00:22:50 Kasim Aslam: https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en 00:23:22 Emilie Winston-Cartwright: Thanks, Kasim! You read my mind. ;-) 00:33:32 Heather Angersoll: Wow! Wonderful! 00:33:42 Laura Delgado: Does anyone have advice or resources for finding legal support? I’m in my first year and don’t have an attorney. How can I go about finding one with limited funds? :/ 00:33:43 Katherine Bowen: Thank you, Mary Lou 00:33:44 Cara Friedline: Thank you Mary Lou! 00:33:47 Jan Malkar: Amen! 00:33:55 beth Huffman: Thank you This 00:33:57 Jan Deason: Thank you Mary Lou 00:33:59 Charlie Biggs: That was wonderful! Thank you so much! 00:34:05 Barbara Altbrandt: thank you 00:34:10 Rachael Buresh: Bravo - Thank you! 00:34:28 Claudia Bowen: Thank you Mareen that was wonderful. 00:34:32 Emilie Winston-Cartwright: Thank you! What a wonderful charge! We appreciate your positivity and action items. 00:34:32 Dolores Vazquez: Thank you Mary Lou! Spoken like a true Montessorian. 00:34:33 Laura Delgado: I run a home-based program. It’s just me. 00:34:37 Maureen Scudder: Excellent advice, Mary Lou. Thank you. 00:34:50 Lynda Dawson: Thank you Mary Lou! My biggest challenging with not reducing tuition is in regards to the youngest children (Toddlers especially) who are so hard to serve via online and if they are not able to be on campus, their working parents need to pay additional childcare costs in addition to tuition, which used to be their childcare 00:35:09 Jill Walsh: If you have a parent in your school who is an attorney, ask them for help! 00:35:16 Theresa Nobilski: How flexible do you think we should be with releasing families from their contracts. We have a June 1st cut off date where they are now responsible for the full tuition - however, some families have said they don’t want their child wearing a mask all day. Should we push that date back? 00:37:26 Heather Angersoll: Lynda. Your toddler and primary programs MAY be able to remain open if you are additionally licensed by your health department or state child and family services. In Florida, we are licensed by the Department of Children and Families and we legally allowed to remain open even when they closed k-12 school 00:39:27 Charlie Biggs: In Tennessee day care can stay open for children of essential workers. So you might be able to keep a small class goine. 00:39:39 Marnie McPherson: I was going to say something similar to Heather - we've been open on site this entire time as we are also a childcare center in our state of MN 00:39:47 Bodil Eriksson: With limited number of students in each classroom there will be parents that will loose care for their children. 00:40:16 Claudia Bowen: In IL we had to close and until now we reopen but we have a license for first responder provider 00:42:35 Bev Bechstein: If you keep your early childhood open under day care licensing, but have to close or go online with K-12, what would be the best way to handle the division of the Ks from the EC kiddos? 00:42:37 Bodil Eriksson: They have already put out a list to define what an essential worker is 00:44:25 Heather Angersoll: Bev. In Florida, if you are a licensed child care facility we are able to run summer camps, spring break camps, Christmas camps for school age children. You may be able to provide a "covid camp" 00:45:32 Heather Angersoll: for school age kids. I definitely wouldn't call it that though...lol 00:46:26 Wali: If you recommend refunding the tuition for toddlers during online learning, how does one continue to pay the teacher? 00:47:34 Maureen Scudder: Kasim, can you please clarify that Mary Lou Cobb has my name under her photo because I registered her. Thanks so much! :) 00:48:07 Kasim Aslam: Yes ma'am! 00:48:15 Marcy Cathey: Is anyone thinking about opening early? We are thinking that if we open in August and take a longer break between Thanksgiving and the New Year we could skip the 2nd wave. 00:49:38 Traci Gagnon: Christine, that is our plan too in Georgia. We have developed a Tiered Plan to remain open for the most students possible throughout the year 00:49:54 Jennifer Nolan: We are going to start two weeks early and will add a week at the end. 00:50:28 Kristin McAlister: We are doing the following:opening early, but so that we can have 3-4 flex weeks built in. (2 weeks early, one flex week at the end of the school and taking one spring break week if needed) When we go to distance learning, we will use those to give teachers time to adjust (in the case of long pauses) 00:51:18 Marcy Cathey: I have parents that want to opt out at 100%! We can't pay our teachers at that rate 00:52:59 Traci Gagnon: We decided to do a 5% reduction in tuition for next year and present our plan for staying in school as much as possible. We have used the contract addendum offered by Nido and asked parents to sign up knowing there is a possibility we could be learning from home at some point 00:53:31 Nirvair Khalsa: We hear the same from parents. Some children who engage in the prepared environment and can work independently in the classroom, do not do this with their parents in the home. Parenting skills vary sooo much, what the home environment is like 00:53:52 Laura Connor: Thanks Traci! Do you have a flexible calendar then as well? 00:55:01 Kristin McAlister: Also we are going stay open for 18 months through 6 and el essential workers. We structured our employment contracts so that they work a certain number of weeks between August 10 and June 18 and holiday weeks are flexible this year. They are being paid extra for the first tow weeks though. Finally, also went to parent consultations and training caregivers online to give more value to toddler parents. We also told parents now that we couldn’t offer reductions and we know that they need to pay more so they need to think about that now and we understand if it doesn’t work 00:58:48 Marcy Cathey: That's what I'm planning on doing--this is the most likely time that the flu will peak as part of a second wave 00:58:55 Josie Banda: We have created two calendars to send out, if we have to pivot to online we will forgo our fall break and do e learning thanksgiving till jan. 00:59:20 Brent Berdick: may colleges are doing the break from Thanksgiving to January 00:59:21 Lynda Dawson: The long Thanksgiving/Winter break for boarding schools is also good for students who travel home, mix with other Phase areas for COVID, not coming back and infecting the school community for those 3 weeks in between the holidays. 00:59:26 Bodil Eriksson: Maryland - MSDE is providing this clarification on child care operating procedures in Maryland. All parents are now eligible to access child care services. All child care providers may reopen, as long as they follow all health department protocols listed on the MSDE website and adhere to class size restrictions. In order to reopen, providers must contact their licensing specialist and complete a Child Care Verification of Reopening form. Class sizes in child care centers for three and four year olds are now expanded to a maximum of 15 individuals per classroom with a ratio of no more than 1:14. This is a temporary relaxing of the regulations for this age group only. All other ages must adhere to current regulation. 00:59:46 Laura Delgado: In response to Deena’s question, as an experiment, I continued virtual offerings for my toddler families through June though it’s been a fraction of what I offered during the “school year.” I did this for donation, and most parents opted to take advantage and donated between 35-50% of what they normally pay. I was able to do this because I don’t have overhead or a staff as a home-based program. 01:02:53 Erin Karnofski: For those of you who are adjusting calendars, are you also doing hybrid in person/online each week because of required smaller group sizes for social distancing? Our classroom space is maxed out, and we need to cut the classes in half (cohort A and cohort B) so it'll likely be a two day/week in person program for each cohort. 01:04:29 Kristin McAlister: We halted admissions in March so we are luckily able to accommodate everyone. We are taking Fridays off though so we have the ability to facilitate distance learning of kids who are home, clean, prof development. 01:05:36 Marcy Cathey: We are NY Tough! 01:06:59 Kasim Aslam: https://www.cobbeducationconsulting.com/ 01:08:15 Lynda Dawson: I also feel encouraged that even if we lose some of our current families, we may gain some new families because when they realize how much thought and work we are putting into providing a safe and healthy small cohort environment for their children vs. what the public schools are able to offer (just because of scale of size!) we may gain new enrollment and have a wait list next year even with a modified calendar or splitting our classes into two cohorts on campus half time each. 01:08:18 Tori Inkley: Thanks for that link! 01:08:37 Maureen Scudder: You can contact Mary Lou through her website https://www.cobbeducationconsulting.com/ or email her at maryloucobb74@gmail.com :) 01:08:57 Traci Gagnon: Thank you so much! 01:09:04 Emilie Winston-Cartwright: Thank you, Ms. Mary Lou! You are an inspiration! 01:09:06 Heidi Hewett: Thank you so much - this was terrific! 01:09:09 Brei Stevenson: THANK YOU!! 01:09:13 Lynda Dawson: Thank you Mary Lou and Kasim! 01:09:16 Charlie Biggs: Thank you! 01:09:18 Tori Inkley: Thank you!! 01:09:24 Claudia Bowen: thank you very much