Become Quality Rated and maintain continuous quality improvement
While early childhood educators understand what it means to provide high-quality care and the crucial role it plays in ensuring children have a healthy start to a lifetime of opportunity, parents and guardians may not.
Georgia’s Quality Rated system is a valuable communication tool that quickly and easily lets families know your commitment to providing a high quality program.
Achieve Quality Rated
Our Early Care and Education Specialists in Central West Georgia (Region 2), North East Georgia (Region 6), and North West Georgia (Region 1) have a heart for working with early childhood educators to improve and sustain the quality of their child care. They have assisted hundreds of Georgia’s child care programs in becoming Quality Rated and can’t wait to help you too! (view region map).
Step 1
Go to www.qualityrated.decal.ga.gov.
Step 2
Choose “create account” and click "register."
Step 3
Under facility search, enter your license #, CCLC-… or FR-…., then click “search.”
Step 4
When your info comes, up click “create account.” Before you do this, make sure your email address is correct. If it is not, call the Quality Rated Help Desk at 1-855-800-7747.
Step 5
When you finish the application, check the square at the bottom of the page confirming that you have reviewed the info and it is correct. Then click “submit.”
Step 6
Contact us at 404-479-4230 to request your FREE Technical Assistance.
Benefits of Quality Rated
A completed Quality Rated application allows early learning professionals to attend Quality Rated training for free.
Free training
Peer support and
networking
Opportunities to attend specialized leadership training.
Programs receive individualized on-site coaching to support Quality Rated goals, practices of early learning and care professionals, and continuous quality improvement.
Free on-site support and coaching
Quality Rated helps teachers articulate what high quality early care and learning looks like.
Better parent and staff
partnerships
Quality Rated encourages programs to invest in teachers and help create professional development leading to retention.
Higher teacher
retention
Coaches provide support to administrators, teachers, and all staff at programs.
Layered programmatic support
The Quality Rated tool helps families find child care, preschool, and pre-K programs in their area that have been evaluated by credentialed early childhood experts and identified as high quality. As a designated Quality Rated child care provider, the tool will raise the visibility of your program and help you become more fully enrolled.
Marketing
“I would like to thank QCC for the opportunity to explore the quality rated program with me with great leadership. Quality Rated has given me the background and resources to be successful in my career.”