Partnerships & Mobilization
Early learning happens everywhere and
is shaped by everyone who comes in
contact with a child. This variety offers
choices for families according to their
own needs and values. For families
who need additional support and services
the most, we currently offer an early
learning system that is often confusing,
inaccessible, fragmented and duplicative.
Thrive by Five Washington is committed
to building an early learning system that
helps ensure all children get a great start
in school and life. Partnerships are at the
heart of this work. We work closely with
our local, regional, state and national partners
to help advance programs and policies to ensure our early learning system is connected and coordinated using the new state Early
Learning Plan as our guide.
Early Learning Partnership and Plan
Partnerships at all levels are at the heart of Washington’s early learning work. One of our most
valuable partnerships in the state is the Early Learning Partnership between Thrive by Five
Washington, the Washington State Department of Early Learning and Office of Superintendent
of Public Instruction. Washington is the only state to have these specific groups – and have them
formally committed to working together on behalf of families and children birth to 3rd grade.
One of the biggest accomplishments for the Partnership was co-leading the creation of the
Early Learning Plan, a 10-year roadmap for our state’s early learning work. The Partnership has
aligned its work to the Plan and other statewide, regional and local groups have followed.
Not only is this partnership invaluable to our work, but it is also key to aligning the early
learning field and ensuring that state-level decisions and policy are coordinated. Regional
partners can more easily see how to connect with us and our work – and how they can best
connect with each other.
Ways We Build Partnerships and Drive Mobilization
- Partner with the Department of Early
Learning and Office of Superintendent
of Public Instruction on shared priorities
and a joint work plan
- Work closely with 10 regional early learning
coalitions to advance early learning in
their communities that is connected and
coordinated with the Early Learning Plan
- Collaborate with researchers including the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
(I-LABS) to share
the latest on brain research and other
advancements in early learning with
policymakers and stakeholders
- Champion continued investment in early
learning and strong public policy through
education and advocacy
