Early Childhood Integration Forging a Shared Vision and Realistic Next Steps for Oregon

Early Childhood Integration Forging a Shared Vision and Realistic Next Steps for Oregon

Early Childhood Integration—forging a shared vision and realistic next steps for Oregon’s Professional Development System

DRAFT - Participant Agenda: Monday, January 30; 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Goals for the Day:
* Define our shared vision and commitment to cross-sector integration of Oregon's early childhood professional development system
* Build a common understanding of existing professional development "systems" and what has been achieved thus far
* Build our shared definitions for what we mean by: professional development (PD) system, our common work with children and families and who our PD system is serving, and cross-sector integration.
* Create our follow-up plan with next steps for execution (to be shared with the Early Learning Council)

Item / Facilitator / Time
Welcome
  • Meeting Goals and Painting the “Big Picture”
  • Introductions—When did you enter the field; what brought you into it?
/ Kara Waddell and Bobbie Weber
Future Search Timeline
A Timeline constructed by the group, representing the history of ECE/SAC in Oregon and of our PD system building successes and challenges / Billie Young
Building a Shared Context—Where We Stand Today
  • Briefings on PD systems
  • Head Start, Oregon Pre-K—Laurie Danahy
  • Child Care—Dawn Woods
  • Early Intervention, Early Childhood Special Education—Holly Reed Schindler
  • Home Visiting—Katherine Bradley
  • Update on Early Learning Standards—Dell Ford
/ Nancy Johnson-Dorn / 5 minutes each
Building a Shared Context—Where we are Going
  • National Trends—Billie
  • Race to the Top, Early Learning Challenge—Pam Deardorff
  • Early Learning Council, ELAC—Bobbie Weber
/ Billie Young
Building a Shared Context—Agreeing on Terminology
  • Survey Monkey Sez—a Report on Findings
  • Cross-sector, integrated PD System
  • Our common work
  • Who the PD system will serve
/ Billie Young
Future Search Timeline
Reviewing highlights and implications for the future / Billie Young
Small Group Planning
Cross-sector teams identify 3 steps we could take that are:
  • “low hanging fruit”/quick wins
  • more long-term, but we know we can do them
  • stretch goals that could be tough but will make a big difference if we can pull them off
/ Kara Waddell and Katherine Bradley
Group Sharing
3 of your best ideas / Billie Young
Closing: Where do we go from here? / Katherine Bradley and Kara Waddell