Over 2000 individuals and 75 organizations from education to government to business to grass roots—contributed leadership and best practices to this human capital development Plan. The end-game is to grow a workforce prepared not only to work in our major industries, but to excel in them.
Strategies
The following are strategies to accomplish this vision:
- Implement campaign that encourages citizens to invest themselves in education and career advancement, and instill those values in their children.
- Strengthen and coordinate local lobbying efforts for state-funded pre-K for all four-year-olds.
- Support quality improvement for all ECE providers to expand Memphis Shelby County Quality Childcare Resource Center.
- Increase number of highest quality, accredited centers by expanding Ready, Set, Grow!
- Expand and coordinate campaigns that encourage parents to choose high-quality ECE.
- Adjust ECE funding system so more public funds are provided to ECE programs that demonstrate higher quality.
- Prioritize Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools spending on student achievement strategies that are proven by research.
- Conduct Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools regular third-party efficiency audits and publish results to demonstrate good stewardship of funds.
- Maintain momentum to fully fund the BEP 2.0 to expand state funding for high-quality K-12 education.
- Expand best practices for teacher and principal recruitment and development, including New Leaders for New Schools, Teach for America and the New Teacher Project.
- Expand education options for economically disadvantaged K-12 students.
- Strengthen and expand programs that engage parents in educating their children.
- Develop a plan to expand opportunities for youth access to high-quality after-school, weekend and summer programs in Shelby County.
- Identify public and private sources of WFD funding and lead grant collaboration among community stakeholders.
- Regularly inventory local industry workforce needs and provide this information to the community.
- Regularly conduct study of local labor force characteristics and provide study to the community.
- Inventory local WFD resources, including training programs, recruitment and web-based information, and provide this information to the community.
- Promote the growth of industry-relevant WFD programs through partnerships with sector-specific intermediary organizations.
- Help employers from all sectors recruit qualified employees.
- View the PeopleFirst! Plan [PDF, 451k]
- View the Performance Scorecard
- Learn about the MemphisED Plan
- Learn about the Operation Safe Community Plan
- Learn about the Government Efficiency Plan
