Re: P 16 Follow Up
Georgia Reash
Hi All,
Mike and I were at the last Cuyahoga County P-16 meeting last month. Interesting stuff - lots of energy, and great opportunities. I am going to go to this next meeting mostly out of interest and to keep up to date on the effort. Anyone else want to join me?
In particular, note below the creation of a Community Asset Mapping committee. Per our CTP conversation yesterday, perhaps we could propose a tool/process to help facilitate their mapping process? Sudhir, you and I can talk about this on Thursday, but Georgia, perhaps it'd be worth connecting with Bill Wendling on this point???
Seems like there may be opportunities here for both CTP and NEOCL...
-Will--
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From: Bill Wendling <Bill.W...@esc-cc.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Subject: P 16 Follow Up
To: Alenka Winslett <awin...@cspohio.org>, Alison Benders <aben...@ursuline.edu>, Ann Kowal Smith <anks...@gmail.com>, Ann Mullin <amu...@gundfdn.org>, Anne Hill <Anne...@governor.ohio.gov>, Bill Hiller <w.hi...@mhjf.org>, Bill Wendling <bwen...@wendlingpr.com>, Brad Whitehead <bwhit...@futurefundneo.org>, Brion Deitsch <bdei...@fairview.k12.oh.us>, Celena Roebuck <croe...@cvccworks.com>, Charlie Keenan <charlie...@mapleschools.com>, Cindy Kodek <Cindy...@sst3.org>, Cynthia Walker <cynthia...@lnoca.org>, David Estrop <David....@lakewood.k12.oh.us>, David Quolke <dqu...@ameritech.net>, Deborah Delisle <D_De...@chuh.org>, Derran Wimer <Dwi...@berea.k12.oh.us>, Elaine Davis <wa_e...@lgca.org>, Elaine Sutton <e.su...@communitysolutions.org>, Eric Gordon <eric....@cmsdnet.net>, Eugene Sanders <Eugene....@cmsdnet.net>, Gary Allen <gal...@regents.state.oh.us>, George Viebranz <George....@ideastream.org>, Georgia Reash <communitytran...@gmail.com>, Harry Eastridge <Harry.E...@esc-cc.org>, Helen Williams <hwil...@clevefdn.org>, James McLoughlin <j.mclo...@csuohio.edu>, Jeanne Sternad <jste...@garfield-heights.k12.oh.us>, Jennifer Dodd <Jennif...@esc-cc.org>, Jerry Sue Thornton <Jerry-Sue...@tri-c.edu>, Joffrey Jones <jjo...@euclid.k12.oh.us>, Kim Landis <kla...@accessashtabula.com>, Larry Benders <lben...@city.cleveland.oh.us>, Linda Koren <linda...@sst3.org>, Lisa Bottoms <lbot...@clevefdn.org>, Mark Freeman <free...@shaker-heights.k12.oh.us>, Mark Nazario <m.a.n...@csuohio.edu>, Martha Motsco <mmo...@bedford.k12.oh.us>, Marti Hunter <mhu...@helpmegrow.org>, "Melissa Manos (Melissa Manos)" <mma...@helpmegrow.org>, Michael Schwartz <Michael....@csuohio.edu>, Mike Gesing <mi...@neohio.org>, Monyka Price <mpr...@city.cleveland.oh.us>, Myrna Corley <mco...@east-cleveland.k12.oh.us>, Nakiaa Robinson <nrob...@cuyahogacounty.us>, Nancy Sabath <nancy....@ode.state.oh.us>, Robin Martin <rma...@cuyahogacounty.us>, Roscoe Schlachter <rschl...@cvccworks.com>, Rosemary Herpel <rosemar...@att.net>, Sarah Zatik <zat...@parmacityschools.org>, Steve Minter <smi...@urban.csuohio.edu>, Terry Butler <terry....@tri-c.edu>, Terry Krivak <terry....@ideastream.org>, Tina Milano <tmi...@cspohio.org>, Will Goldstein <WillGo...@gmail.com>, William Zelei <ze...@sel.k12.oh.us>
Cc: cindy...@sst3.org, mwil...@wendlingpr.com
P 16 Working Committee –
This message is being sent to all of you who participated in the September 29th meeting of the Cuyahoga County P16 Working Committee, as well as to individuals who did not attend but have expressed interest in the formation of a P16 council in the county (see attached list). The presentation by Jeff Edmondson, executive director of the Strive P-16 in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, was exceptionally well done and helpful. There are a lot of lessons we can learn from the work of Strive that will make our work easier to undertake, even if our direction is different from that pursued by Strive.
Here are some follow-up items from our meeting:
1) Please note that our next EPIC meeting will be Wednesday, December 3rd from Noon till 2:30 pm at the County Educational Service Center,5811 Canal Road, Valley View. Once again, this will be held in the 2nd floor conference room of the ESC and lunch will be provided.
2) We established the following committees. We would like to have 3-4 people on these committees initially to help determine the scope of their work plan. Please indicate the area where you or your organization would like to provide assistance. We particularly need to get the Data Committee and the Community Asset Mapping groups together prior to our next meeting.
a. Data Committee
b. Communications Committee
c. Community Asset Mapping
3) In addition to forming the Data Committee, we asked each member organization to research and forward critical data that represents needs identified by their respective organization. This could be early childhood and school readiness, local school data, higher education enrollment, graduation and persistence data, workforce shortage data, etc. In other words, what does your organization see as a critical need in creating successful school-to-workforce or school-to-college pipelines and what data do you have that supports this. Any other data that could be pertinent to gaining a full picture of the pipeline will be beneficial. Please forward this data to Bill Wendling and Jennifer Dodd before November 7th, 2008.
4) Please take another look at the Concept Paper which we circulated prior to the September 29 meeting. In particular, are you comfortable with the name EPIC – Education Partners in Cuyahoga? If you have specific suggestions for improving the concept paper, please let me know. At this point, we'll defer the consideration of 501 (c) (3) status until we have a firmer grasp on the actual workplan.
5) We are continuing to pursue the development of an active leadership group that would include representatives from the Working Committee as well as sectors of the community not presently represented. We are also pursuing participation by a few representatives from the key employment sectors in the county.
6) There are a number of initiatives at work in Cuyahoga County, as we have discussed. The task of EPIC is to leverage these existing efforts to assure that all students and adult learners in the county can be successful. Initiatives like MyCom, which was recently launched by The Cleveland Foundation and other funders, as well as various early-childhood, literacy, after school and workforce development efforts should continue to serve their individual missions. We hope that each of these key initiatives will be represented at future EPIC meetings. EPIC can provide valuable help in building awareness of these efforts and aligning them with the needs of individual school districts, workforce and economic development efforts and higher education. The task of the Community Asset Mapping committee will be to identify the various community efforts that currently serve student and adult learners.
7) The Cleveland Plain Dealer is exploring a news story concerning the establishment of EPIC. It is possible that the reporter will contact you for your impressions.
8) We need your assistance in developing a website for EPIC. The site can be hosted at the Cuyahoga County Educational Service Center. If you have people within your organization who can help design the content of the site, please let us know.
9) One final note: Deb Delisle, superintendent of Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School district, who attended our most recent meeting, has been named Superintendent of Public Instruction for Ohio. We'll miss her engagement in Cuyahoga County but look forward to working with her in her new capacity.
If you have any comments, questions or other information to share as we coordinate this process, please contact Bill Wendling or Jennifer Dodd at 216-901-4240 or Jennif...@esc-cc.org.
William Wendling
Director
Education Partners in Cuyahoga
5811 Canal Road
Valley View, OH 44125
Will Goldstein
will.go...@gmail.com
(c) 216.357.8606