Top 5 Highlights from the
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1. “Learning is social and emotional.”
– Teri Lawler, Education Associate, DDOE
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2. “Early child care needs to be a ‘have to’ expense in the state budget like public education, and not a ‘want to’ expense. We can save later in remediation by investing early.”
– Former State Representative, Quinn Johnson
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3. Desere Ndikum’s Performance
View Ms. Ndikum’s moving spoken word performance as part of the K-12 session (starts at 4:35). A senior at Newark Charter School, Ndikum competed and was a finalist in the 2021 MLK VOICE 4 YOUTH, a statewide, spoken word competition that provides high school students a platform to creatively share how Dr. King’s legancy guides their response to today’s challenges.
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4. “How do we use some of these future opportunities to help support child care providers directly, and improve quality?”
– Yvette Sanchez-Fuentes, Associate Secretary of Early Childhood Support, DDOE
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5. How to get involved with postsecondary success:
1) For those that are employers: Look at new models like youth apprenticeships, different ways to hire, and earn-and-learn models
2) Join the IT Industry Council
3) Consider hiring someone from a neuro diverse background
4) As Dr. Shelley Rouser mentioned: Mentor someone. Help another person achieve what you’ve achieved in your career
– Patrick Callihan, Executive Director, Tech Impact
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| Read about and encourage your legislators to support the Vision Coalition Leadership Team’s 2021 legislative priorities.
View the Rodel Blog or legislative monitor for more information about current legislative issues. |
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| The Vision Coalition of Delaware presented its first-ever virtual conference, New Perspectives in a New Year, as a series of three webinars led and moderated by Vision Coalition Leadership Team chair and Delmarva Power/Atlantic City Electric regional president, Gary Stockbridge.
After 12 consecutive years of an annual conference hosted at the University of Delaware, this marked the Vision Coalition’s first virtual event. The conference serves as an annual check-in among advocates and educators on the priorities ahead, while also celebrating progress and success stories from the field.
A diverse group of local voices facilitated in three panels on early learning, K-12 education and postsecondary success including workforce development. To view the conference conversation, please search using the hashtag #VCCDelaware. |
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| Vision Coalition Leadership |
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| The Vision Coalition of Delaware is one of the nation’s longest running public-private partnerships devoted to education. They are the group responsible for Vision 2015, a ten-year plan released in 2005, and Student Success 2025, which launched in 2015. Based on feedback from 4,000 Delawareans, Student Success 2025 acknowledges that, to truly succeed in the future, students will need more than just core academic knowledge. To tackle tomorrow’s problems and excel in the jobs of the future, students will need “soft” skills and attributes like creativity, flexibility, and curiosity. The Vision Coalition Leadership Team includes: |
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Tony Allen, Ph.D.
President, Delaware State University
Jeffrey T. Benson, Jr.
Managing Partner, Prominent Insurance
Susan Bunting
Delaware Secretary of Education
Heath Chasanov
Superintendent, Woodbridge School District
Katrina Daniels
Principal, Colonial Early Education Program
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Farley-Ripple, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy in the School of Education and an Affiliate of the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware
Dorrell Green
Superintendent, Red Clay School District
Paul A. Herdman
President and CEO, Rodel
Logan S. Herring
Chief Executive Officer for the Kingswood Community Center; REACH Riverside; The Warehouse
Mark Holodick
Senior Leadership Specialist, Delaware Academy for School Leadership (DASL) at the University of Delaware |
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Stephanie Ingram
President, Delaware State Education Association
Rev. Provey Powell Jr.
Member, Delaware State Board of Education
Rob Rescigno, Ed.D.
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wilmington University
Bettina Tweardy Riveros, Esq.
Chief Health Equity Officer; Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Community Engagement, ChristianaCare
Justina M. Sapna
Vice President for Academic Affairs at Delaware Technical Community College
Gary Stockbridge
Regional President, Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric
Javier G. Torrijos
Chair, Delaware Hispanic Commission and Retired/Former Assistant Director of Construction at Delaware Department of Transportation
Margie López Waite
Chief Executive Officer at Las Américas ASPIRA Academy |
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