Media Workshop

The Media Workshop on Early Learning is being sponsored by the Early Learning Communications Roundtable.

Workshop will be held at the Puget Sound Educational Service District, located at 800 Oakesdale Ave SW in Renton. The Workshop also will be broadcast via the state’s K-20 videoconferencing network. All participants will be able to ask questions of presenters during the workshop. You can either ask your question directly or call 206.883.5315 with your question, which will be passed to the presenter.

If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact Molly O’Connor, Thrive by Five Washington Director of Communications, at 206.883.5315 (cell) or molly@thrivebyfivewa.org.

Workshop agenda 

• List and contact info for all Roundtable members 
  
  
• Workshop Presentations
  1. Early Learning in Washington State: An Overview 
  2. Early Learning and Child Care in Washington: Cost, Availability and Access 

  County-by County Snapshots of Child Care – Washington Child Care Resource & Referral Network (2008 reports available Jan. 2009)

• List of the local child care resource and referral programs in Washington state
• Copy of the 2008 statewide child care data report
• Most recent child care data by state
• Parents and the High Price of Child Care: 2008 Update
• Child Care facilities and rates in King County
1. Update on the State's Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement System Field Test 
   • Information about Seeds to Success
2. The Thrive Demonstration Communities of White Center and East Yakima 
   • Online information
   • Web site: White Center Early Learning Initiative 
   • Web site: Ready by Five (East Yakima)
3. Update on Developing a Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Process 
   • Online information
4. The Early Learning Policy Agenda for the 2009 Legislative Session
   • Overview of Early Learning Action Alliance
   • Early Learning Action Alliance Members
     
     
• Other Resources
  
  1. EARLY LEARNING STORY IDEAS – provides general/statewide and local story ideas
  2. PUBLICATION: Getting School Ready – Foundation for Early Learning
  3. PUBLICATION: Early childhood development directly affects economic vitality – United Ways of Washington
  4. PUBLICATION: 10 Simple Ways to Support Learning – Foundation for Early Learning
  5. REPORT: Better Beginnings: The State of Early Learning and Kindergarten Readiness in East Yakima and White Center (Baseline Report on Thrive Demonstration Communities) – Thrive by Five Washington
  6. REPORT: 2008 Report on Opinion Research (Parents and Child Care Providers) – Thrive by Five Washington
  7. REPORT: 2008 Parent Needs Assessment – Department of Early Learning
  8. REPORT: 2008 Public Awareness Poll – Department of Early Learning
  9. REPORT: Report on Opinion Research – Exploring Early Learning with Business Leaders in Washington State – United Ways of Washington
  10. REPORT: Early Learning in Washington Public Schools – Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
  11. REPORT: Leaving Children to Chance: NACCRRA’s Ranking of State Standards and Oversight of Small Family Child Care Homes
  12. REPORT: The State of Small Family Child Care Homes (by State)
  13. REPORT: We Can Do Better: NACCRRA’s Ranking of State Child Care Center Standards and Oversight
  14. REPORT: State of Child Care Centers in WA (NACCRRA report)
  15. HANDOUT: List of Coalitions by County
  16. HANDOUT: Early Learning Services Offered by of the State’s Nine Educational Service Districts
  17. HANDOUT: “Born to Learn” The News Tribune, 6.25.06 (Early Learning and Brain Development)
  18. ONLINE: Lists of activities to do at home, while traveling and when in public places that turn every day moments into learning moments for young children – Born Learning 
  19. ONLINE: Washington State Early Learning Benchmarks and new parent companion to the benchmarks