District Child Enhancement Center Community Service Maintaining - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
District Child Enhancement Center Community Service Maintaining - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Cambria-Friesland School District Child Enhancement Center Community Service Maintaining Student Enrollment Child Care in Schools - Community Partners Schools Staff & Community Why its Recruiting Incentive
Child Care in Schools Why it’s worth considering
- Community Service
- Maintaining Student
Enrollment
- Schools - Community
Partners
- Staff & Community
Recruiting Incentive
○ The CF CEC is an attractive quality in recruiting staff and employees in area businesses
Cambria-Friesland Child Enhancement Center Talking Points
- Where We Started and Why
- Format and Structure
- Academic, Social,
Emotional Connections and Growth
- 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
Board Discussion
October, 2014 - Discussion with CF Board of Education
Exploration
Research and visiting other Child Care Centers
Financial Analysis
Short and Long- Term Financial Analysis Fund 80
Building & Facilities
Facility Analysis, Discussion, and Planning
Board Approval
March, 2015 CF Board of Education Approval
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
Cambria-Friesland Child Enhancement Center Challenges
- Staffing
○ Leadership - Director ○ Lead Teacher ○ Assistant Teacher
- Don’t Ever forget...It’s a Business.
- Finances
- Lack of Process & Procedure
○ Ex: Initial Parent Meeting and Probationary Period
- New Rules for School Districts
- What Does the Future Hold?
Cambria-Friesland Child Enhancement Center Many Thanks to:
- Oakfield School District
- University of La Crosse
Child Care
- Cambria-Friesland
Board of Education ________________
- http://www.cf.k12.wi.us/
families/child- enhancement- center.cfm
- traymond@cambria-
frieslandschools.org