Hosted
September 16th
Duration
1:00:06
Speakers
Ericca Maas
Ericca Maas is the Executive Director of Close Gaps by 5, a nonprofit organization formed in 2016 to promote the use of targeted high quality early education to address Minnesota’s worst-in-the-nation achievement gaps.
Ericca will talk about the key role that organization has played in promoting early childhood education in Minnesota, including its early work on establishing a rating system for quality child care and its current contributions to increasing the number of early learning scholarships for at-risk children.
Speakers
Ericca Maas
Executive Director at Minnesota non-profit Close Gaps by 5
Ericca is on a mission to ensure that Minnesota’s system of early care and education strategies and investments fully prepares all young children — particularly those living in poverty — to enter kindergarten with the cognitive, social-emotional, physical and language skills they need for success in school, life and career. Close Gaps by 5 does this by advocating for a system that includes: Parent Aware Ratings, which give parents information about early care and education program quality and support program quality improvement; and Early Learning Scholarships, which provide low-income families with resources to access the quality program of their choice.