Collier County County Public Schools (CCPS) is committed to supporting children and families in continuous learning. When the schools are closed for any reason, CCPS encourages parents and caregivers to have students engage in academic activities with a structured schedule. As such, the CCPS Curriculum and Instruction Division has developed lessons and resources to ensure learning is continuous.
Source: Collier County Public Schools
Collier County Public Schools (CCPS) continues to monitor the rapidly changing situation regarding COVID-19, CCPS would like to share updated information regarding school closure.
A partner organization since Future Ready Collier’s founding, the Guadalupe Center has a 35-year history of, as their organizational mission decrees, using educational opportunity to help break the cycle of poverty for the children of Immokalee. Currently, Guadalupe is heavily involved in Future Ready Collier (FRC), intentionally encouraging and enabling their leadership and staff at all levels to support the initiative.
Future Ready Collier partner organizations, with pilot funding from the Early Learning Coalition, have embarked on an initiative to facilitate a better completion rate among candidates for Child Development Associate (CDA) certification. The preferred minimum credential for employment among early childhood educators is a CDA paired with a two-year degree. Stakeholders are proactively enabling candidates who have completed all CDA coursework to finalize their portfolio and undergo structured assessment to earn the certification. This effort coincides with goals to increase rates of achievement of Associate’s and Bachelor’s degrees, to ensure a more robust pipeline of educators equipped to meet existing student need. Collaborators agree this is a both practical and valuable means of helping teachers, schools, and students alike.
We are pleased to announce that the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation College Scholarship Program is now accepting applications for the 2020 -21 academic year.
Tim Ferguson is respected throughout Collier County for his bold leadership of Grace Place, successfully steering the organization through a substantial capital campaign and major campus expansion, and shepherding its mission to raise up communities through collective engagement, literacy, and educational opportunity. With characteristic confidence, Tim, an early supporter of Future Ready Collier, offers as an observation that we are “on the threshold of collective impact becoming the way we do business in Collier County.” Grace Place, under Tim’s thoughtful watch, has been an instrumental player in Future Ready Collier since its inception. Counting more than 60 partner organizations, Future Ready Collier is enabling individual organizations to combine efforts, resources, and ideas to generate real results for Collier County’s educational system.
You are invited to join Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Kamela Patton, and a panel of experts for a Collier County
Public Schools Virtual Symposium on Preparing Your Child to be Life Ready! Topics of discussion will include:
Calling all 10th grade students! There is still time to apply for the College & Career Preparation Program through Champions For Learning.
To learn more or to apply, visit:
Contributed by: Champions For Learning
Just this week, one of our Future Ready Collier partners, Pathways Early Education Center, shared exciting news
Are you a high school junior? Do you have interest in furthering your knowledge about Collier County and community leadership?
If you answered YES to both of these questions, you should consider applying for Youth Leadership Collier™!