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Cradle to Career Operations Team Meeting

Date: July 23, 2020

Time: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Registration Required: No

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Agenda

Virtual Meeting:Join Zoom Webinar
Password: 629187
Telephone: (669) 900-9128
Webinar ID: 993 0943 5298

  1. Welcome and Check-in
    Time: 8:30-8:40 a.m.
    Presenter: Karin Demarest
    Action Item: Approve Agenda
    Action Item: Approve June Meeting Minutes
    1. Zoom Meeting Logistics
    2. Check in
  2. C2C Membership
    Time: 8:40-8:45 a.m.
    Presenters: Karin Demarest
    Action Item: Vote on Katrin Ciaffa’s Cradle to Career Membership
  3. Childcare Crisis
    Time: 8:45-9:10 a.m.
    Presenters: Karin Demarest, Susan Gilmore, Jason Weiss & Michelle Edwards
    1. Childcare Crisis in the Time of COVID-19
      1. Early Childhood
      2. School-age Children and Distance Learning
    2. Role for Cradle to Career to educate, connect and amplify
  4. Cradle to Career Advocacy
    Time: 9:10-9:30 a.m.
    Presenters: Karin Demarest, Kathy Goodacre, Angie Dillon-Shore & Dan Blake
    Action Item: Approve Letterhead Guidelines
    1. Education Town Hall with Senator Mike McGuire, State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, Superintendent Steve Herrington, and Kathy Goodacre - Update and Next steps
    2. Cradle to Career Advocacy and Letterhead Guidelines
    3. Cradle to Career Digital Divide Next Steps
  5. Announcements & Updates
    Time: 9:30-9:45 a.m.
    Presenters: Karin Demarest, Lisa Carreño, Lisa Wittke Schaffner & Alea Tantarelli
    1. Equity in Education Initiative Logo & Branding & Next Steps
    2. Family Justice Center and SCOE Webinars to Help Educators Identify and Address Child Abuse • Health Action Council Meeting
  6. Supporting Cradle to Career Goals
    Time: 9:45-9:50 a.m.
    Presenter: Karin Demarest
    Action Item: Approve Advocacy Opportunity
    1. Ways to educate, connect & amplify: Cradle to Career members share opportunities
  7. Conclusion and Check-out
    Time: 9:50-10:00 a.m.
    Presenter: Karin Demarest
    Public Comment
    Future Agenda Items
    Next Meeting Date and Time: August 27, 2020
  8. Adjourn

Goal Areas and Strategies


Goal 1: Every Child Enters Kindergarten Ready to Succeed

  • Increase access to quality preschool
  • Increase percentage of parents reading to their children every day
  • Increase percentage of early care educators participating in professional development
  • Increase percentage of schools completing a common kindergarten readiness assessment


Goal 2: The Academic Success of Every Child is Supported In and Out of School

  • Increase access to quality in and out-of-school time opportunities
  • Support the development of systems for sharing data related to all cradle to career outcomes
  • Enhance understanding of college and career readiness requirements and opportunities for long term success
  • Promote awareness of the impacts of ACES on learning and development


Goal 3: Every Young Adult is Prepared for and Completes the Highest Level of Postsecondary Education or Training to Achieve their Career Goals

  • Promote and expand work-based learning opportunities by strengthening connections between education and industry
  • Increase the use of comprehensive education plans beginning in middle school that lead to career paths