Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part III - Economic Stability › Subpart 12 - Child Care Assistance Program › Chapter 51 - Child Care Assistance Program › Subchapter C - Child Care Quality Rating System › Section III-5117 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Approved Courses
-courses that are deemed
						approved by the department.
Assistant Directors
-must be on site for
						a minimum of 20 hours per week for centers with an enrollment of 101 or
						more.
Assistant Teachers
-any staff who cares
						for children in a classroom setting that can be assessed using the
						ITERS-R/ECERS-R and works at least 16 hours per week in the center.
Child Care Center
-a licensed day care
						center.
Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR and
						R)
- a state and/or local organization with whom the department has
						contracted to provide services to families, early childhood professionals, and
						communities statewide.
Child Development Associate (CDA)
						Credential
-a nationally recognized credential which can be used to
						meet staff qualification requirements.
Director
-
an
						administrator who meets the director qualifications as outlined in Louisiana
						Administrative Code, Title 67, Chapter 73,
						Section
						7311 and is on site a minimum
						of 30 hours per week during operating hours when children are present.
Early Childhood Environment Rating
						Scale
-Revised (ECERS-R)-a research-based assessment tool that measures
						environmental indicators of quality in preschool classrooms with children ages
						2.5-5 years of age.
Environment Rating Scales (ERS)
-the
						assessment tools developed at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
						at the University of North Carolina that measure environmental indicators of
						quality. They include the Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised
						(ITERS-R) and the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R),
						as well as the School Age Care Environment Rating Scale (SACERS) for school age
						programs, and the Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale-Revised (FCCERS-R)
						for family child care homes. Only the ITERS-R/ECERS-R apply for purposes of the
						Quality Start Child Care Rating System at this time.
Group
-those children who are assigned
						for most of the day to a specific teacher and who occupy an individual
						classroom or well defined space that prevents intermingling of children from
						different groups within a larger group or area.
Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised
						(ITERS-R)
-a research-based assessment tool that measures environmental
						indicators of quality in preschool classrooms with children 0-2.5 years of
						age.
Lead Teacher
-a teacher who has primary
						responsibility for a designated classroom that can be assessed using the
						ITERS-R/ECERS-R, including planning and supervision, and spends at least 25
						hours a week in that classroom. All classrooms must have a lead teacher
Louisiana Pathways Child Care Career Development
						System
- the state practitioner registry maintained by the Department
						of Children and Family Services and/or its contractor. LA Pathways registers
						child care directors and staff according to requirements based on training and
						education, experience, and professional activities, as approved by the
						Department of Children and Family Services. Categories are established for
						child care staff, child care assistant teacher, child care teacher, child care
						assistant director and child care director. Information on LA Pathways can be
						found at http://pathways.louisiana.gov/ or www.dss.state.la.us.
Quality Start Child Care Rating
						System
Points
-points given in the Program, Staff
						Qualifications, Administration Practices, and Family and Community Involvement
						areas. All items within a point must be verified to receive credit. The total
						points earned determine the star award at star rating three, four, and
						five.
Service Period
-the months within the
						calendar quarter for which a child received care.
Social Emotional Subscales of the Environment
						Rating Scales
-a subscale of the ECERS-R and ITERS-R generated by the
						scores earned on the Language-Reasoning, Interaction and Program Structure
						subscales of the ECERS-R and the Listening and Talking, Interaction and Program
						Structure subscales of the ITERS-R. This new subscale score will be used to
						determine the ERS score for Program Points 1-4.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with  45 CFR Part 98  and
						R.S.
						36:474.