The city-wide partnership will release its 2017 Community Report
STAMFORD, Conn. (December 8, 2017) — Stamford Cradle to Career (SC2C) hosted its Annual Convening on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at UConn Stamford. The event was an opportunity for SC2C’s community action networks to share their accomplishments from this past year to an engaged audience of nearly 200 educators, representatives from community organizations, representatives from Stamford’s business community, parents and community members. Superintendent Earl T. Kim introduced the new Stamford Public Schools Strategic Plan and City of Stamford Mayor David R. Martin spoke to the partnership’s value to the city.
A highlight of the event was a keynote address from UConn Stamford Associate Director of Digital Media & Design, Matthew Worwood. Mr. Worwood is known for his innovative work exploring the ways young children interact with technology, and implications for the school experience, focusing on young children who will comprise the class of 2032 and beyond. His address will bolster excitement around SC2C’s work currently underway in Stamford, and will engage attendees to think holistically about the skills needed by today’s students in an ever-changing digital world.
In addition, SC2C’s 2017 Community Report was released, and delved into data related to the partnerships’ key outcome areas, including Infant Health and Development; Kindergarten Readiness; Early Grade Reading; and Transition from High School to Postsecondary, College and/or Career. United Way of Western Connecticut serves as the anchor and backbone entity providing management and fiscal support for the partnership.
SC2C is a city-wide partnership whose goal is to collectively align community resources to ensure equity and excellence in education for all Stamford students. In October 2017, the SC2C partnership attained the Sustaining gateway level in the national StriveTogether model. Partnerships in the Sustaining gateway focus on using data in a continuous improvement process to identify improvements and interventions to impact an outcome, including: ensuring regular communication across the partnership, engaging partners and practitioners to improve community-level outcomes and mobilizing resources to remove financial, operational and political barriers that inhibit the impact.
To learn more about Mr. Worwood’s “Class of 2032” project, visit http://classof2032project.com or watch a video introduction here: https://vimeo.com/243761956
TRAILER: Class of 2032: Schooling for a Digital Culture from Matthew Worwood on Vimeo.