About QA

Mission

Quality Assist's mission is to increase the knowledge, skills, resources, and resourcefulness of adults who have significant influence on the lives, education, and well-being of young children.

Since 1987, Quality Assist has provided training and technical assistance for more than 15,000 early childhood teachers, administrators, coaches, mentors, and trainers to achieve the highest professional standards of quality. Our clients are teachers and administrators working in child care, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, state funded pre-k classrooms, and family child care settings. Together we have achieved unprecedented results.

How do we achieve results

Our services are grounded in research, guided by practical experience, and aligned with enduring values. We form partnerships with administrators, teachers, trainers, mentors, coaches, and parents. Together we evaluate the circumstances, resources, and needs to formulate a plan to improve the quality of the early education that is ambitious yet realistic. As a partner, we stay with our clients through implementation of their plan to ensure that resources are optimized and that changes to the plan are timely, aligned with client values and goals, and produce desired results.

We meet our clients where they are and move with them to maximize their potential in unexpected ways. Together, we unsettle static ideas, examine entrenched notions and methods, reveal new possibilities, and draw upon untapped energy and excitement about teaching and learning.

Team

Quality Assist gains its strength from a distinguished staff with diverse talents, expertise, and experience. Our staff has backgrounds in:

• Early childhood development, education, psychology, language and speech pathology
• Mentoring, coaching, facilitating adult learning and professional development
• Training and technical assistance
• Program evaluation
• Design and implementation of comprehensive and innovative events
• Large scale project management
• Information management
• Design and production of supplemental curriculum materials for children
• Design and production of training materials

To be highly effective and responsive, we have established long-standing working relationships with a network of associates. This network allows us to access the knowledge and experience of an extended community of expertise.

As an organization, Quality Assist is committed to continuous learning, we

• routinely evaluate our practices and approach
• rely upon scientifically-based research and cutting edge expertise
• contribute to the body of knowledge of adult learning and early childhood education through research and evaluation

Environment

While our office, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is home-base for our staff, most of our work is field-based. We work on location with our clients to ensure that our services are authentic, relevant, and produce results.

Our office offers an innovative learning environment for early childhood professionals. Our training space features a comprehensive professional library, internet access, large and small group work space, multi-media equipment, and a full range of facilitation tools.