2012 PD Summit: Preliminary Agenda (Subject to Change) May 16, 2012
6 th Annual National Meeting of States
Agenda June 9, 2012
The room will open at 7:15 a.m. Please arrive by 7:45 a.m.
State Leadership Teams and facilitators meet at assigned tables.
7:30 a.m. Arrival
Continental breakfast provided
Networking
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articipants network in and across State Leadership Teams
8:00 a.m. Opening White River Ballroom E/F
Welcome
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Recognition of participating states, planning partners, facilitators, and sponsors
 Heath Ouellette, Early Childhood Workforce Systems Specialist, NAEYC
 McCormick Foundation
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Review of PD Summit goals and structure, and introduction of opening speaker
 Jerlean Daniel, Executive Director, NAEYC
Key Note Address
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Integrated, we are stronger
 Jamilah R. Jor’dan, PhD
9:00 a.m. Break
Transition
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Participants transition to their first peer-to-peer session location
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Sessions will be held in four to five separate rooms (map will be provided)
9:10 a.m. Peer-to-Peer Sessions, Part I
Cross State Discussions
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The peer-topeer sessions are based on participating states’ identification of top goals, policy issues and questions, and are broadly framed by the NAEYC State Policy Blueprint areas and principles (see www.naeyc.org/policy/ecwsi#blueprint )
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Participants choose from the following concurrent discussion topic sessions:
 Advisory Structure: Governance, Communication, Links with ECAC, and Agreements
Facilitated by Billie Young, Senior Advisor, NAEYC’s Early Childhood Workforce Systems
Initiative
 Compensation Parity: Increasing Wages and Benefits
Facilitated by Valerie Krajec, Lead Senior Analyst & Technical Assistant Specialist, National
Center on Child Care Professional Development Systems and Workforce Initiatives
 Credential Portability and Reciprocity: Discussion Session with Shannon Rudisill,
Director, Office of Child Care & Amanda Bryans, Education and Comprehensive Services
Division Director , Office of Head Start
Facilitated by Dianne Lake, Lead Senior Technical Assistant Specialist, National Center on Child
Care Professional Development Systems and Workforce Initiatives
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 Financing: Developing Affordable and Sustainable Integrated Professional Development
Systems
Facilitated by Anne Mitchell, President, Early Childhood Policy Research & Co-founder, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance
 Integrated Professional Standards and Career Pathways: Cross-Sector Core Knowledge &
Competencies and Career Lattices
Facilitated by Jana Martella, Executive Director, NAECS-SDE and NARA Licensing
 Workforce Data: Building and Funding Systems that Meet Longitudinal Needs
Facilitated by Patti Russ, Project Coordinator, National Registry Alliance
10:20 a.m. Break
Transition
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Participants transition to State Leadership Team Meeting
10:30 a.m. State Leadership Team Meeting White River Ballroom E/F
Integrated Professional Development Systems
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Implementing science and integrated professional development systems
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State Leadership Team discussion
11:15 a.m. Break
Transition
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Participants transition to their second peer-to-peer session location
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Sessions will be held in four to five separate rooms (map will be provided)
11:25 a.m. Peer-to-Peer Sessions, Part II
Cross State Discussions
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The peer-topeer sessions are based on participating states’ identification of top goals, policy issues and questions, and are broadly framed by the NAEYC state policy blueprint areas and principles (see www.naeyc.org/policy/ecwsi#blueprint )

Participants choose from the following concurrent discussion topic sessions:
 Advisory Structure: Governance, Communication, Links with ECAC, and Agreements
Facilitated by Billie Young, Senior Advisor, NAEYC’s Early Childhood Workforce Systems
Initiative
 Compensation Parity: Increasing Wages and Benefits
Facilitated by Valerie Krajec, Lead Senior Analyst & Technical Assistant Specialist, National
Center on Child Care Professional Development Systems and Workforce Initiatives
 Credential Portability and Reciprocity: Discussion Session with Shannon Rudisill,
Director, Office of Child Care & Amanda Bryans, Education and Comprehensive Services
Division Director , Office of Head Start
Facilitated by Dianne Lake, Lead Senior Technical Assistant Specialist, National Center on Child
Care Professional Development Systems and Workforce Initiatives
 Financing: Developing Affordable and Sustainable Integrated Professional Development
Systems
Facilitated by Anne Mitchell, President, Early Childhood Policy Research & Co-founder, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance
 Integrated Professional Standards and Career Pathways: Cross-Sector Core Knowledge &
Competencies and Career Lattices
Facilitated by Jana Martella, Executive Director, NAECS-SDE and NARA Licensing
 Workforce Data: Building and Funding Systems that Meet Longitudinal Needs
Facilitated by Patti Russ, Project Coordinator, National Registry Alliance
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12:30 p.m. Working Lunch
May 16, 2012
Box lunches provided
Cross-State Meetings
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Networking and discussion time
National Resource and Projects
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National partners share an overview of new professional development-related resources and projects
1:30 p.m. State Leadership Team Meetings
State Leadership Team Discussions
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Assigned facilitators join State Leadership Teams
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Participants reconvene in State Leadership Teams to discuss previously determined team goals, new learning and ways to apply ideas to their current work, strategies to share with additional state partners, and/or a specific goal or system issue
3:00 p.m. Closing
Federal Panel
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Reflections on the Future of Professional Development Systems
 Shannon Rudisill, Director, Office of Child Care
 Amanda Bryans, Education and Comprehensive Services Division Director , Office of Head Start
Final Comments
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Closing remarks
 Gera Jacobs, President-Elect, NAEYC Governing Board
 Heath Ouellette, Early Childhood Workforce Systems Specialist, NAEYC
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
NAEYC thanks the Birth to Five Policy Alliance and the McCormick Foundation for their generous support of the 2012 PD Summit.
NAEYC also thanks the following PD Summit planning partners:
● Center for the Study of Child Care Employment ● Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical
Assistance Coordinating Center ● National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of
Education ● National Association for Family Child Care ● National Center on Child Care Professional Development
Systems and Workforce Initiatives ● National Governors Association Center for Best Practices ● Office of Child
Care ● Office of Head Start ● The National Professional Development Center on Inclusion ● The National Registry
Alliance ● The Ounce ● US Department of Education ●
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