what is C5?

The best solutions to local problems are created when individuals and organizations work together over the long term.

MISSION
The Cocke County Cradle to Career Coalition--C5--broadly seeks to accelerate progress toward cradle-to-career outcomes for children in Cocke County through proactive, collaborative engagement of all community stakeholders.  The initiative is not a program, but rather strives to achieve this result through collective impact efforts.

VISION
All Cocke County students will graduate from high school with the necessary skills to pursue post-secondary opportunities and to become productive citizens.

desired outcomes

Kindergarten REadiness

All children in Cocke County will enter kindergarten ready to learn.

3rd Grade reading

All children in Cocke County will exit 3rd grade reading on grade level.

Ready Graduate

All students in Cocke County will graduate ready to enter postsecondary education or the workforce.​

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december's CDTK skills

Count to 25. 

• Start with fewer numbers, such as 1-5 or 1-10.  As your child learns these sets, add numbers, such as 1-15 or 1-20 until child can count numbers to 25.
• Use flashcards to help your child identify numbers to 25. Lay cards on the floor.  Call out a number and have child pick up that particular card. Or have your child pick up any card and tell you the number.  

Walking/Hopping/Skipping/Stairs 

• Have your child count steps, hops, skips, and stairs to practice these motor skills and counting to 25.

  
Practice picking up small objects with pinch motion.

• Let your child count items such as spoons, crayons, coins, game pieces, cereal, etc.

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SPOTLIGHT ON RESULTS FROM YEAR 1:

• Increase in kindergarten readiness for Cocke County from 49% to 52%.
• Increase in kindergarten readiness for Centerview students from 38% in 2019 to 50% in 2020.

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​In Year One, Centerview Elementary School was identified as a target population for improving Kindergarten Readiness (KR) Skills. Monthly meetings in which parents and caregivers had breakfast with their Pre-K child and group meetings to support KR Skills were held in September through March. Covid-19 school closings prevented meetings in April and May.

Freddie’s mother attended every breakfast meeting! She used the resources and Count Down to Kindergarten (CDTK) log to help Freddie with KR Skills at home. She said, “The breakfast meetings and CDTK resources were very helpful because they let me know what they (students) needed to know and should be doing.”

“The CDTK program made parents aware of what was expected of kindergarten students. Freddie’s mother working with him at home made a big difference in him being ready for kindergarten.” 
​- Centerview, Pre-K Teacher

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Working alongside families, schools, and communities to support children across Cocke County.

Kindergarten readiness     third grade reading     ready graduate