Education Leadership: Advancing Quality Pre-Kindergarten for All - Regional Meetings

These meetings are designed to provide professional development and technical assistance to state teams as they create strategic action plans to advance access and quality to the pre-kindergarten programs in their states.  Resources and presentations for the meetings can be accessed below. Advancing Prekindergarten in ALL STATES Meeting June 25-27, 2006 in Big Sky, Montana The meeting in Big Sky was designed to provide customized information and working time to assist in advancing prek in eight states:  Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.  Teams comprised of chief and deputy chief state school officers and their state early childhood directors, legislators, governors' representatives and child advocates convened to hear from experts and conduct planning to promote early childhood education in their states. General conference information Hyperlinked Agenda Speaker Presentations          ADVANCING QUALITY PRE-K FOR ALL (ppt-pdf)                      Sara Watson- Program Officer State Policy Initiatives                                                The Pew Charitable Trusts          BECOMING A CHAMPION FOR PREK--KEYNOTE ADDRESS                      Representative LeRoy Dangeau, Arkansas General Assembly          ADVANCING PREK FROM DIFFERENT BEGINNING-PANEL OF STATE MODELS                      Moderator--Stephanie Rubin, Pre-K Now                      Chief State School Officer—Lana Seivers, Tennessee                                                                        Commissioner of Education (TN)                      Child Advocate – Karen Schimke, Co-director, Winning Beginning NY                                                     Campaign and President and CEO, Schuyler Center for                                                     Analysis and Advocacy (NY)                      Legislator – Rep. Roger Eddy, Illinois General Assembly (IL)                      State Education Specialist – Ramona Paul, Assistant State Superintendent,                                                                          Oklahoma State Department of Education           SHAPING THE MESSAGE--ENGAGING “UNLIKELY” CHAMPIONS (ppt-pdf)                      DeDe Dunevant, Director of Communications, Pre-K Now                      Jeff Kirsch,  Vice President, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids           Montana Welcome from State Superintendent                       Linda McCulloch (ppt-pdf)           PREK SNAPSHOT: WHERE DO WE START? (ppt-pdf)                      Libby Doggett, Executive Director, Pre-K Now                      Steffanie Clothier, Program Director                                                       The National Conference of State Legislatures  (NCSL)                      Barbara Lussier, Executive Director, Office of Early Learning,                                                      Tennessee Department of Education           tHE Benefits and Context of High Quality, Universal Pre-k (ppt-pdf)                       Steve Barnett, Director, the National Institute for Early Education                                                Research (NIEER)           ASSURING SUCCESS FOR  ALL KIDS--Rural/Indian/ELL Issues                      Cathy Grace, Director of the National Center for Rural Early                                               Childhood Learning Initiatives  (ppt-pdf)                      Ramona Paul, Assistant State Superintendent,                                                 Oklahoma State Department of Education (ppt-pdf) WORKING TOOLS SUMMARY OF STATE ACTIONS Eastern States Regional Meeting October 25-27, 2005 Charleston, South Carolina The regional meeting for the easterm states was attended by 5 state teams, comprised of chief state school officers, deputy chiefs, state early childhood specialists, local and intermediate school district superintendents, and community partners.   General conference information Hyperlinked Agenda Speaker Presentations                   The Evidence We Need:  Prevention and Cost Effectiveness in Early Childhood                   Programs -- The Chicago Child Parent Centers Longitudinal Study,                   Arthur J. Reynolds                     Before and After PREK                   Why Birth to Three for School Success, Tammy Mann                   Getting SCHOOLS "Ready", Susan Taylor                   Transforming Learning Time:  Extended Learning to Support Student Success,                     Ayeola Fortune              Tending to the Domains of Early Learning                    Social and Emotional Learning -- Challenges and Opportunities for PREK,                    Jane Knitzer                    Early Mathematics Education, Herbert P. Ginsburg              Building a Successful State PREK Campaign                    The Pennsylvania Story,  Joan Benso                    The Arkansas Story, Paul Kelly Middle States Regional Meeting May 17-19, 2005 Ann Arbor, Michigan The regional meeting for the middle states was attended by 9 state teams, comprised of chief state school officers, deputy chiefs, state early childhood specialists, and local and intermediate school district superintendents.   General conference information Hyperlinked Agenda Speaker Presentations                  The Evidence We Need:  Perry Preschool at 40, Research Findings                               on the Benefits of High Quality Pre-K, Larry Schweinhart                  Issues of Culture, Language and Poverty in Supporting Successful                              Implementation of Pre-K, Lynson Beaulieu                  Issues of Accountability, Lindy Buch                  Issues of Accountability, Tom Schultz                  The Importance of Assessing Children's Progress, Susan Landry                  Illinois Pre-K, Jerome Stermer and Kay Henderson                  Wisconsin Pre-K, Jill Haglund and Rick Grobschmidt Summary of State Actions  Western States Regional Meeting October 12-14, 2004 Portland, Oregon The regional meeting for the western states was attended by state teams representing 11 states and 2 territories.  In addition to chiefs and local superintendents, this meeting was also convened in conjunction with the Council's Ready Schools Project.  Visit the project site for additional information on Ready Schools.    General conference information Agenda Speaker Presentations (pdf)                  Leadership at All Levels:  Characteristics of Successful Leadership in                            Advancing Pre-K, Vicki Phillips                  All Together Now:  State Experiences Using Community-Based Child                            Care to Provide Pre-Kindergarten, Rachel Schumacher                  Culturally Appropriate Reading Curriculum, Denny Hurtado                  Place Matters:  Addressing the Needs of Special Populations for                             School Readiness, Charles Bruner                  Early Learning and Low Income Children:  Lessons from                              Research, Jane Knitzer                  Pre-Kindergarten:  An "Inside" and "Outside" Game,                             Libby Doggett and Ramona Paul             Resource List Working Tools Summary of State Actions

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