C2C’s Annual Education Summit
Cradle 2 Career’s Annual Education Summit brings together people from all walks of life who care about educational outcomes in Rochester for a day of learning, collaboration, and action. Together, we explore exciting ways to support our young people from early childhood to their careers.
Thank you to all the sponsors for our 2026 Annual Education Summit!
Fifth Annual Education Summit
Instruments of Change: How We All Play A Part
October 20, 2026, at Mayo Civic Center
Get Out of Your Head: Clearing The Beliefs That Hold Us Back
Adult Mental Health First Aid: Supporting Those Behind Youth Success
Building Mathematical Thinkers: How Communities Can Support Student Success
Youth Health Coalition: Community Partnerships Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Youth Mental Health
Beyond Internships: A Low-Cost Model for Authentic Student Work Experiences
Authentic Engagement
Teaching Struggling Readers: Working Together Using Science and Proven Techniques
The Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework - A Community Approach
From Reporting to Supporting: A Mindset Shift for Our Community
From Youth Voice to Community Leadership: Growing Through Service
Turning Student Support Into Lasting Change
Two Generations, One Future: Disrupting Poverty in Rochester Jeremiah Program
Fifth Annual Summit Presentations (2026)
Student Talks (Joanna Richard)
Student Talks (Loujane Omar)
Student Talks (Leah Baethke)
Brain Fitness: Building a Community of Mental Wellness Superheroes
From Awareness to Action: Strengthening Prenatal Support in Our Community
Partnerships in Practice: Building Pathways for Student Success
PEPP: Building Early Childhood Mental Health Through Partnership
Not So Micro: Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions in Practice
From Community Voice to Collective Action: Inside RPS 2030
Student to Student Mentoring
A Stronger Start, Together: Building an Aligned System for Young Children
The Hidden Sentence: Supporting Children and Adolescents With Incarcerated Families
Who Believed in You? The Investment That Changes Everything
Career Pathways Come to the Fore: Moving Past CTE versus 4-Year College
Youth Co-Design: Tapping an Under-Utilized Asset For Stronger Communities
To Lead is to Serve: Creating Servant Leaders
Beyond the Courtroom: Transforming Truancy Through Collaborative Restorative Practice
Building Rochester’s Next Decade: Education, Workforce, & Economic Opportunity
The Power of Connecting Across Local, Regional, State, and National Levels: Nested Civic Infrastructure and Cradle to Career
The Power of Talk: From Play to Print
Why Educators Stay: Leadership Lessons for Retention and Commitment
How Does Collective Impact Actually Work: The Cradle 2 Career Story
Don’t Create a New Song-Join the One Already Playing: Rethinking Engagement
Previous Annual Education Summits
Fourth Annual Summit Presentations (2025)
The Path Forward: Aligning Local Results With Workforce Realities
Institutional Commitment and Classroom Approaches to Student Wellbeing at UMR
Rochester Public Library Master Plan
From Shared Insight to Shared Success: Expanding College Financial Aid Access
From Cradle 2 Career: Our Journey Toward Transforming Systems
All Nighter for Student Talk
Empowering Leadership Teams with Generative AI to Drive Community Engagement
Body Confident Schools
Bystanders Don't Have A Clean Record
Collective Action for Stronger School-Community Partnerships
Building Bridges: Culturally Responsive Family Engagement
Ending Family Homelessness through Collaborative Practices
Building a Shared Understanding of Mathematical Practices for K-12 Student Success
C2C Data Exploration
Public Health, Public Spaces, Public Events: Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Youth
Leveraging Data to Understand Student Attendance Patterns
Healthcare Starts Here: High-Impact Career Literacy Programming for the Next Generation
Psychosocial First Responders: Child Life Specialists in Community Settings
Coping to Thriving
Creating Powerful Moments in Education Environments
Deep Science of Reading Instruction in Schools
We Built It, Did They Come? And Who Are They Anyway? Defining Users of a Statewide Integrated Data System
Empowering Communities Through Civic Action and Cross-Sector Collaboration
Enhancing Student & Teacher Wellbeing through Nature-based Therapeutic Strategies
To Policy or Not to Policy" May No Longer Be the Question
Pathways to Possibility: The Graduation Journey
Doulas Make The Difference: Expanding Prenatal Support in Olmsted County
Shaping Integrated Education for Families of Children with Differing Abilities
Reading Between the Lines: Debunking Myths & Supporting Multilingual Minds
Ripple Effects: Using Human-Centered Design to Rethink Your Systems
Every Student Challenged to Strive. Supported to Thrive.
See the Whole Story: Understanding Families and the Patterns that Shape Them
Spark: Community Connections
Student Talks
Ready for the First Day: Aligning Systems for a Successful Transition to Kindergarten
Tips for Nature-based Teaching
Understanding Youth Vaping: Local Impact, Health Risks, and How to Start the Conversation
Your Difference is Your Superpower
Families as Data: Using Lived Experience to Shape Systems
Third Annual Summit Presentations (2024)
RPS Referendum 2024
Minimum Viable Benefit (MVB) approach to Cross-Sector Collaboration
Brain-Based School Environments
Students in Transition
The Pitch!
Education Beam Collective Impact Portal
Increasing the Success Rate of Reunification: An Innovative Collaboration
Connecting and Collaborating to Build Capacity
C2C’s Journey Towards Changing Systems
Community Co-Design
Empowering Futures: Bridging Financial Aid and Housing Support for Rochester Students
Examining Complex Family Structures Using the Power of Triangles and Other Impactful Assessments
Empowering Youth
Promise Advocate Cohort
Early Childhood Family Services
Enhancing Student & Teacher Wellbeing through Nature-based Therapeutic Strategies
Aligning Local, State, and National Advocacy and Action to Maximize Collective Impact
How Leveraging Communications Drive Collective Impact
Knowledge Matters
Launching an Early Childhood Resource Hub through Strategic Partnerships
Creative and Progressive Recruitment
Mindfulness and Play: Reigniting Fun, Curiosity, and Joy in Schools
Prenatal Care Access Co-Design
Project Momentum
Youth Leading City’s Mental Wellness Strategy Development
The Science of Reading and Multilingual Learners
Social-Emotional Learning Co-Design
Empowering Southeast Minnesota: Tools Proven to Bridge the Gap in Ed and Industry
STOP Grant: Listening to Student Voices on School Safety
Youth Decoded: The Mental Health Database
