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.

Register Now for the Fourth Annual Education Summit

From Insight to Impact: Shaping the Future of Our Systems

October 29, 2025, at Mayo Civic Center

  • "All of the sessions I attended were wonderful!"

  • “I learned new information about the great work being done and made new connections.”

  • “Excellent! Very high-quality keynote, panel, and event. Keep up the strong representation.”

  • “I signed up not thinking this was for me, but I left SO GLAD I attended!”

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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