Wednesday, June 1, 2016

1:00 pm Welcome/Introductions

Review Agenda/Identify Hot Topics Not On the

Agenda

2:00 pm Data, Data, Data – the proposed revisions to the

Head Start Performance Standards included new

language on data. We will discuss what this

means for our future. We’ll discuss strategies on

collection, entry, and analysis as a measure of

program success toward outcomes. In addition,

we will review and discuss the IHSA data

project.

3:00 pm Break – R n R: Recharge and Revitalize

3:15 pm PreK Expansion in Illinois

Cindy Zumwalt, ISBE, Division Administrator,

Early Childhood

Jenny Metcalf, ISBE, Principal Consultant

Division of Early Childhood

Bryan Stokes, Preschool Expansion Policy

Director, Governor's Office of Early Childhood

Development

4:30 pm Adjourn (Dinner on your own)

Thursday, June 2, 2016

8:30 am Breakfast (provided)

9:15 am Workforce Challenge

The Labor Department’s finalized rule on

overtime

“Bench Strength” - dialogue on how we are

developing our own program’s “bench

strength” to identify and build the capacity

of the next generation of program leaders.

Recruitment/Retention

IHSA Wage & Benefit Database

IHSA Head Start 101 Orientation – on

demand training for new staff

10:30 am Break – R n R: Recharge and Revitalize

10:45 am Gateways Registry and Credentials

Joni Scritchlow, INCCRRA - Gateways to

Opportunity, Sr. Program Director

Administration

Beth Knight, INCCRRA - Gateways to

Opportunity, Program Director - Learning and

Development

12:15 pm Lunch

1:30 pm State of Affairs - Kathy Stohr, Deputy Director

Illinois Governor’s Office of Early Childhood

Development

2:45 pm Break R n R: Recharge and Revitalize

3:00 pm Showing of documentary “Paper Tigers” –

“Paper Tigers captures the pain, the danger, the

beauty, and the hopes of struggling teens—and

the teachers armed with new science and fresh

approaches that are changing their lives for the

better.” The “new science” referred to by the

producers in this description of their film is the

findings from the Adverse Childhood

Experiences Study, known as the ACE Study. As

one Head Start Director noted, “It is a

documentary following the lives of several

children who are affected by ACEs (adverse

childhood effects). It highlights the damage of

chronic traumatic stress and its effects on brain

development. I believe that it is a must watch in

the Head Start community as many of our parents

show symptoms of “ACEs” and our young

children are “earning” their ACEs as we

speak. The film makes the case for trauma

informed practices and developmental parenting

which I believe are two things every Head Start

program should be tuning in to”.

4:30 pm Discussion on Trauma Informed Practice and the

Two Generation Approach

5:00 pm Adjourn

5:30 pm Dinner, Networking and FUN!

Friday, June 3, 2016

8:30 am Breakfast (provided)

9:15 am Discussion on Increased Duration/COLA/EHS

Expansion

10:15 am Break

10:30 am Federal Update –

Reauthorization

FY17 Budget

Head Start Performance Standards

11:30 am Closure/Next Steps