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Aligns Perfectly

Vision: The bullets help define focus areas.

Mission: Option 1 preferred

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Health & Safety -We want to ensure that we don’t lose sight of health and safety

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We believe it aligns with LEARNS because it discusses provides a unified system, increasing access and quality

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We need to ensure the wording includes ALL children.

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The vision and mission aligns with LEARNS because it either directly mentions or alludes to access, quality, and coordination needed to build a unified early childhood system.

Friendly suggestions: Give families its own bullet statement. Give providers its own bullet statement. Consider "To meet the needs of the people of the state of Arkansas" instead of the amibitious goals of the LEARNS Act. The rationale is because LEARNS is the impetus but not the "why" of the work.

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We don't see any gaps

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It focuses on child outcomes, and it also aligns with the standards that we are trying to achieve with high quality education as well as quality care. (EC, CM, SG)

Building relationships with providers, partnerships and community leaders. (EC, CM, SG)

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Wording to ensure that the increase for access and quality is available to all children

Ensure we continue to address health & safety needs

We believe the mission/vision shared on the PPT is more concise and better worded

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In all our conversations, the word alignment keeps coming up and the vision of the strategic plan seems to reflect that. May need to expand on the meaning of “coherent experiences.” Is there a clearer way to say that? The vision on the PowerPoint screen is more understandable than the handout. It is more characteristic of a vision statement.

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It aligns with LEARNS because it covers the areas of workforce, families, providers and outcomes.

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Don’t forget safety and mental health.

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This verbiage is great for stakeholders, but will probably need be adjusted for families and providers. Keeping in mind, who the audience is.

Elaboration on “coherent experiences”?

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We like Option 1; however, we recommend removing ADE and replacing it with Arkansas so it ties in the local flavor and doesn't tie it to one agency.

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ALIGNMENT!!!

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In Objective 2, how do we measure success and readiness for any support service that is not classroom based. Ie: home visiting

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Providers working together for the same common goal. (EC, CM, SG)

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the bullet points provided for the vision do align with LEARNS

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Add "measureable and defined" to outcomes

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Recommend taking out the adjective “ambitious” in the second mission statement. May need to clearly define what we mean by “early childhood programs.” Who is included? And what ages? Is it anyone who provide support or services to children B-8?

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Unification of all programs, Local Leads and the collaborative approach

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Training for parents and offer more hands-on training for providers....... workshops. (EC, CM, SG).

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Excited about their being a focus on a "highway" being built between ECE

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Don’t lose sight of family supports (concrete supports, building social connections). Does the word “quality” encompass everything we want? How is quality defined?

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make sure ALL involves family home providers, sg

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Increased Access - Streamlined resources and opportunities - we are also excited about exploring opportunities to involve our local industry in providing high quality care in ways we aren't currently.

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A system that supports programs to retain qualified staff leading to improved outcomes for children.

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Vision doesn't paint a picture of where we are going or create an image of an end goal that could be universally comprehended

The bullets feel like objectives - they are the what.

We would suggest two way language when discussing ECE and K-12 so words like "integration" or "transitional" etc. and not connects to - which can make a perceived power dynamic worse

we feel like workforce support should be referenced generally as ECE workforce is only a portion of those that are impacted by this work

there were not words about "kids" or anything that made this feel child centered

words that are unclear like "coherent" or generalizations like "correlated with outcomes" can cause confusion at all levels of the system

Wondering what is wrong with "unified early childhood system," but if we needed something further defined, an example that checks our boxes is: "Creating a unified early childhood system in AR where every child receives high quality care and education, families and providers experience seamless support, and early learning programs are integrated with K-12 system for better outcomes.

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If our audience is the general public, please continue to think about the reader and audience as we do this work for them. Each sector has its own jargon and word usage patterns. Thank you for your work on this but please continue to think about a parent that might pick up a brochure in the doctor's office to read, understand, and take action. This is GREAT work!

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Family Engagement & Support

Consumer Education

What does “quality childcare” look like?

-Parents choice