EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK
The strategic priority of our committee is to increase access to quality child care and education through the expansion of our education campaign to support parents, caregivers, and early childhood education providers in their role and to more fully integrate early childhood learning with its focus of the whole child with k-12 education.
MARCIA SCHLATTMAN
Milestones
LEYDA ALTUNEZ
Parent Educator
SUZY AMUNDSON
ReachUp/HeadsStart
BRIANDA CEDIEL
Hands Across the World
JULIE MIDAS
St. Cloud Area School District
AMY TROMBLEY
United Way PFSS
JULIA BJERKE
Sartell-St. Stephen Early Childhood
BETH GATHETU
Greater Minnesota Family Services
CAROL GIBSON-MILLER
St. Cloud State University
ALICIA JEPSEN
Benton-Stearns Education District
ANDREA PREPPERNAU
United Way PFSS
ALEXIS LUTGEN
United Way of Central Minnesota
JULIE MIDAS
St. Cloud Area School District
FAWZIA MOHAMED
Somali Women’s Alliance
FLORENCE ORIONZI
Catholic Charities
COLLEEN ORNE
Milestones
LORI POSCH
St. Cloud Area School District
PAT WELTER
PFSS Advisory Board
OUR K-8 NETWORK
The strategic priority of our committee is that the students of the St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids-Rice and
Sartell-St. Stephen school districts who emerge from their K-8 experience ready for success in high
school and beyond will be academically prepared, possess strong social and emotional skills, have asense of belonging, and view learning and education as important.
ABDIAZIZ ODIRIYE
Community Grassroots Solutions
BRIANDA CEDIEL
Hands Across the World
MOHAMED YUSSUF
EAGLE
JODI GETKEN
CentraCare
DR. MELISSA HANZSEK-BRILL
St. Cloud State University
BRIANNE HERN
St. Cloud Area School District
DR. ROBERT JOHNSON
St. Cloud State University Emeritus
DEAN KEPHART
SERVEMinnesota
DR. BETH MANN
St. Cloud State University
KARIN BLYTHE
Lutheran Social Services
KELLY FRANKENFIELD
St. Cloud Area School District
KRIS O'BRIEN
Sartell-St. Stephen Community Education
CLARINDA SOLBERG
United Way of Central Minnesota
ALICIA PETERS
College of St. Benedict
ANDREA PREPPERNAU
Parter For Student Success
KAREN PUNDSACK
Great River Regional Library
BRAD SCHERER
Sartell-St. Stephen School District
KATIE SCHNIDER
St. Cloud Area School District
JOHN SMITH
Promise Neighborhood
AMY TROMBLEY
Partner For Student Success
DR. PATRICIA WELTER
Partner For Student Success
GERI BECHTOLD
Boys and Girls Club of Central Minnesota
LORI POSCH
St. Cloud Area School District
JENNY BUSHMAN
Sauk Rapids-Rice School District
OUR CAREER AND POST-SECONDARY
READINESS NEWORK
The goal of our Post-Secondary Readiness teams is that every student is ready for career training or
post-secondary education. Our committees continue to develop and implement plans to achieve the
goal of career/post-secondary readiness for all students through community-wide work teams that
coordinate and engage multiple constituencies and existing initiatives and efforts in the Partnership
area.
TAMMY BIERY
CareerSolutions
JENNY BUSHMAN
Sauk Rapids-Rice School District
GAIL CRUIKSHANK
Greater St. Cloud Development Corporation
LES ENGEL
Engel Metallurgics ltd.
AARON FISK
Microbiologics
JANET GOLIGOWSKI
Stearns County
LUKE GREINER
DEED
KELLY HANSON
Park Industries
DON HICKMAN
Initiative Foundation
GAIL IVERS
St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce
TIMOTHY JOHNSON
CentraCare
DANIEL LARSON
United Way of Central Minnesota
MELISSA STRICHERZ
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts
ANN MATVICK
Big Brothers Big Sisters
KAY NELSON
Sartell-St. Stephen School District
LEAH SAMS
St. Cloud Area School District
LORI POSCH
St. Cloud Area School District
AMY TROMBLEY
Partner For Student Success
SUSAN JORDAHL
St. Cloud Technical and Community College
MICHELLE WANG
Resource Training and Solutions
MICHELLE SCHMITZ
St. Cloud State University
MARY SWINGLE
Boys and Girls Club
DATA TEAM
The Data team supports the mission of Partner for Student Success by helping the Board of Directors, staff, and community network use data well in planning, implementing, monitoring and improving efforts and initiatives. It is composed of individuals with expertise in evaluation and data analysis and is facilitated by the PFSS Data Manager. The team:
- Vets research carried out on behalf of PFSS staff and partner networks
- Develops and promotes quality standards and policies regarding indicators used by PFSS
- Advises on the development of a common framework and reporting format
- Advises on the development/testing of new goals and measures for PFSS
- Advises on the framework for evaluation of PFSS
