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KEYNOTES EARLY LEARNING 2020: Leading & Learning in the New Decade
Monday, October 19, 2019
Opening Session | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Tracey Campanini, Deputy Secretary
Office of Child Development & Early Learning, PA Departments of Education & Human Services
Keynote
Albert Wat, Senior Policy Director
Alliance For Early Success
Build Stronger: A Child Care Policy Roadmap
FEATURED PUBLIC POLICY SESSIONS
The last seven months have brought much attention to the integral role early care and education plays in supporting
working families and the economy. However, the industry and
its workforce were struggling before the coronavirus hit and we are finding that the resources and policies targeted to address the virus may not be enough to save it from collapse. During today’s public policy sessions we will hear from OCDEL, federal experts and state early education providers on how we take the challenges and vulnerabilities of the sector that have become so apparent as a result of the pandemic, learn, and move forward.
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM 1.04 | OCDEL Town Hall
Moderator: Karen Grimm-Thomas, Director of External Relations; Panelists: Marnie Aylesworth, Director, PA Key; Christine Baldini, Bureau of Finance, Operations and Planning; Colin Day, Communications Director; Deb Daulton, Director, Early Intervention Technical Assistance; Tracy Duarte, Director, Head Start State Collaboration Office; Brent Gordon, Chief
of Staff; Lisa Parker, Director, Bureau of Early Intervention Services and Family Supports; Christine Reber, Director, Bureau of Early Learning Resource Center Operations; Kesley Shaw, Director, Bureau of Policy and Professional Development
STATE & FEDERAL POLICY PANELS
A recent article on Fatherly.com asked a group of national experts “How to Save Child Care” and “How can we fix it?” We are asking our federal and state panelists for their vision. How do we take the challenges and vulnerabilities of the sector that have become so apparent as a result of the pandemic, learn and move forward? We are asking ... It’s 2025 ... where will child care be ... what will it look like ... what will we need to get there?
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
2.04 | New Visions for Child Care | Federal Panel
Moderator: Sue Russell, Executive Director, T.E.A.C.H. National Center; Panelists: Patricia A. Cole, Senior Director of Federal Policy, Zero to Three; Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Director, Child Care And Early Education, CLASP; Natalie Renew, Director, Home Grown; Tommy Sheridan, Deputy Director, National Head Start Association; Albert Wat, Senior Policy Director, Alliance For Early Success
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
3.05 | New Visions for Child Care l PA Providers Speak Out
Moderator: Miles Bryan, Reporter, WHYY; Zakiyyah Boone, Wonderspring, Narberth; Abigail Enz-Doershner, Once Upon
a Time, Washington; Bridget Heinl, Family Child Care Home, Middletown; Aliya Johnson-Roberts, Pratt Street Learning Center, Philadelphia; Leslie Spina, Kinder Academy, Inc., Philadelphia; Dr. April Torrance, Zion Education Center, Farrell
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