
These are 3 (of 7) file types accepted by the Rising Stars for ME e-portfolio.
What are .txt, .pdf, .xls, .doc, .docx, .jpg, and.png ?
This set of standards requires a program to use an appropriate tool to measure the overall quality of their business and professional practices annually (Star 4).
What is Family Child Care Standards?
This standard requires that a facility post a schedule of daily routines.
What is Standard 1 on Learning Environment/Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
This Star Rating within the FCC Standards requires that the program owner is a Level 3 or above on the career lattice.
This term refers to the set of documents collected and uploaded to the RS for ME application.
What is the e-portfolio?
This required training for Standard 4, Star 3 does NOT have a waiver process and there are no alternative trainings that meet the requirement.
What is Supporting Inclusion: Laws and Practices?
This set of standards requires that a Program Owner/Director has completed the six-hour on-demand training Supporting Inclusion: Laws and Practices.
What are both Family Childcare and Facilities Standards?
This Standard has the requirements that a program utilize the Inclusive Practices Checklist to achieve a Star 3 or 4.
What is Standard 2, Program Evaluation?
This Star Rating (Facilities) requires that for programs serving children ages six weeks to kindergarten and/or mixed age programs: At least 50% of all permanent/regular staff are at least a Level 5 or above on the MRTQ Direct Care Career Lattice.
What is a Star 4?
This part of the application can be done either on a page designated before answering standard questions or during the process of answering standard questions.
What is uploading documents/links for the e-portfolio?
This is one TA resource to provide to people looking for help creating a CQI plan.
What is...
(any one of our documents that support Program Evaluation and CQI planning), the QIT, and our CQI CoPs?
This set of standards requires that the Provider Handbook includes a policy describing how the program meets the dietary needs of children/youth taking into consideration diverse food and nutrition as determined by culture, religion, and/or disabilities.
What is the Facilities Set of Standards?
This Standard rating is impacted by a staff or director/owner's level on the MRTQ PDN Career Lattice.
What is Standard 3, Staff Qualifications and Professional Development?
This Star level requires all programs to complete the Rising Stars for ME Inclusive Practices Checklist on an annual basis for the following categories: Prerequisites and TWO other categories of choice.
What is a Star 3?
These two sections of the application will be automatically uploaded from the MRTQ Registry.
What are staff career lattice levels and trainings completed?
Site visits to randomly selected programs enrolled in Rising Stars for ME will be scheduled this amount of time ahead of the visit.
What is 30 days?