8:00 AM -- 12:30 PM
Aligning P-16 Education (session #510)
This post-forum session will provide an opportunity for forum participants to learn and discuss how states are successfully aligning their education systems to ensure smooth transitions and student success. 8:00-8:10 a.m.
Welcome 8:10-8:30
P-16 Partnerships in the States: An Overview
ECS will soon launch a database on state-level P-16 councils across the country. This short presentation will provide attendees information on the membership, mission, authority, supports and policy achievements of P-16 councils nationwide. 8:30-10:30
Perspectives on P-16 Work in the States
This highly interactive session will invite attendees to discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding four key areas of P-16 reform: early learning, high school, postsecondary and teaching quality. Attendees will share what their states are doing as well as the "inside baseball" of P-16 -- breaking down institutional barriers, buy-in and implementation issues, and how these have been or are being overcome. 10:30-11:30
P-16 -- From 30,000 Feet and the Ground Up
Panelists representing a national organization and a state P-16 council will provide their relative experiences in P-16: the national organization working with numerous diverse P-16 councils and the issues states are addressing; and the state P-16 council relating the experience of rolling up one's sleeves to do the hard work of P-16 reform. 11:30-12:30
Lunch and Wrap-Up Discussion
Bring on the cold cuts. Attendees will raise any last questions/comments, provide their response to the keynote panel, discuss "other" issues P-16 councils are or aren't addressing, and ask "what's next" -- what is the future of P-16 in the states, and what should states be doing about it now?
PARTICIPANTS |
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 | Jan S. Kettlewell, associate vice chancellor, Georgia P-16 Initiatives, University System of Georgia Board of Regents |  | Charles Lenth, senior associate, State Higher Education Executive Officers, Colorado |  | Susan Tave Zelman, superintendent of public instruction, Ohio Department of Education; ECS commissioner |
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