AGENDA          

MANSFIELD ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

6:30-8:00 PM

Council Chambers- Town Hall

PLEASE CALL 429-3315 ASAP IF YOU ARE

UNABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING

-Desired Outcomes: -Adopt 5/6/09 Meeting Minutes

-The group will process the Graustein evaluation form with our Liaison Cindy

-MAC members will review a readiness for Kindergarten survey used by the Town of Ledyard

-MAC members will nominate and vote in a new Chair or Co-Chairs

-MAC will be updated on LWG Progress

-MAC members will create new program year calendar-consider theme meetings, especially recruitment meeting,

 and a meeting for Week of the Young Child activities                

WHAT (Topic)	HOW (Process)	WHO (Roles)	WHEN (Time)
Open	-Welcome -Vote to adopt 5/6/09 Minutes	Anne	6:30-6:40
GMF Evaluation	-Cindy Guerreri will lead the group in the process of evaluating our Graustein Discovery Grant work for 2008-09	Cindy	6:40-7:30
LWG Update	First Draft considerations Governance partly MAC	Sandy	7:30-7:40
Transition Tool	Share Pre Kindergarten Survey from Ledyard	Sandy/Anne
New Calendar	-For New calendar year: First or second Wednesday -Theme meetings and Regularly occurring topics	Sandy	7:40-7:50
Next Meeting	-Next meeting (NO Meetings in July and Aug.) -Recommendations from the group for the next meeting	Sandy and Anne	7:50-8:00

CT State Department of Education (SDE) Website and Early Childhood: www.sde.ct.gov on the right side click “Early Childhood”, in the center of that page click School Readiness, click center to find rules called “General Policies and Program Operations”, (recently updated).