A key, key areas that are seen within our field now. And thinking about that, and thinking about how the council can play an integral part, continue to be a very integral voice. You know what it is that decisions are being made across our city. Our we have our voice heard because our waste is that the City of Wilmington providers didn't. So in order for us to gift that, we have to talk with them and include them in our work that we did here, right? So one of the things that we know we definitely always need is that family engagement piece, whether we call it that, or whether we kind of have another kind of subheading for that. But we definitely always need to have the voice of our favorites, right, be a part of what it is that we're doing. And so if I may, I'd like to kind of get your feedback on what other areas do you think would kind of be an overarching title, if you will, for is that we want to have as our focus for the Council. And of course, realizing definitely don't want to extend ourselves, want to have things that we are able to actually did. May I say Whitney, that within all of those areas of theme of week for the past several years, I mean, I think always, but particularly in the passably several years with Dr. Sanders was networking and collaboration, which is super, super important. And we all know each other. So we have it. We have a new friend here today and immediately I was like, I need to find out who that is because I know everybody who comes in here. Welcome Lindsey by the way. So that piece I think is important and needs to remain. What I'm wondering is how we might shift the way that we do it to make space for some of the other things that what he was talking about, particularly that public well, peace and advocacy. That's a that's a place that I think is really important for weekend was part of its original mission that maybe has gotten a little bit lost. Not for any of us individually, but as a, as a united voice, as a council, we haven't we haven't been taking a whole bunch of positions on what's going on and there's a lot going on. So I've been just I've been just bouncing around in my head over the past couple of weeks. Just how do we keep the collaboration that we do with the round robin and Lynn sharing information and still make space for for some other pieces. So so I just wanted to throw that out there. Yeah, Definitely. Anyone else have any ideas? So we have the family engagement piece that we know we want to keep. You will, as Leah has shared it. Also keeping that piece of whether or not we call it that or not, whether we want to have another title to it. Sorry, I had to find a space. But actually, you know, what key areas that do we want to continue? I see you send a put her hand up and how civilized. A I'm the loud mouth from St. Michael's. I think all of what you said, one of the things that I have learned in the past actually pass especially the past two years before that, is that there are a lot of wheels in the state that move very slowly. So I think that focusing on things that we, as the City of Wilmington and the providers can do together to collaborate, which I also I'm sorry, I don't think that's a real strength of this state is collaboration. So if we could be that, that example of how we all get together, how we work together. I think that would be wonderful. My main focus would be and it is right now for St. Michael's is workforce development. I know one of the last conversations I had with Dr. Sanders and I certainly did not know her the way a lot of you folks did, but I I feel very fortunate to have been touched with her and to some extent is we talked about the CDA. We talked about I talked about getting some of our folks that I've already gone through it who already have their degree to become specialists. And I know she felt very strongly about that. So that would be my, you know, my kind of go-to saying that we we think about as a council, how we can move our workforce together. Really Yeah, I agree. Really important. And I mean, paddies doing a lot of work in that position. I feel that we have we have a good foundation for that with with paddies work and the resource center and her partnerships with with the DEC. But yeah. Completely loosen the I agree with that. I think now I think what I'm kind of getting at is, is kind of the nuts and bolts after the resource and Patty's been wonderful by the way. And a couple of my photos app for scholarships. She answers right away. I do. Just as an aside, I have to Read open Tuesday after three weeks of closed because of COVID. Now, over half of my staff had COVID after the a. So we're still kind of getting back into this. But I I'm, I'm thinking along the lines of how do we formalize cohorts, did, do the kind of things that John's die. I can't say enough about that. Dionne doing coaching and mentoring. And she had three or five people during the pandemic to get to the the end of their CDA. So we have the models in front of us. I just think with that we need to join together. And if someone if someone says, Hey, I've got two folks, I need that, I think we are ready for their CDA excuse me, but need the support of other folks or need to study hall once a week at St. Michael's library. I'm happy to to be a proctor. I did that. I was an RA in college, I can do that. But those kinda practical nuts and bolts things. So that's all I'm talking too much. I had too much coffee. Sorry. So to kind of piggyback on that list. And so yes, so the model that I have just begun is modeled after Dionne to work with. The cohort model, is done exactly the same, but it's in a similar vein. And then we have cohorts, also, the IEC that are also offering. But I agree with you, we, we need to have lots and lots of opportunities for people to choose from the best meet their needs. Yeah, So I'm hearing like the piece above the connections and the collaboration that we can do within this group to sort of to support each other and each other's staff's is what I'm hearing from Lucinda. But also, Yes, we do this work. And there's, you know, there's a little bit of a I don't I can only think of the words with it. And that's not really what I want to say here. But as as I think most of you know, we kept gets a significant amount of our funding from the state and we are attached to state initiatives around the CDA. Patty is working with a Liao on her work in that capacity. We have a contract with them. So some of those things that are challenges at the state level, we're connected to them. And so that's just, that's just another piece of the puzzle to keep in consideration. Speaking of the state, Debbie Taylor, I see your hand is up. Yes. I think Lucinda has set a new standard. I like I like Aldon. You're okay. Don't done next after Devon. A data unit it You're on mute. So there's so much happening obviously in our, in our great state regarding new staff coming to the appropriate education programs that we're currently house to other departments moving to DOE. So opportunities for collaboration, cooperation, participation, et cetera. And then two things I want to share. There's a lot of exciting legislation that's coming. And I know as a council, we can't formerly support legislation, but we as individuals representing our organizations, or as Delaware citizens can support legislation. So there are exciting things happening in their early childhood early childhood world regarding legislation such as lowering the special education unit count from 12.8 children per teacher. I'll say that again in special ed or early childhood in public school, 12.8 children per teacher. That's our ratio, doesn't meet stars or licensing guidelines. That legislation has been filed. And so we'll need people who can speak to the inappropriateness of that ratio. I can pop in the chat. And another piece of legislation that's coming soon is like oral health legislation for our youngest children to make sure all children have access to oral health screening. Tons of research regarding those of us who've worked in headstart, e, cap, et cetera. We know how important access to oral health is. Right now, oral health programming for young children is voluntary and so people can choose to do it or not if they're not e cap or headstart. So efforts to make sure that all torn have access to these high-quality services which are free to children and families. Other things like regarding developmental screening, there's a lot happening and what I wanted you what I would encourage us to do is to be we are the experts because we're the ones working with children and families every day. And so to be able to not only give testimony when there are committee hearings, maybe you can't do that with your job. But if you live in Delaware, you're, you're, you're a citizen. And you can contact your legislators and say, I am a person who works with young children in this capacity. Necessarily name where you work. But saying, You know, I've worked with four-year-olds who come to us who already had had had teeth pulled because Oral decay. And you're this legislation will make sure that all children have access to health care, things like that. I'm making templates for those kinds of things for my, for my colleagues where I work. And I'm happy to share them with all of you. You can copy paste it, put your name in there. But these are things that can go so far. We know like oral health children have not been able get to the data. It's during COVID. And here in public school. We're seeing four year olds who have, who have not been to the dentist and we're seeing or will decay and it's heartbreaking because we know that this preventable. So anyway, I could talk about it all day, but these are the kinds of things I'd like to certainly have us look at the health of our young children. Things that are available already for free. What do we already doing for free that we can promote? What's already available in the community. Like developmental screening is free. It's free for every child and della birth to five. Let's make sure families on how to access it. And then something else I want to share and I see the cases here, so I'm glad that she's here from Delaware. So really looking at the connectedness and listen to you talked about Are we still have a lot of work to do as far as collaboration, cooperation, closed-loop referrals, et cetera. So that kind of work that's happening in Delaware, how we can support that because we know that when I know when I worked with a family and you all know this, you work with a family and you're working with maybe a three or four-year-old who may have a disability and family needs help with applying for purchase of care for aftercare. Family also may need help accessing the food bank or the clothing bank or home visiting, you name it with it. So being able to have that continuity of care, that connectedness, the more that we as a group can do to support that. So we take the burden off of our families and then we're able to make those referrals for families, the data. So thank you all for listening. Like those are the things I'd like to see us really focus on. So it's almost like wood families come to us and they share their story with us. We can then help support them make the referrals. And we're not asking them to make 20 phone calls. You know, we're creating a system where they they share with one of us. And then whoever that entry person is, we are able to help them. We can by putting information into a system that's confidential. Hipaa FERPA, you know, meets all the guidelines, then found is you can get the support once they they agree, once they provide consent. Again, so they don't have to call Twain for agencies. So thank you. That's my $0.02 for sets dawns on me. Whitney? No. I was going to say because Debbie had had her hand up as well, so I wanted to give her the floor. Thank you, Leah. What I wanted to say is and I know how hard this would be is to be represented other councils or meetings or whatever that are happening in the state. I mean, I'm sorry, in the city. For instance, we know there's a Wilmington count, so against I don't know what it is now. I'm sorry, but it's part of the United Way. I'm going Agile like a hedge that council and Whitney, you're probably familiar with that. And maybe you are on some of these. But I think there's an opportunity. We used to have somebody from United Way represented here. But, you know, to find out who's not here and maybe where we need to be. Wilmington rotary, I know is doing a lot of work, but I think it's out, you know, in a different way. Again, knowing that's very difficult because we only have a few paid positions for weak act, but that's just a thought. Thank you. Yes. It's a, it's a good thought. Something that we shouldn't wanted to share. Think about a little more. What was that? Like? I thought Daphne daphne does have her hand up. Go ahead. Of me. Yes, I do. I also want to add with and I agree with all that I heard when I wasn't kicked off the computer. I agree with all that I've heard, but I'd also like to add in I'd like to see parent education as a part of, you know, in that too, because we can't advocate with our parents understanding why we're advocating for these issues. Like why, you know, explaining to them and then having them. I know that's a hard task. The advocacy part, but also pair education. It's, it's hard enough. I was decided a conversation with my colleague, one of my colleagues here at Faith. I mean, to say, even just explain to a pair it you know, why the AS Q is less than how them filling out the ASU effects. Like what happens not only in the city, but what it would stay, gets acted upon. And resources, resource allocation and things like that. We in the field understand why certain things are important. But I don't think that our parents necessarily understand while they are, why they're important. Because they understood they will be more engaged and more involved. So somehow educating parents needs to be in there too, in the mix of it. I think that's the lowest level. Like if we start there, then can build upon it. Not saying that we don't act upon things right away. But it can't be just this force of people. These what I don't have any on here nights and people that are on the call now. It needs to be a grassroots piece if we figure out how to do that even amongst the work that we all are doing, their guess that, you know, we are all strong proponents of parent education. Being here, representing for parents or teachers for so long. And also our Head Start programs. All of those pieces in occluded for the parents, we act to have that component as a source of priority for our work. And if you don't mind, I've wondered if I may share Leah of an old piece of a brochure that we had that kind of captures what the warmer areas where. So if you if you can see this was a brochure in this kind of brings us to a, we had, you know, in, in some of the pieces with nasa much but marketing basically to bring a presence council, I think we talked about that as well. Where we're having some form of whether it's a brochure website or something of that nature that actually speaks to who we are, what we stamp or, you know, gives a presence for our existence. And you all can't see that little baby there, but that is my baby girl. So at the time she was born in October 2003. And so being a part of the council that came with the privilege of using my big jacket time to be the marketing piece. And they will also billboards at the time. So she had a little highlight there before she denies it. So at that time, that was what we had or the council little kids big plans scribing for positive outcomes for children, families and early care and education professionals. There something that exists as somewhat of a framework, if you will, for us to build on, revitalize, you know, right? Right. And so at that point, these are the three areas that I was mentioning that were captured in. And I think everything that we've said, you know, kind of fit in one way or another in these categories if we want to continue to use them or enhanced them in some way. And so when thinking about professional development, if he's always looking to continue to add that. And I could say that we could maybe look to consider using the language of professional learning of some sort, having that professional learning type a title. Also an area of family engagement passively now, including family and community engagement and education. So that could include the parenting education components that we're talking about and also the partnerships and continually allowing that network and collaboration that we've always had as a part of the council could actually fall under that as well. But we kind of extend the title we're bit and then the public will, if in fact we may want to look every biasing back East, but you can see some of the bullets there that, that kind of focus on. So as Dawn was mentioning all of those important components, this this would be where we could look at placing those items that we would want to focus on and help bring awareness to the importance of that could be where that kind of comes in. So it's not so much bringing us to an area that we're not, you know, are crossing the lines in any political arenas, but we're also. Just making note of what we want to bring awareness to you now. And so this is just an example of, of, of a framework of some sort that we could look at what we currently have and where you want it though. It kind of been thinking about if the council would want to consider having another type of publicity piece that expresses who we are, you know, kind of gives us, gives us life. It gives us a presence that any one of us as members of this council could always have and and send out even if we're members now of this council, is it that we include that in our signature lines within our emails, certain things that we can look to do to continue to bring the presence of someone might say, wow, what's, what's, what's, she's a part of that or he's a part of that because now it's a part of our messaging that we even put out. Many of us have our own organizations logos, you know, within our signature lines, but we could also consider for those of us that are voting members to be able to have that included as a presence as well, so that it always stays with us, even within our own positions. That we're always representing that in our messaging and our, you know, who you are, and a privilege that we didn't have to be a part of this council. I love that idea. Whitney. I'm about to go change my signature right now. Yeah. And so that even that, you know, the logo it the logos got 120 years old, you know. And so those are things to now that we could look at as a council to see it. Do we keep that Nogot? Do we to have someone that's a new one? You know, there's, there's opportunities for things here that we can decide and even having passively a subcommittee. So those three areas we could look to divide ourselves into and be able to kind of work on these things that we might want to then bring the meeting and every meeting we can have of reporting out of those particular areas. Scrape. Amanda, you have your hand up. Yeah. I wanted to comment on both what Whitney was talking about, about messaging around getting the word out about keck. I know. I don't recall how I came to attend the meeting the first time here. And I don't know that I would have stumbled across it in general, so someone must have invited me, but I don't recall who. I think those personal invitations, combined with general messaging would really help to rho the attendance and the advocacy efforts that you all are talking about, 100000 gate. And the other thing I want to comment on is that I really have found the interconnections that happened here to be very valuable. So in addition to the advocacy pieces We Keck has done for me over the past couple of years. It's helped me to know who's doing what kind of work in the area and it's the kind of work that would be easy to not know about because everybody's got their own piece, but it all connects. So there's the social emotional learning piece, there's the legislative piece, there's the special education piece, there's the licensing piece. There's like Delaware stars and CDA at advanced learning piece. And I find that there's a lot of overlap in who's doing what. But it would be very easy without we CAC, to sort of just do your thing and not know about the other things. And so I want to typically name that as something that I think is a strength and his legible. Right. So when you want to do that advocacy, what you have are all of these different people from all of these different perspectives who are listening and paying attention. And then have that network to go back out to and gather support and resources. And I know you all know that, but I feel like people are talking around it and I wanted to specifically name that, that overlap and that communication and that connection is what I find really powerful in this space. More so than perhaps anything else. And I think continuing to grow that and continuing to reach out is something that would be really valuable. Did that they're only hearing? Yes, I've been I've been lowering hymns for people because it makes me feel productive. Does Does anyone else have something they wanted to add at this time before I have I have a couple of thoughts. Hi, Diane. Hi, course. I have to say I completely agree with what Amanda just said. I think there's a lot of opportunities out there where if there's different projects or community outreach where their materials and things that could be almost like shared with the group. And then others might say, Oh, well, I can give that to my program or I know these children. And then the whole, like counsel can like share in this. Well, we reached this many families because of this. So I think like there's just a lot to be said in the sharing of information and tapping into the resources that are already available. I thought I think Elizabeth put something in there about like pear classes that are being offered. And it's like not reinventing the wheel, using the resources that are out there. What's already been done, what's fits into the larger states plan. And then kind of like fitting that into the Wilmington area. Just don't want to see any duplicate efforts that are happening in the state. 100% Diane and not some. And that's where I'm at as well where I've been. And I see that your hands up. I just need a second to throw together some of the thoughts I'm having as I'm listening. As most of you know, Whitney and I are serving as chairperson, a vice chairperson of this council right now. And we we try to communicate between meetings and sort of get a sense of this vision. But we're both really the busy, but she's really busy. I'm kind of busy. Candidates that it's difficult for us to even come together. The two of us to discuss some of these things. So and, and, you know, all these things that were saying about sending people to different committees while they're good ideas, everybody knows that that's what's difficult about that is that everyone who works in our kind of jobs are always stretched too thin. So I'm seeing these buckets, believe it or not, for the first time, Whitney. The three buckets that you mentioned. And I think that that is a really nice way to organize the work that we do. And I'll repeat what I said before about the public will piece because in the professional development piece, in the family community engagement piece, I see a lot of that already happening here within this group with partnerships that we have with the presence of all of these individuals. And we could think about a way to organize our messaging to, to clear up exactly how we're already doing work in those areas. And of course we can add to it like for instance, what what Beth put in the chat about parenting classes. That's the kind of thing where you were talking before about where things fall in our buckets. Beth comes to the to the council and says they Children Families First is is offering these these parenting classes. Do, does we wanted to do a cohort and try and recruit people? Or is this just something that we that we advocate for in the community? We we we we put out information within our programs, et cetera. So I think that those pieces are already pretty strong. I think that we we don't organize that information enough that everybody knows that we're, that we're already doing that. But that public will piece is, is the piece that I think that we really need to work on, I guess as a council where, where we really need to make some more space for that. And, you know, all of the things that Don was saying about best practices, you know, I might be I'm coming at this from a headstart perspective. So when I hear what John is saying, It's like, well, yeah, that's what we do every single day. And to and to focus on those kinds, on those specific, specific kinds of things to me would be reductive. Because we already know that this group already knows that. We don't need to push those things on each other. We have to push those things into the community. And we're already doing that in our respective roles and our and our professional jobs. So that's why, in my opinion, the public will piece is the is the biggest piece that we need to think about as a council. Okay, I'm done. Keita, you have Uganda? I I'm Keita and I would have harmed Elizabeth because she had her hand up first. How did she has? I didn't have my hand up cuz I'm technology illiterate. I just put in the chat. How? Well, they can't raise my hand, but there it is. Sorry. Go ahead. Okay. So I just wanted to get a little clarification. Are you saying with the public will that you want like weak X name out there more. So people are more aware of we Keck and what they're doing. Well, that yes. And also the messaging of the importance of early childhood education, you know, right? Talking, dance. Go, Go ahead. Well, I was just thinking when I when I brought up the parenting cohort. I was kinda thinking along the same lines as Diane with using what is already being out there by having it sponsored by weak AC, right? Like, like organizing the cohort. So we CAC as publicizing this cohort to family in Wilmington. So that now we have a group of families that we can get our messaging too. You know, as they're joining this, these cohorts or something, You see what I'm saying? Like yeah, that thing, using that as part of the messaging or part of a way to get more direct contact with the parents, even though CFF might be doing actual class. If you had a meeting a week at a meeting for people who want to join the cohort. You know, you get like access to them and then you pass them on to the cohort. But it gives you kind of like hands-on to be able to, to get one-on-one with the families to deliver some of that messaging. That make sense? Yeah. Yeah, that's where I was kind of yeah, because it wouldn't cost money for we Keck because we're utilizing these programs that are already funded and free and their workers deliver it, right? But it's getting our name out in the community more so that we can get our message and our visibility out there more. That I see that along the same lines as what Whitney was saying about putting it in our email signatures. Those of us who are who are members of the council, to be able to identify ourselves to other people in the community as members of this council gets the name out there. I apologize when I looked in the chat, what you said, I misinterpreted that sponsorship piece. I love bot. That's okay. It's hard to write all of that in the chat, so that is kinda where my mind was going, but I wasn't sure if that was along the lines of what you were thinking with the public. Well, what I personally, I'm not thinking much because this is not my area of expertise, but I mean, I I know that I know that it's important and I know that it's a piece. You know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a phrase that I've heard thrown around in these in these rooms for years and years and years. And I just know it's been it's been a difficult thing to do. I think social media would also be a really good piece to get your message. And now, I don't know if the full-time staff how to know how to do that or if someone can volunteer to manage something. But even if something is put out once a week about what we're trying to get across to families. And even if all of us share it, you know, it's gonna, it's gonna trickle through the community. I don't know if there's like thymines delight, pay for someone to do that or I don't know any of that, but I think it would be really good just to have some kind of a social media presence for the providers, aim for families? Yeah. Yes. We absolutely agree. We we've had we've had those pieces before. And then yeah. And they've they've kind of gotten lost. So yeah. We certainly don't have money to hire someone additional, but we could we could just add that to lens plate because she loves to do more, right? When 0, 0, and 1 little bends down. And Siri LEA in the chat, in my next questions, as far as organizing ourselves at this point, or if we agreed to those three areas and even revising the names of them as such. You know, the public will can stand. It may be family engagement, family community engagement and education. And what I would propose and then the professional development to be professional learning. I don't know if, you know, because that can include our scholarships continually. Back up again, it won't wanna kinda see that piece and I can definitely malware as well. And you know, looking at this as a foundational piece, I had to dig it up. It's like, you know, almost 20 years old. So best benefit is still keeping certain things on your desktop or in there somewhere. But and then so if there aren't interest areas, then the committee members have or council members and friends to want to break ourselves up during this time and been kind of come back at our next with some proposed EIP yields. One of them could be we also eat that type of a president social media wise with marketing, if once we get this piece to develop some type of documents, electronic one, as well as in a heart happens or might be a great idea. So if we want to kind of go, We do have Jiangxi joining us at 1015, so there's a little bit of time for us to discuss it. Um, and then as we move forward, it would give us some beautiful structure to be able to now operate according to our bylaws and bringing ourselves forward to upgrade our meetings as a council where we were presenting motions and things of that nature in already in so we'll look to move ourselves to that place kind of after we get this piece, kind of resetting ourselves. Well, according to our current bylaws, the vice-chair person who's in charge of all committee work. Yeah. I just call myself out. There's also the logo to Leah. Fabulous. Yeah. I have that to somewhere. Yeah. So it's very old now. But it was, you know. But yeah. That's something that they want to consider if we'd like to revise that. Are, you know, Mr. Boone also has some great talent there, but a good one. Midst of ascii for some of that sound like that? Yeah. Upon the council white friends to be able to help out if that already identified herself. Thank deputy. Where family and community engagement and public lives, he's interested in that as anyone else want to put it in the chat when you capture that, whereas you will land on one of your areas of interest in the chat, that would be fabulous. Yeah. Not and I can and I can take the lead on just making sure the different groups get organized. Since the bylaws say that that's my job. 00 00 00 to that pressure wave. Is Patty still here? He wants Patti. I wanted to comment on on a man had said earlier about the certain buckets and making them becoming clearer. And I see myself fitting, at least unite us, fitting into that resource bucket of knowing what exists within the community and being able to log in to a platform and know exactly what resources exist, and what zip code, and what community and what county to really serve. And being able to, as Don said before, to seamlessly refer an individual family, astute it to that resource and have that end-to-end solution. Because so many times we're working with so many students and they need certain things. We don't always know where they are on the journey. So being able to know that have that care coordination where you knowing that this individual in this family were referred to a parenting class or were they were referred to when early education program or they were referred to the height, the dental program, like knowing that and having that care coordination could be key in how you all serve on the Council too. Being able to tell community members, we can help you with resources along the way. Because we know that these resources are available. In addition to knowing what resources are available, you also are able to know where the gaps are in services. So I hope you all will attend our information session and learn more about what unites us is. But unite us is statewide to make sure that we are all connected, whether it's from the government sector, the non-profit sector, the community center sector, and the education sector to make sure that we know what resources are available within our communities to be able to serve the community members we care for so much. Thanks for sharing that data. It would, it would be wonderful if you would be willing to participate. And some family and community engagement committee that we're trying to form up, would you would you would you have any interest in that shoe? I would love to learn more about it burst my counterpart what my counterpart will probably be excited to joy because we are both on granting the state together and I'm on the eastern shore, but I would love to learn more so that we can discuss and be able to commit to being on the council and really engaging the state and engaging community members to getting them access. Work on it. We're kind of thrown together as we go along here. So I'm buying it from an elder. Keep you in mind. Yes, I will give you the money or these, many of these I can RL when WhatsApp land by linear mentioned having folks let me know their area of interests based on our different categories. That the two, It's important for us to kinda know what you're already interested in or doing. In other words, just the other day yesterday I was with daisies advocacy group. And it's it's good to know from each person what else are you involved and what else do you participate in? Now, even if you do that the deck me did, you know, it's just important to know where you know where we are. Foolish representing us. No, I didn't represent we CAC with days because I'm a DC member. But now it's important to be there and do things and be on committees. But I would love to a compile a list of people who let me know. I could put an email out and say, what do you already do and what your interests and what would you be interested in being on a committee? And we can name the different committees. So that's what I was thinking. Well, I'm discuss together. And they bring to the attention of what Debbie I've done the chat and I believe someone else did it earlier in that we be more apart the existing state council and not be so much. So as an adolescent, you were given five minutes it will to bring some what of our announcements of things like bad, messy, Mary shaking her head. Yeah. And so by reading, this is a part of what we now want to do, bring more of our presence and our ET that's a priority here in this state forward. And so part of that would be that we then as a council or representatives of some of us, to be able to be a part of the planning of the states, counts for agendas. And so what are the things that, you know will be included in that so back and be a part of that public will team as well. And so where we want to see ourselves in. So even ask me, may show up in that in their planning meetings or some sort that say we're represented, it's up to Wilmington are Care and Education Council. We also have an area of public will that work once you know that we want to bring to the table here in this work or some, somewhat, but there's just been not a lot of, as people have shared, not a lot of collaboration. I like to think not intentional, but not a lot of collaboration of opportunities or even necessities, council and our well-being to counselors to be a part of the fleeting and presenting, you know, for the State Council. And we can possibly do something about that as we are now with this new year. Yeah. Well, there are a number of individuals here that attend the deck meetings regularly, correct? I know Mary, you're a member of the deck, are you not? I'm I'm an Ad Hoc member. And Dr. Sanders used to be a member, So has somebody replaced her? Was she a member on behalf? A recap. I thought so. I don't I don't know if she was a member. It's confusing because she was a member. You're on mute again, Debbie? Oh, yeah. Okay. Because I know like the collab office is a voting member. I mean, I know whoever's in that possession is a voting member. And then there are ad hoc like Mary said. So and maybe part of it is introduced when we introduce ourselves to also say that we participate in. If we can't, maybe that's a way to to show like a dual role. And Lucinda just said she's a member as well. So how great. Yeah. I really like this dual role bit. I mean, you know, not I, I don't know about the rules of voting like I own about doing a vote on behalf of week heck, but as far as as far as bringing information between the two counsels, I know that there are several of you that are active here and also active there. So Whitney, when you talk about Those, are you Are you suggesting like that? We should have voting representation on the State Council? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We need to have more be more veins are especially for what we represent. And knowing again, that we've talked about the voice of our community here, Wilmington. Yes. I don't disagree. I just don't know where we begin that conversation as the Southern council also have voting rights. So there's the Keck also can't and sex and so it can't in Sussex have a vote on there then that would be the way you start that conversation. I'm just going to stay like that's like a shoe or it may have been actually international. See Keq or a Sikh. I don't remember how they say their name. Also, that happens in the southern part. Yeah, there's a I didn't know that was part of I know there was a Sussex council. Is is this the same counselor you're talking about candidates? So some of the folks from can't go to the next council we've seen, I would say when we've attended and we don't attend there as regularly as we attend here. We tint here every time and we attend there about every fourth time. And we've seen some folks from Kent at the Ethics Council, but not as many. It's mostly sessile. The Council is primarily for Suffolk County. It does crossover with some people that have responsibilities across Canton Suffix County, but Kant does not have their own counsel at all. The Delaware Early Childhood Council has a similar system like this is where you have to meet each criteria. So they have to have representation from all of the different entities. And so it's listed on the website. So you can kind of go there and see who's representing each one of those areas. Thank you, Diane. And we can find out. Okay. Definitely. What is E-flat? Yeah, I'm glad you asked. I was a lad at segue us a daily health coalition kind of coordinates E, which is the Early Learning Action. I can't remember what it stands for. But those two meetings happen at the same time, like meeting that Sussex County Health Coalition pulls together of early learning providers and E-flat, which is more like the the directors. Am I right? Mary Mary comes to those meetings like I do. They come together and are sort of like our counterpart. It says it's County. I have not seen kit have a, a candle soul like that so far. But Sussex in and US are pretty much, we do the same thing. They almost do the same thing that we do here, or as we have in the past, as far as providing collaboration opportunities for people to present. Things like that. Haven't really. I think they too would like to get into advocacy more, but habit yet either. So it might be interesting to talk to those on Christine. Slick, huh? I forget or pristine Ollie. Ollie. She is the one marked order chairs that so you may want to yeah. I have talked with arms in so go back again. Then I was I was going to suggest that our team have discussion in and around that a, B, and C. And we want to establish a meeting of some sort with the deck chair or, you know, and it wouldn't statistics as well. So we can all talk at the same time. And then I think, Jennifer, you have suggestions for having a survey to identify areas of interests of the members? Can you give me an idea of what the survey might include outside? I just thought it would prioritize like we could put the three committees and then each of us could say, one is my preference, three is my last preference. And that would allow leadership to more equally divide the working groups. Maybe we all have strengths and all of these areas, but then there's preferences, right? So then that would also allow us to state what else were involved in the communities. And then I will just capture all of that rather than chatroom and texts and emails and things like that. Yes, that's a great idea, is we can create like a Google for a survey and send that out as well. If you could look to create that. Thank you. Jennifer, adaptive. Great. Yeah. So we've got some great ideas. I'm excited about, you know, our forward. So one of the things that we know will do it will create that survey that includes those three areas that we're proposing and get your interests were serving on those committees. And then maybe we'll look to develop our agenda around what we'll be able to share out. And Mr. Boone, Thank you. He's offered to help us if we would like to have a new law established and he can help us with that. I thank him in advance, but that seems are talented young man had skill set is so good like a dinosaur in the age of technology in some way. So creating certain things are not my forte. So he's a great photographer. I learned within B here at us. And yet some other hidden talents. So we appreciate if he's able to offer goes to us as well. So from that land, if we will look to create There's the survey. We use it inside the district with their Google Docs that are able to create surveys. We could do it that way. Or we can use a Survey Monkey of some sort. So we're very simple type of survey that can capture everyone's area of interest in serving on committees. And also ask, as Jennifer shared, what areas that they have that contribute. And so as we kind of laugh at this piece out, we will have Mr. John, she had who will be joining us at 1015. And so he's going to talk with us as we shared last time we were together About be Wilmington learning collaborative. That is going forward here in our state or community here in Wilmington, which we, again, we would be a very important voice to contribute to that. We're, as we have for early care and education within our public systems of what they're proposing this plant too. But also all of our sites within the community of Wilmington who contribute and be education and support to the children who attend the programs, if not siblings, or who will ultimately be in the program. And so there voices important right now what has happened? The governor had presented to our Cristina for and he's doing so at each one of the SEP or just on is representative of the reading consortium. So she can also share any questions or so that we may have Jiangxi here will be here to present what is going on so far. So be presented to our district again last Tuesday and art district agree to have the conversations going forward. Our board let me say that our board agree to have the conversations go forward about a memorandum, a partnership of some sort. So there you know, there's nothing I analyzed at this point. Dylan, do you want to have any fit to share before John joins us? Sure. Hi everybody. So I were quite a few hats. And a member of the consortium committee. That is, where does the social determinants of health committee has the early childhood or group within it. So I'm a member of that committee and we have had the opportunity to speak with different members of the gift from the governor's office about the Wilmington learning collaborative and specifically about early childhood. One of the things that I couple things I raised. One is that we have children who are attending high-quality programs in the community that are not part of the school district. And we need to acknowledge that that does partnerships need to take that needs to continue. We don't want this if districts move forward this, we want to make sure that children are not pulled from the high-quality early learning program where they're currently attending. So that's really important that we include if you know what, we're talking about, high-quality. So let's look at E capitalist. Let's look at what the state determines is high-quality and wow, that are public preschool programs meet those standards. And we need to make sure that when we have early learning partners be at a childcare that is for-profit or non-profit, be it a headstart, et cetera. We want to make sure that we're not negatively impacting their early childhood programs that are already in the community and doing serving children well. So I think that resonates with all of you, right? So so that is something I brought up at reading and I'm also a DACA executive board member. So I brought it up as a union member in early learning that we are working. I serve on the inclusion committee of deck. So your deck has an inclusion committee I ensure, encourage all of you. It's called the easy I see committee, early childhood inclusion committee. The committee just like working another committee of deck or a subgroup. I think we're both QA committees, but the idea of inclusion committee we talk about if a child is already in a childcare center, headstart, public or private preschool and non-profit. And this is the program the family has selected. This is the program at the family selected. They're serving the child well, families were happy there. Maybe they have a couple siblings there. We don't want the family to feel like to receive their special education services. They have to get pulled out of that center to get their services. Instead, it's best practice for the service provider to go to the center, right? So we know that as the inclusion model that's fake. While FAPE is free and appropriate public education with the LRE is the least restrictive environment and that's what we follow in special education, early childhood, we'd make sure children can stay in that center. Same thing goes for Wilmington learning collaborative. So this is what I've brought up to the two. The governor's office is that same model of so is it that we either as either a partnership, where can you, can you share when we like, when we hear because you have more knowledge about it, then maybe most. But if you would mind by being able to kind of give us some, if it's because John is want to share your presentation. And then what I think will be able to do with the knowledge that we have is to be able to see where we want. As a council said, like you share bring forth after we hear the presentation. Because you're able to give us some additional insight for some of the committees and councils that you have. Saddened one and then sharing that information because I think what you're sharing is so valuable and being able to now help educate us a bit more in depth. And then be able to allow us to make decisions to be the voice, collect debris from the ounces side, not so much from bike share from your seat that you sit in their colonial or my CD, even that I sit here and Christina, but that we are able to now give the information, what are the facts as it might lead to with me, he affecting our children and families. You know what I mean? And so even moist air in how servicing our early learners with disabilities and how the service providers, which hour, which are our speech and language, our occupational therapists and physical therapists will have to also serve within our schools. They also aren't the same providers that have to go out and serve in our local community center. And so one of the things that may not always be supported or even made aware, sitting in K2 Health District where I find is that the council could be their support have been being able to help help understand the K12 systems, understand the needs of our providers. Because it it, you know, there's a great need for many providers and how they work with children with disabilities, right? So that's one piece right there. So I do see that John is here. Welcome John. If we want to go ahead and shift. Hello. Okay. I do say that John is, you know, when we first opened this site here at stubs, John was one of the people that was here before. We opened it. Very integral part in helping to plan and here the needs of what was necessary and helped to see that it happened. As much as just this beautiful playground. I'm looking out the window, I can see. That is one of the things fatty will agree that I will say that I have to have John to thank for his contributions of really help. And things happen here in this stubs Early Education Center. If you all haven't come here to see if I Sadie, they have to comment. Visit. So John, thank you so much. We're just your willingness to be here with us this morning. Absolutely. I'm I'm a huge Whitney Williams fan just so everyone knows. So it makes, makes things very easy to support the incredible work that, that is going on. It's so good morning, everyone. Whitney. I have a quick PowerPoint that I'll I'll zip through if that's alright, and then they're split it up for questions. And Don has been a great partner in this. She has already seen this a few times. So I'll try to I'll try to spice it up dawn to keep it. You've been interesting here. So let me just share my screen here quickly. All right, Can folks see my screen? All right. So I'll, I'll give you sort of like the abridged version and then, and then really want to have a conversation just about, about this in general and particularly hear your expertise. Don already shared some really amazing stuff about how this sort of 0 to 5 world can partner with this app burden. And we can really make sure that our youngest learners or a region kit regarded have had that high-quality experience. And that's something that I certainly want to leave your expertise for sale. Want me to learning collaborative is something that you probably hopefully have heard us talking about over the past few months. We've held. So 130 calls, Zooms, town halls, engage in opportunities and so hopefully you've heard a little bit about it. This is our proposed approach to taking the next step to, to support schools, children and families in the City of Wilmington. So you all know this very well, but we have a lot of challenges in, in City Wellington School is in, and we have this fragmented nature of the city where you have Christina, a brand new wine, red clay, and you have these lines that children can move one or two blocks and end up an entirely different district. And my colleague, Jim Simons, who's a former principal, always has stories about his relationships with other principles because. Children would move a neighborhood and end up in brand new wine from red clay. And we also know that the facilities as what you mentioned, you know, going into this a few years ago, the facilities were absolutely not where they needed to be for children and educators. So we put a lot of effort into that amazing facility that stubs and the beautiful playground. Interests folks, no, buyers is going through a major renovation and bang crop is going to be a brand new school and if a year, so really excited for, for that. We also struggle, as I'll show in the next slide, with with retention and making sure that we all take as much of the blame is anyone here that we as a government ID system or are and setting up systems to support and nurture educators and provide them with what they need to stay in the classroom and provide the support that she needs to help keep, keep educators in the classroom. So this is a huge push in bars. And obviously, all of these culminate with things like hypotonic absenteeism rates, low achievement rates, and things that we know that we can do better on it, that, that children need us to, to deliver ADH. And so just as an example here, a few of the figures for retention rate over three years for our city schools. And, and I think bottom line is, you can see the state average is about 66% and we're not there in our city schools. And instead there's so much more that we can do to make sure that we're providing supports to keep educators in, in these buildings and provide consistency for children. And I think Jim, Jim explains this better than anyone, but the challenge that someone like me would have, you know, when you're developing your educators and providing PD. And then if you have that turnover, you gotta do all over again. And that's, you know, that's a really tough position to buy for it. So again, a lot, a lot more we could do, I guess, right? And so the structure that we're proposing is one that we've seen in other areas of the country. And essentially what it is is a partnership. We are, we want to create a governing board and a small team that is focused on the City of Wilmington schools. In the City of Wilmington schools, we have a lot of a lot of great colleagues on, on boards and in district offices across, across because the county and I think the way that I would kind of describe this in Dr. Holiday for I think most of you know, is our new Secretary of Education often says one of his biggest regrets when he was superintendent, a brand new one is that they weren't able to do more for, for Harlan. And he talks about going into every year, really determined to focus like a laser on the needs of Harland and then and something would happen and conquered or something would happen at hand. And just when you have such large districts and needs, he can't provide that targeted laser focused hyperfocus on, on these schools, these educators, these families, these children, these communities. And so creating this structure to two. So we support these schools and these schools only. And then a really key piece of this is empowering our educators on the former educator, I know we have folks on this call who have had incredible occurs education and educators are in front of her children every day. They should have absolutely a seat at the table when it comes to making key decisions and what's happening with their schools. And they should be the ones who are really informing this plan because they are the ones who were doing this work each and every day. So as far as what are some components of this and what could this look like? I think first really important to mention that we have heard time and time again from educators about how many different efforts there have been around schools in the city of well-written it. So I think there's a lot of fatigue from things like your partnership zone, priority schools race to the top. And that's real. This is something that is voluntary. This is a coalition of the willing. And I think that that's, that's sort of partnership is the only way to, to make this work. I mentioned the small staff and the small Governing Board comprised of folks who live in the city. The city, no city schools. Big, huge pieces like shed is said, is empowering to the educators all share in the chat. We had a virtual visit with a couple of these models across the country and hearing from one of the educators who serves on the educator leader team in Massachusetts about how this is empowered her colleagues occur. And then also hearing a presentation from the National Education Association, NEA about shared decision-making of what that needs for student achievement, what it means for teacher retention, which, which I share it as a big focus of what it means for overall culture when you really engage and empower educators. And also that having community councils that each school width, which would be comprised of educators, but also parents, caregivers, grandparents, community leaders to make sure that schools are community hubs. And I think one of the best, and I'm not just saying this dishes on the Kabul and the best models that that is what, what steps is doing with providing supports for not just the children that that will serve, but also their families and the community that Beth's round starts. We want to provide that flexibility around deploying resources so the governor's share, and I'll get to this in a few slides, that he's going to be proposing any additional 14 million dollars and that's budget for disadvantaged students. Part of that is going to go to the reading consortium and putting their recommendations in the operating budget. The other half is going to go to schools that participate in the collaborative and we're not dictating how you spend that money. Again, we want educators who are in front of these children to help determine how that funding extent. We've heard the need for additional pair professionals and classically part of the need for and Don and I talked about this before and after care so that we are providing the supports for children and families that are needed. A huge one as I talked about, is that cross district collaboration we had we were out knocking doors last Friday and, you know, you're in one part of the city and it is Christina and it is going to fire it. And then you walk a block north and urine red clay. And so the needs of children, each of the scores are a little bit different, but there are also things that we know are similar across them. Are there things that he's doing that can be shared with short legs which serves little ones. There are things that Harlan's doing that can you share with with buyers. And so making sure that we are collaborating across districts just makes a lot of sense. And then again, I just want to reiterate, this is not a takeover, this is a partnership and this is something that we want folks to opt into because we think that's the right way to do it. So I won't won't bother you with all of these, but we're really taking community engagement seriously and we're going to continue to take community engagement series. So we've met with a number of different groups. This is not an exhaustive list. This is everything that we could fit on one, on one slide, but I think it just sort of articulate the point that we really care about, about making sure that everyone in the community is involved in the development of this few slides. What banks bandwidth me, I'll wrap up in a moment. I shared the additional investments. I think this is really important to show a commitment and businesses in addition to opportunity funding, this is an addition to house the 100th, which provides additional counselors and behavioral health supports in schools and in addition to the k3 support. So I'm really excited for this and there's been a lot of talk about how this funding, but also some of the reading Consortium funding around early childhood and next year's increase in e cap can all sort of play a role. So excited to, to get some advice from you all. We really have an urgency around this for obvious reasons, that children are in school buildings every day, educators are in school buildings every day. But we've also heard a lot of feedback back. While folks get that urgency and appreciate it, that people don't want this to happen too fast, that it's not going to be implemented with fidelity. And so our hope that for this year, winter and spring is that school boards and Christina was the first one and approved moving forward, School Boards vote to explore this partnership formally. And then as we develop the emily use hopefully later this spring vote to approve the framework. And then the work really begins over the next year of engaging educators, engaging families, continuing to hear from community members, we don't want to not do anything next year. And so we're bringing forth these additional resources and want to get consensus around a few changes that we can make sure that folks agree on. That's not putting anything additional on educators play. It's things like again, the before and after care that, that Don and I talked about things like additional staff with these buildings that that we know and provide support. And then really begin further implementation the following school year. Another one, and I know it's probably not as as permanent to this call, but this was initially something that we said, hey, this is an elementary and middle school initiative. We don't want to try and take on too much, too quickly. We've had a lot of feedback from folks that the high-school piece is something that has to be a part of it. I won't I won't go too much into the weeds on this, but we have a lot of high school seeds that are not filled in the New Castle County area. And it's weird because you also have areas like Don can tell you in William Penn, like William Penn is pretty full and you have this weird kind of imbalance and maybe have children. We were knocking doors and hedge fill in your class deep, those children are zoning to Glasgow. And so it's it's a really complex issue and it's something that we do agree we should work on with stakeholders and also with the reading consortium. So we're thinking about it, the race or short, short-term and long-term planning. Finally, as I said are asked of school boards right now, is to vote to essentially agree to explore this, this partnership together that doesn't commit them to anything other than exploring it. But we're hopeful that we can get all three districts to to get to a commonplace where we're working together and prioritizing the needs of our, of our Wilmington students. So I will stop talking at you would love to hear thoughts, particularly on the early childhood. And I think that's where I bought to leverage the expertise on on this call. I also would be remiss if I didn't say hello to my friend loosen that who has been an unbelievable champion for the, for the early childhood world. So good to see you and I'm going to open it up and again, feel free to ask questions, share feedback with love to the blood, to hear from bugs and dad. Yes, your hand is raised so hard. I guess. Hi John, and thank you for the work that you're doing and certainly always for your support. Just a few thoughts. One is in the list of partners. I I I I didn't see and of course it was just a quick look. Someone from the someone who works with families experiencing homelessness. So that could be the Housing Alliance of Delaware or local shelters in the City of Wilmington. But we know that is a concern and I think. Would be good to link to that those partners. Secondly, I just want to say that and supportive headstart, that Wilmington headstart supports the City of Wilmington with four centers. And I think it's important to understand that the federal funding that headstart receives doesn't go far enough to provide enough full day funding for children and families. So I think as we look to fund a full day preschools, I would hope that we consider headstart programs in that funding, you know, to make that possible. And the headstart programs. Yeah, absolutely appreciate both. Or is that bad? And something that we can do on both products. So this is why these mutants are so helpful because both or is it going to make all the sense in the world? Now we'd like to dance to it. There's consideration given for the professional learning, collaboration with our early providers in Romans as well. Absolutely. And that's one of those things that you need to take a step back and you wonder like why, you know, why haven't we provided that for him? Because what you're doing at stubs, what we've seen is doing at St. Michael's what so many of you on this call are doing? Well, we get head-start. We just heard about what Logan's you remember at Kings would like. Shame on us as government if we can't create that structure for collaboration because so many good things are happening, but, but we're sort of just like siloed off and sell. Yeah, 1000%. I think that goes both on the early shouted side and on the K side is, is, you know, there are, there are certainly challenges across the board, but there are also things that we've seen visiting, visiting you and visiting some of your colleagues on this call that cannon really need to be shared. So I would also ask for, for helping kind of development what that, what that can and should look like. So algebra, waltz, epinephrine, it, Were there any CO, is in sound with the providers where we are speaking to because even as we develop these programs within our district of early learners, you know, they're there then exist the uncertainty of our community providers as business for them and the children that they serve as well. And making sure, you know, that there are some assurance in that. I think that's one of the places that we represent year as a council to make sure they are assured, you know, in the partnership and the resources that they would have access to. But importantly, Mac to lose in there as well. Absolutely. I mean, it's going to it's going to be it's going to take our family childcare homes, it's going to take our centers. It's going to take, this isn't a gallery like because we know children don't just go to one venue or another. So yeah, I agree. And again, I would lean on on this crew bit if it's okay to, to ask for, for Alice here on, on the best way to sort of coordinate that. Absolutely. As Don has some feedback she wanted to share. Thank you, Leah. So William, grateful that you brought up the professional development that some of you served with me on our professional development committee. I don't know, three years ago, four years ago as a committee that where we worked for over a year to create a professional development plan that will be inclusive. And that was shared with the governor. At that at that time, Secretary bunting. So those of us in public, private, non-profit, early intervention, you name it. They were, there was a team of people who create this plan. And I can certainly share that with you John, with everybody. But the recommendations of this is like single system Professional Development. So something that we are doing in colonial, we're not doing during COVID, but before COVID. Every PED that we offered on a PET day when he did childcare partners. Parents as teachers. See you. There are people on this call who came to those trainings or who sent their staff. You didn't have to be a childcare and colonial. All you do is beyond the email list I share out. So we had people from Delaware State University or Early Learning Lab com. We would start from here to the teacher has autism Delaware staff from St. Michael's come for conscious discipline training. So as a district, we have it budget for PD looks different in Pre-K and K 12 to get it. And if I have $5 thousand to spend on PD and I'm bringing a trainer and I'm spending $1000 on it. Let's put COVID aside. If I have a room that holds a 150 people, but I have 75 staff members not going to let 75 stethoscope. Go unfilled. So we need to create a model where all means all. So as districts, we are not collaborating for our professional development funding. So if we look at the pot of money and one teach, one district is offering conscious discipline training, creative curriculum training teachers write your goal training, social emotional learning training, whatever it is. Inviting all of us. Not only we invite our early learning partners, we invite visitors, we invite early intervention staff. Anybody who works with young children, they are invited and they receive the credit for it. Because as a licensed provider, when our licensing, you know, as you know, Mary, for licensing, we are required to how a certain number of hours of professional development. And as the stars program we have, they have to be like hike every high-quality de IEC, IEEE proved. That's where there's often that will put us in a pickle. So we have people coming to do training who have their doctorate in literacy and a teacher doesn't touch university. We bring them in and for us to have the training DIE see approved. It's often a burden. But we try our best to do it because we know that for providers to calm, they need that tray that approved training. So what I'm saying, John is like all these different, like it's the IEC approved or not the IEC approved. I think we'd say there's, there's reciprocity like what is this system that makes it easy that if you know Mary Moore, it hurt gene is often high-quality training that we can all access it. Whether weren't home visiting, pre-k, early intervention, make it available. And every public school that's in this collaborative, if Warner pre-K K or for stubs pre-K or name it so-and-so pre-k at PS 2 pi e cap, if they're having a training on to Strategies gold, they invite the community. They might everybody who attends gets the hours because the children I can't say enough like I my only serve 200 children in our colonial pre-K program. But 800 or 900 can be kindergarten every year. Every child and every child care and colonial art, there are children. So until we truly believe that. So that has to be the initiative. Every child in the City of Wilmington, you and the surrounding area is part of the work that we're doing. They're all our family and everyone must have access to high-quality PD. We have to make it easy. So what do we use that right now there are three systems. Data Service thinner, PDMS, and the IEC. One system. So you pick it whether it's PDMS, whether it's data service center, whether it's the IEC. But Pickett, I recommend PDMS. Why? Like I said, get rid of the IEC. I'm sorry for those of you who work in. But that's how we get overlap. So kindergarten teachers could benefit from the same training that foil teachers can utilize. So putting in DOE system, give everybody access, give the Terry law or Dr. Waller. I would love for her to come to one of our meetings. The train that she is all for, the trauma-informed train that she is offering is outstanding. None of our genre, I've not our Lawler has delivered training at our provider appreciation event in the past on that. But how do we make sure that every provider, it always has opportunity to take those trainings? We don't because only available through PDMS, which is the the public school systems, PD access system. Dr. Laura will get this trained. Anybody who wants it, because she so passionate about it, but we don't make it accessible to providers. So we need one PD system. Everybody needs actress, everybody. Thank God, thank you for sharing those pieces because we, as a council like John Sherry, that we would have the opportunity to be able to present these to you, John, like from the council's perspective. And also I see that Elizabeth has placed some information or comments in the chat as well, just to be considered, select the that was the whole purpose. Or you graciously being able to present this to us and then see this as a viable entity that needs to be apart and have a voice heard in, you know, what's going forward. So thank you for allowing us as a council to hear the presentation, you know, together some of us may have heard it in different other respective roles, but we are here as council members to be able to advocate for our city of well, me too, early learning community. And so that includes, you know, the schools within those districts that serve such as mine, as well as that in red clay. So we want to get out of that brand as well. Sorry. So just making sure like Karen cows last E is not with us today, but she's a very key piece within the workplace system for early providers. It, as Dawn mentioned. Or we have a great number of our early learners who have disabilities and the related services that are very functional for them and their families, you know? And so one of the things that we've talked about where a lot of people don't know if we measure inter-district is like the sender knows because she's one of the provider sites where related services come to. And so we have about 15 that our school just our school alone, are connected to here in the City of Wilmington, where the related services of speech and occupational therapy or physical therapy Wish Tree in and around staffing for these related services. So there needs to be some efforts as well in help be our group here in how we focus on recruitment and retention. And encouraging the continue will educate, shoot for some of our existing or interested, you know, our providers in becoming certified in special education, receiving some additional training in and around. How do we support providers with children with disabilities? That is a key role because they are attending our centers and they're also being service within our public schools. So there has to be, you know, of a wave which we prove those services at best system, you will kind of go, I don't know why it peas, but it's very essential, crucial, crucial piece. Well, absolutely I agree. Well informed me that I have in both of these parts that we need to start popping it. They want to make sure that we are are taking all of this in it as this continues to get Bill. But I had my hand raised, John, so you don't know what I I yeah, That's why I said I caught me out with tonight. Well, yeah. Now, obviously, I actually I'm very much I think these are terrific plans and, and actually was involved in Massachusetts for a little bit in the Springfield school system. And now what terrible challenge they had there. The only thing that I would like to add, Eugene, I always like to put more things on your plate. Is that as we, as educators look at this, as we support it in the back of people's minds. Can there, can we started even easing into connecting the two systems of early childhood with K through 12. Again, another connection I have in UMass and I had I don't know if you're familiar with Dr. Jacobson and his work in the first 10 theory of action and marries this whole thing beautifully. And all of the things that we're doing as a community and, and collaborating with school systems. You know, it's an age old cultural war, if you will, between K through 12 in pre-K and 30 years ago, I couldn't get kindergarten teachers to come talk to to my staff. So it's been going on forever. But perhaps this isn't an opera, is an opportunity to, you know, for us to give the support into, see that as a bridge and at a bridge and building this. And again folks, I, I highly recommend you look up the first 10 theory of action. And it's been done. I mean, there's some really great examples. I think Alabama's one of them that's doing an amazing work. And it goes along with our headstart standards and transition into kindergarten at all those see, I did. I added something on your plate, but I wasn't just agreeing with you, John. No, I wrote it down first, then derivation and after this I will go I will get read and I appreciate all that him and I drew it. You are to say that that would be it makes sense that Q fragmented systems, particularly when steam tell them that you're serving, are going to go to kindergarten. I mean, packets makes all the sense of the world. I saw Jennifer, you had your hand up and you put it down. Did you have something? No. No. I'm just I think to Dr. Williams point and to listen to this point is it's nitty-gritty because just as John was saying, there's overlap with families from one block to another with school districts. There's also an overlap in early care because they may be at lists into center, but they may live in a different district. And so that the connectors of all of this is it's going to have to be from a center level up and back. It's going to have to be a back and forth system because you're going to need to not just survey center directors and leaders, but also be knowledgeable of where those families live and work. And so, you know, again, they may be cared for at the Dell tactile care center, but they may end up in a New York Christiana school. So. This is where and not that we don't want to facilitate these amazing opportunities to those families while they're at that early care system. Because the reality is we are one state. And if an idea is generated in the City of Wilmington under this umbrella, it doesn't mean that that parent will not take it to Newark and say we need to do this here, which is ultimately what we want to generate, right? This positive connecting aspect of things. So we get our data systems, whatever needs to be built, but it would need to be rather extensive in the connective tissue to do that. Because again, one block over that, It's amazing. What happens. Mean renounced my my e-mail a cell in the chat, so things folks later on, please never never hesitate to reach out. Yes. Thank you. Are there any events or meetings upcoming back, the counsel be aware, I'm sure so the the next school board meetings are February 7, been Brandy why? February 9th in red clay. Drop a link in the chat here and you can do some of our previous public meetings. We also get a governor and Kim said, instead of Spanish language Town Hall two nights ago. So those are the immediate next steps are those two board meetings. But I will also ask, if you have an organization or a group that you want. Give me the governor to come, have a conversation about this. We're here. We're again, we're at about 130 of these conversations. And I think this only works if we engage as many of those as possible and they have this plan to reflect that. But why what those like you all were doing this work every day or are seeing and identify their needs for children. Awesome. Thank you, sir. Real Talk as a council BB here could be an opportunity, works together and providers are willing to open it up here, it stops the paper. It also makes debugging present. Absolutely. Done. Just put a question in the chat that I'm also curious about. Is there a representative from OEO supporting the WL see? Yeah. Yeah. We obviously have worked with you that very closely on this before before she she departed. And so whoever replaces r is obviously going to have to to coordinate and then you now have had their team. But yeah, we were working a lot with the Batman, obviously. Sadly sadly, she moved elsewhere. So when when her place to come to avoid that, they'll they'll pick that up. Thank you. So there are no other questions at this time. We don't want to. Thank you so much, Dan. Revenue, thanks for having me. And so reaching out. And again, please please reach out anyone if I can if I can support me, like yes. Great. Thank you. Thank you. See you next month for reading. Here. Just gets you to tell me why and where and I will be there. All right. Thank you again. Okay. Hey, we're here at the almost 15 minutes to the hour and we want to now what we can that was great information, a great opportunity for us and I think we kinda getting information now to land or real good survey first. But keep in mind your thoughts and your questions. As we go to Upwork, respective committees are formed those we can begin to kind of a clue this information and questioning that we have or look to develop our questions and suggestions or comments towards this work as a council and make those then no, collectively as a council that we could bring or it could share with John and the governor's office. Okay. Leah, is there anything else you need it for? I I feel like we have covered quite a lot today. So I will When is going to get a plug, Okay. Whitney and I will support Lin in the end. Getting the next steps done on. There'll be email communication about the committees that we discussed today. I know that you guys are accustomed to having around Robin and some of you may have information that you want to share. So winning if it's alright with you, maybe we could take these last 15 minutes. If anyone specifically has something they wanted to share. I I'm not going to go around and call and everyone like I have in the past. But if you, if you have something to say, please raise your virtual hand. And, and you can do that if you don't know how I go into reactions at the bottom of the screen and raise hand is in there. So yeah, so people who have stuff to say, let's say it now. Okay. Listen to your first-line variously. I'm sorry, but this is one thing I wanted to say before we left and that was, you know, our voices individually are so important, but collectively is when it becomes powerful. And I don't always agree with everything he says, but if a membership of DAY C makes us a collective of numbers, that will be listened to, you know, more and more earnestly, please consider that we the public schools K through 12, they have their unions. We're not going to have a union by any means, but to be a member of Delaware is affiliative. The Association for Education of Young Children, I think is important though, that that's my board president from DAY C hat. And I would just encourage everyone should seriously think about that. Thank you. Thank you. Debby. Thank you. Leo, just wanted to mention quickly a reference to what John said that the associated secretary position has been posted, as well as our three vacant positions. So we finally have that up as a posting. We're looking for three positions. I would imagine at least two would be the education associate. When might be a specialist position. Thank you. Thanks, Debbie. Amanda. I just have my usual reminder that our lab is doing treatment studies for kids between the ages of 49. Unlike our previous work that had a hard deadline for recruitment, this is rolling recruitment. Everything's virtual and we welcome over referrals. So if you have a kid that you're working with, that you have concerns about how they communicate. We would love to have you connect them with our lab. If you need paper flyers or flyers, please let us know. Either reach out to me or Lindsay or put a note in the chat and we'll make sure we get you materials. Thank you so much. Thank you. Know, wow. The morning and happy New Year. 0 I sound so there's an account. Good morning and happy New Year. Everybody. Amanda, I didn't quite catch the age ranges, was it for 29 years of age or 29 years of all? Primarily English-speaking, making some exposure to other languages for a couple days a week. But primarily English speaking. We are looking for kids whose main concern is spoken language communication. You might see these kids as kids were frustrated because they can't communicate anger. Kids were more withdrawn and shy, and you just have to have a concern to send them our way. We're happy to do the assessment and if they're not currently receiving services, will be the legwork to connect them to the appropriate agencies, school connection for where they live. Because as we just heard, it's confusing and complicated for families. But we'll also be offering them some free speech language therapy and curricular support. So if you have a kid that you're concerned about, we'd love to hear from you about them. Okay. Thank you. And I I have your link for the flyers. So thank you. Now to share about parents as teachers, we are actively enrolling for new families. So please keep in mind if you have any families with children. At this point, we're targeting more a little bit younger age, two or younger prenatal. We would love to to serve them. And we also are posting preparing educators, both English speaking in Spanish speaking. And those postings are available on the Kristina school district website. And if you have anybody in mind, please encourage them to check out the hosting. And two, to go ahead and submit an application. So we want to grow. Thanks. Meg. Good morning. I just few updates. Round four of the stabilization fund is out. If you have questions or know anyone that needs help with it, please don't hesitate to have them reach out to myself or anyone at the DIA. See, we have major major giveaway is going on right now. All you have to do is be a provider, childcare provider and Delaware to partaken. It's on our Facebook page, on the stars Facebook page specifically. They're being done by theme, but they're really, really big like huge canvas bags full of, this week is art supplies last week with science, it's changing every week. And then we have our cohort going on for the CDA, obviously in conjunction with Bishkek. And our new PDEs, are up our website of things that are coming up. So just use that as a great tool to find out if you're looking for or nuclear looking for continuing education needs in early childhood. That's all I have. Thanks Daphne. See you later. Hi. Take the second. Letting everyone know that we're doing books. Paulson blocks again for 34 year olds. It starts January 20 nights. And then we're doing or every two weeks. After that, you can go to D E thrives.com, backslash, walks, balls, locks to register. We also have started a sort of like an alumni group of parents that can come that have attended boxplots blocks in the path. And that's once a month, I believe the third Saturday, but we have to ship it sometimes due to when we do book sponsor blacks. But so that's where we are right now. Things happening. I say Yeah. I just want to start off in saying, thank you for thank you, Dr. Williams for inviting me. Thank you for inviting me as well. I've had a great experience on this call this morning being the most change agents like yourselves. Quick updates before we leave here at Stubs, we're on the 27th. Next Thursday we'll be getting or barbershop taught men's fellowship meeting, which will give men fathers or men in our community and the woman, woman to communicate, if not solely just for stubs, fathers and men. But SSH, safe rival place where they can come. Game education, game parent education, wrap-around services. Just an hour allotted every other Thursday here excuse me here edge stubs to be there for our fathers and educate them. Also, in the month of February, we will be having a our Black History 1 production fly will be sent out soon to you all. And we will have our I love to read themed event in February, not playing where we want Valentine's Day, but I love to read in partnership with parents as teachers and the United Way. If you felt, I will be dropping a link in the chat for our flyer, for the, for the barbershop talk. Feel free to pass it out. Amish, share with your network any Lynn you may note out would like to participate. Dinner will be served. Thank you very much. Awesome. That's exactly what I was going to ask you. Do you have higher That? Sounds awesome. Thank you. Diane. Hi, everybody. So I just wanted to share that our numbers are in and in 2021, we reached over 30 thousand children, parents and providers statewide. It whether that was through events, community outreach or resource sharing. So very exciting. I did wanted to just let everybody know that we continue the kindergarten academy. It will be February is the topic of language and letter C. And on February 8th will be the session in English, and on February 9th will be the session in Spanish. I also encourage you to join a team. We're doing a lot of different projects. And the New Castle County readiness team is actually going to be meeting today at 1230 if anybody is interested in joining us. And one of the things that we're going to be doing, just sort of a little snip of something that's coming is we're going to be working with the summer literacy project through DOE to get books and resource material out to kids. Everybody in the network will be given the opportunity to sign up to get these materials. And we're going to be convening a group with a lot of people in the early literacy space within the education sector and the medical sector to really get a message out for families. And so we'll be sharing those resources and sort of what the message is and looking for different feedback too. So everybody can be a part of this. As we distribute, we can get one message to families on early literacy. Intestine. Thanks. Whitney. I have just this year that we are, we do have openings here at our school, which is rare. So we do have a physician for kindergarten, as well as a physician for a preschool pre-k teacher here, as well as an action or a chair of which would include CAPI certification in special ed to kids. So we do have some opening tier, if anyone would like to share. Welcome to have them come and visited me. Just see our school could be Mary. Hi, I just wanted to let everybody know that we have an RFP that will be released for the Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Service. It's going to be released tomorrow with the clothing on February tenth. So we're looking for licensed mental health clinicians to fill our early childhood mental health team. We have some new positions and some expansion. So this opportunity for at this 0.15 different individuals. I'll put the link in the chat. So if you know any clinicians interested in working with early childcare programs, pleased to share that information. Thank you. I figured out that resume. So I am coming whether do different things from CFF. First, I am still getting the word out about access care. And they're free referral program for families in Delaware to help them find on quality childcare in their area. I did send our electronic flyer to lend to send out to everybody again. But if anybody has staff that like social work staff or anything like that, more people are going to be working with families. I can do like a, you know, as long as you want, but 15-minute brief presentation. I'm at staff meetings about the program and kinda connect people just to get the word out more. So if you're interested in that, just let me know. I also want to remind everybody about my child, Delaware. It is the consumer website for education that's federally mandated for each state to have, has lot of great resources on it. If you have a program, check and see if you're on it. If you're not on it, that it might be something that we could add, we try to do specific Delaware resources for families on there. I'm and we Keq is on there as a resource for parents and for families. And then I'm also starting to do the parenting classes for CFF as like a side thing. And I just had no idea like what an awesome curricula, the Ahab. So they offer the Strengthening Families and the nurturing parent. So those are referrals from the community that it can be self-referrals. We do get a lot of people that are involved with custody issues or DCFS that are mandated to take it on. But you can refer families that it could benefit and they can self refer themselves as well. At the 0 and scholarships. So we are also kind of in the collaboration with we Keck and the Institute for some of the CDA scholarships. Now, I think they've already filled the pilots that right. Everybody who's in the pilot should have already been registered. But that does not mean they can't contact CFF to get a scholarship to get their CDA. So that's rolling for CDA scholarships through CFF. So if anybody's interested in that, they can just contact scholarships at C at that DE.org and someone can get back with them about the details. Some Thank you. Patty. Going to come off mute. Patty to the hand and not my, my mute button. Sorry about that. Good morning everyone. This is a wonderful meeting of collaboration. Very exciting to hear. Everybody being revitalized and making new connections. Because I always say that my role is the glue. So I love to have all these things to further my collaboration and wanted to give a shout out to everyone that's been helping me with this new. And Beth mentioned and MEG mentioned our new cohort that began just a couple of days ago. It's very exciting. They are, they are on fire, sits very excited to be doing that. They will be doing quorum in addition to being in the CDA prep program. So we have seven enrolled with that. In December, we had 12 people finish class work at Dell tax, so six and TC want and 62 EC2 in we have registration closes today for delta Ec for TC1, TC2. So if you know anyone that is still interested in TC1 into the registration closes today so they could contact me if they live or work in the City of Wilmington. So we're very excited about that. We have a lot more people coming into professionals coming into the resource through, but I welcome more and more people from the staff from the school come in. But we are also getting people from Wilmington Head Start programs and other programs in the City of Wilmington. So please, if you could share again, that we're open Monday, Wednesday tend to one Tuesday, Thursday. I am there until 730 at night. So you could please share that. That would be awesome. Thank you. Cindy's asking what if someone needs only cheesy e2 they can take TEC to listen to yeah. Give me if you want to shoot me their information, I can contact them today. Thank you. Anybody else? And it's 11. We are right on time. Right on time. Awesome. You want to close this out? Let me just everyone. Thank you for the productive time this morning. And in the mind of the first month of the year, it looks like we're off to a great start to reset ourselves. It kind of brings some momentum or what we can look forward to it. It's still an honor of Dr. Sanders in keeping her close at heart for all of us in the work and even bringing the continued motivation for us to do this and knowing it, It's taking out of our time in some were also passionate about it, it break before that. So grateful for LEA in Haiti, It's not with us today, but all of you here that have continued to stay a part of your journey. We look forward to blue with some head as we say. And so the over to emails to my survey ourselves and your interests, the committees and the information want to contribute to the discussion that John shared with you and wishing you well for you to keep your thoughts and being thankful on this Thursday MBI, have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you next month. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. Thank you. I will hang out for a second, guys. I'll see you soon. Ductile. Right.
WECEC Meeting 1.20.2022
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