Join us for the Texas School Ready! Summit on May 4, 2010 from 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM.
What is the Texas School Ready! Summit?
Texas PBS, Children’s Learning Institute, Child Care Associates, Texas Education Agency, and the Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC) are partnering to bring “The State of School Readiness” into your community.
The Texas School Ready! Summit brings together early education thought-leaders, policymakers and researchers to highlight achievements, explore current issues and raise awareness of many of the wonderful school readiness efforts and partnerships formed in local communities throughout Texas. Participants will also gain increased knowledge of successful research-based practices for improving school readiness in our youngest learners.
The summit will be hosted at KLRU studios in Austin, Texas. However the event will be available live through a free live webcast for our members and partners and we are inviting you to use the event to build support awareness for high-quality early care and education in your community.
Should you chose to host a local viewing site, TECEC can help you get the word out.
•Chairman Mark Strama, Texas House of Representatives •CommissionerRobert Scott, Texas Education Agency •Dr. Grover “Russ” Whitehurst, Brookings Institution •Dr. Bob Pianta, Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning •Dr. Bruce Fuller, University of California at Berkeley •Robert Lippincott, Senior Vice President for Education at PBS •Dr. John W. Gasko, Children’s Learning Institute •Kara Johnson, Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC)
Speakers will cover the need for early care and education in our state, the current state of school readiness in Texas, and current national research on classroom best-practices. Viewers will also see multiple short films on successful Texas School Ready! programs from across the state.
There will be a 50-minute lunch break, which will present your community with the perfect opportunity to address school readiness locally. TECEC will provide you with discussion topics as well as ideas for local speakers during this period, if needed.
This event can be used to provide professional development clock hours to child care workers and other professionals. TECEC will provide you with a certificate for your participant’s records. For more information contact .
Attend a local viewing site in your community! You can watch the summit here live on May 4 or join us at one of the more than 24 watch parties around the state. RSVP details below:
How do I host a viewing site for the Texas School Ready! Summit?
1. Find a good location for your event. Make sure that you have a site and the ability to project an Internet-based webcast with sound
2. Download the site registration form, fill it out and return it to Don Titcombe at or fax to 512.480.0995. Please return these forms by Friday, April 9, 2010.
3. Once you have your site settled and a registration form returned to , and start distributing it to your local media. ◦Invite your local legislators and other community leaders ◦Distribute flyers to your partners and local listservs, using our flyer template
4. Don Titcombe will contact you with more information on the Summit, such as the web address of the webcast. He can help you with most technical questions you may have as well. Please feel free to contact him with questions at or 512.476.7939
