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.

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Fourth Annual Education Summit

From Insight to Impact: Shaping the Future of Our Systems

October 29, 2025, at Mayo Civic Center

  • "I am a first-time attendee, and this was phenomenal. Keep up the amazing work, uplifting voices and inspiring others to do the same!"

  • "This was an incredible event that I plan to share with community partners next year."

  • "Great options for breakouts and amazing keynote presentations."

  • "There was something for every member of my team."

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

Previous Annual Education Summits

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

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