Executive Office on Early Learning (EOEL)

Early Learning Board Meeting

Thursday, September 12, 2024

AGENDA

1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

 

Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Center for Early Education and Development (CEED), 2nd Floor Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Association (KCAA Preschools of Hawaii)

2707 South King Street, Honolulu, HI 96826

The public may attend the meeting in person or remotely via the ZOOM link (see below)

2707 South King Street, Honolulu, HI 96826

The Chair will preside virtually via Zoom

 

Early Learning Board Mission: To support children’s academic and lifelong well-being by directing and supporting the Executive Office on Early Learning for an effective, coordinated, high-quality early learning system from prenatal to kindergarten entry.

 

Board expectations:

• Inquiry mindset. Ask informed questions. Other mindsets are equity, bold, and radical. (Anne Douglass)
• Come informed: Written reports to be read before meetings. Meeting time can be utilized for discussion and decision-making. Not all written reports require decision-making.
• County representatives should be informed about early learning in their
• Shifting in our thinking from seeing early educators as objects of change to agents of change.
  (Anne Douglass)

 

The Board will accept public testimony with each agenda item. Public comments are limited to 2 minutes per agenda item and must address items listed on the published agenda

 

I.	Welcome/Mission/Announcements/Roll call: Elaine Yamashita	1:30 – 1:35
II.	Review and Approve Minutes: Elaine Yamashita Action: Approve 07/11/24 Meeting Minutes	1:35 – 1:40
III.	Board member report on BUILD Quality Improvement Summit: Sulma Gandhi, Elaine Yamashita Outcome: Information	1:40 – 1:50
IV.	Executive Office on Early Learning Updates Report: Director Arikawa-Cross/Staff	1:50 – 2:35

 

	Roadmap to Achieve the Objectives of Act 46 and Act 210 (SLH 2021) related to early learning and early childhood care opportunities in the State of Hawaii by 2032 – Public Pre-Kindergarten Expansion & Early Learning Board (ELB): ●        Workforce Development and Support ●        Facilities for Early Childhood Education Programs ●        Funding for the Early Care and Education Mixed Delivery System ●        Program Quality Improvement and Maintenance ●        Health Mental Health & Nutrition ○     Promotion of Oral Health – Hawaiʻi Dental Service Foundation Grant ●        Systems Updates ○     New Hire to EOEL ■     PreK Educational Specialist ■     Research Statistician ■     Office Assistant ○     Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Summit Learning ○     Quarterly Preschool Development Grant B-5 Update ■     Goal 1: Comprehensive Needs Assessment ■     Goal 2: Updating the State Plan ■     Goal 3: Parent and Family Engagement ■     Goal 4: Workforce ■     Goal 5: Program Quality Improvement ■     Goal 6: Enhance Quality and Expand Access ○     Legislative Update: Submission of ACT 46 Report (available on EOEL website)   EOEL Biennium Requests and Legislative Proposals –          Budget and Personnel Asks related to Expansion (Action Item Number 2) –          Legislation to formally repeal section 302L-10, HRS –          Legislation to amend section 302L-1.6(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes (“HRS”)   Outcome: Information/Questions/Discussion
V.	Finance committee: Stephen Schatz Proposed salary adjustment for EOEL Executive Director.   Working on proposed salary schedule for EOEL Executive Director.   Outcome: Information/Questions/Discussion/Vote on salary adjustment	2:35-2:50
	Break	2:50-3:00
VI.	Schedule for vice-chair election: Governance committee, Dayna Luka for Matt Shim Process was approved at 7/11/24 meeting. Schedule for nominations, self-nomination, and vote.   Outcome: Information	3:00 – 3:10
VII.	Status of EOEL Executive Director evaluation process: Governance committee, Dayna Luka for Matt Shim	3:10 – 3:20

 

	Proposed annual schedule.   Outcome: Information/Questions/Discussion
VIII.	Proposed travel policy for voting board members: Governance committee, Dayna Luka for Matt Shim   Outcome: Information/Questions/Discussion/Vote
IX.	Proposed standing subcommittee: Legislative matters. Elaine Yamashita   Outcome: Discussion. Action: Refer to Governance for follow up.	3:10 – 3:20
X.	Clarification and update on Act 156 (SB 2475 SD2 HS2 CD1) – Establishing the Harm to Students Registry: –                    Currently Dept. of Education (DOE), Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools (HAIS), and EOEL are working on implementation. Because the statute refers to education, Dept. of Human Services (DHS) licensed child care programs are not currently required to consult the registry, although they have access. The harm to students registry would have a record of complaints that do not necessarily lead to prosecution and conviction. Fingerprint and criminal history checks reflect convictions. –                    Update: DOE campuses with non-DOE or EOEL early childhood programs are screening those teachers and aides as volunteers on campus. Volunteers are subject to the requirement.   Outcome: Information.	3:20 – 3:40
XI.	In-person retreat for board members – Elaine Yamashita Oct. 10, 8:30 – 12. Open to public (no zoom access)	3:40 – 3:55
XII.	Review Agenda Outcomes/Announcements/Closing – Elaine Yamashita	3:55 – 4:00

 

Next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 10, 2024

 

Public Written Testimony addressing items on the agenda: Interested persons may submit written testimony via email to Tara Castrovinci at [email protected]. For easier recognition, please include the word “TESTIMONY” in the email subject line. Testimony may also be hand delivered or mailed to Tara Castrovinci, Executive Office on Early Learning, Prince Jonah Kuhio Elementary, 2759 S. King Street, Room C8, Honolulu, HI, 96826. Written testimony must be received no later than 3 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2024, for Board consideration and possible inclusion in the Board Packet. Any written testimony submitted after such time will be retained as part of the record and will be distributed to Board members at the beginning of the meeting. Written testimony may be part of the Board Packet and posted on the Board website;

 

given that possibility, the public should be mindful about sharing personal information in their written testimony.

 

Remote Oral Testimony addressing items on the agenda may also be provided during the meeting. To provide Video/Zoom Testimony, interested persons may use the Zoom Meeting link

 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87057448197. They may use any one of the following methods to offer oral testimony: indicate in the chat they wish to offer oral testimony when the Chair announces an agenda item; call or email Tara Castrovinci (see email/phone number below) by 9 am on the day of the meeting to request that the testifier be called on by name to present oral testimony; or, use the “raise hand” feature in Zoom. Public oral testimony is limited to 2 minutes per agenda item and must address items listed on the published agenda.

 

Board Packets (Meeting Materials) are available on the EOEL/ELB Website at

 https://rebrand.ly/ELB. The Board Packet will also be available for public inspection in the EOEL’s Office (Prince Jonah Kuhio Elementary, 2759 S. King Street, Room C8, Honolulu, HI, 96826)

 

The ELB is conducting in-person meetings at the CEED/KCAA Preschools of Hawaii location (2707 South King Street, 2nd floor, Honolulu, HI 96826) with some Board members joining remotely. The Public may attend the meeting in-person, or may join remotely using the link below:

 

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