How Louisiana Is Making Groundbreaking Improvements in Quality

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What does it mean to focus on teacher-student interactions? How can it help? What&rsquo;s QRIS and how can it be used to implement improvement for both children and educators? Today&rsquo;s guests are Nasha Patel and Sarintha Stricklin, and their conversation will address these questions.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nasha is a managing director at Watershed Advisors. She most recently served as Senior Advisor for Planning and Strategy at the Oregon Early Learning Division and previously served as the Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Early Childhood Strategy at the Louisiana Department of Education. In that role, she led the strategy to increase access to and quality of care and education for children in Louisiana through the state&rsquo;s unified birth-to-five system.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Sarintha Stricklin serves as the Director of the Jefferson Early Childhood Network supporting leaders of publicly funded programs in south Louisiana. She has worked in early education for over 30 years as a teacher, administrator, trainer, coach, and consultant. Currently, she leads a broad coalition of thought partners who are collaborating to increase access to high-quality early care and education across neighborhoods in Jefferson Parish Louisiana.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to the episode to hear about Nasha&rsquo;s white paper on QRIS, what Sarintha has seen a state/local partnership do for her parish, and how Louisana&rsquo;s model can have effects across the country</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Topics Discussed in This Episode</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:00:26] Today&rsquo;s guests, Nasha Patel and Sarintha Stricklin</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:01:47] Nasha&rsquo;s upcoming publication on QRIS</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:03:39] The pitfalls Nasha&rsquo;