It's been wonderful hearing from so many of you about the advocacy work you are planning or doing in your state. There are lots of great things happening!
The QRIS Subcommittee will be focusing on two advocacy agenda items over the next several weeks. With QRIS, many states have created a professional registry that ranks early childhood teachers based on education and experience. We believe that a Montessori credential from a MACTE approved teacher education program should result in a ranking of "highly qualified" on these state rankings. We will be examining the criteria and expectations for this ranking with the goal of providing a comprehensive look at the Montessori ECE credential to share with state QRIS managers.
You can help in this effort. Let us know if the Montessori ECE credential is recognized in your state and at what level. What was the process for this recognition? How does this impact required professional development?
Our second agenda item will be gaining the approval for the Montessori ECE curriculum. There are states who already recognize the Montessori curriculum as an approved state curriculum. If your state is one, share how that came to be. Do you have a Montessori alignment with your state's ECE standards? What state agency grants this approval? Share with us what you know, or share your questions so we know better what to ask in our state.
By sharing our work and our experiences with one another we benefit from each other's successes, or might have ideas to help one another with the hurdles.
Did you have a good conversation with someone at the QRIS office? Were you able to work through a confusion or help someone better understand Montessori education? Has your state group had good luck with a state census? What is your plan for moving forward? Share your comments, tell your story, let us know how things are going in your state.
This is our Montessori community and together we can support Montessori education.
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