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Cambria-Friesland School District Child Enhancement Center

Community Service ● Maintaining Student ● Enrollment Child Care in Schools - Community ● Partners Schools Staff & Community ● Why it’s Recruiting Incentive The CF CEC is an attractive ○ worth quality in recruiting staff and employees in area businesses considering

Where We Started and Why ● Format and Structure ● Cambria-Friesland Academic, Social, ● Child Enhancement Emotional Connections and Center Growth Talking Points Challenges and Lessons ● Learned What Does the Future Hold? ●

Where We Started and Why ● 2014 - 2015 ● New District Administrator Referendum - Budget Deficit ● Child Care - Consistent Issue with Parents ● An Idea is Born ●

Great Ideas Often Fade Away Unless...

Process

Short and Long- October, 2014 - March, 2015 CF Board of Term Financial Discussion with CF Education Approval Analysis Fund 80 Board of Education Board Financial Building & Board Exploration Discussion Analysis Facilities Approval Research and Facility Analysis, visiting other Child Discussion, and Care Centers Planning

September 1, 2017 - Day 1 20 children enrolled ● Hours: 5:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ● 5 days/week ● Year round ● District and Non-District Children ● Large industry in Cambria-Friesland ○ Didion ○ Alsum Farms and Produce Foods ○ Del Monte ○ Didion ○

January 19, 2018 68-70 children enrolled ● 97 Highest number at one ● time 2016-2017 Profit: Approx. ● $10,000 Academic Center and Child ● Care

Academic Center and Child Care Academic, Curriculum & ● Programming Director Identifying the need for ● greater academics University of La Crosse ○ Child Care Summer PD Workshop ○

Academic Center and Child Care Staff training ● Social-Emotional ○ Pyramid Model Developmentally ○ Appropriate Practices SMART training ○ School To Work - CF HS ○

Staffing ● Leadership - Director ○ Lead Teacher ○ Assistant Teacher ○ Don’t Ever forget...It’s a Business. ● Cambria-Friesland Finances ● Child Enhancement Lack of Process & Procedure ● Center Ex: Initial Parent Meeting and ○ Challenges Probationary Period New Rules for School Districts ● What Does the Future Hold? ●

Oakfield School District ● University of La Crosse ● Child Care Cambria-Friesland Cambria-Friesland ● Board of Education Child Enhancement ________________ Center http://www.cf.k12.wi.us/ ● Many Thanks to: families/child- enhancement- center.cfm traymond@cambria- ● frieslandschools.org