Location/Start and End Date and Time:  
There will be an optional, light reception on Tuesday, October 15th at 5pm EST. The convening will begin with registration and breakfast at 8:00am ET on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, on the garden level of the Gutman Library Conference Center located at 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138. The official program will begin at 8:45am sharp. The program will end on Friday, October 18, 2024 at 12:30pm. Greeters will be stationed at the front of the Gutman Library Conference Center to welcome you. The Gutman Library Conference Center is a short 5-minute walk from The Charles Hotel.

Canvas:
EdRedesign will be using the Canvas platform during the Fellowship Program to make announcements and share materials, resources, and assignments. Canvas will serve as the place where Partnership Leaders can find everything, they will need to fully engage in different aspects of the Fellowship Program. You can expect to receive an email from Canvas, which will prompt you to create an account the week of September 23rd.

Wi-Fi & Technology:
Wireless internet can be accessed on campus. Login information will be provided at registration. Attendees can also review this information on how to access Harvard University Wi-Fi. 

Meals and Dining:
Breakfast, lunch, beverages, and snacks will be provided each day. Guests should make their own plans for dinner on Tuesday, October 15th after the Optional Reception at the Winthrop House with light appetizers. Dinner will be provided on Wednesday, October 16th during small group meals at Harvest Restaurant. There will be a Cocktail Reception with hearty appetizers and drinks on Thursday, October 17th from 5:00-7:30pm at Bar Enza Restaurant, located on the second floor of the Charles Hotel.   

Attire:

• If you are attending the optional, light reception on Tuesday, October 15, the dress code is casual.
• The dress code for the main convening days is business casual except for Wednesday, October 16, as we invite you to wear any Community Swag you might have that captures the spirit of your organization or community! This could be a T-shirt, sweater, hat, or something else.
• Temperatures in October in Cambridge typically range between the 60s during the day, and cooler at night, roughly around the 40s.

Travel Arrangements:

• EdRedesign will cover your round-trip flights or trains. To make your flight or train reservations, please contact Rosanne McGoldrick at the Travel Collaborative. She can be reached at rmm@travelcoll.com. We recommend arriving in the late afternoon on Tuesday, October 15th and departing after 3:30pm EST on Friday, October 18th. There will be an optional, light reception on Tuesday, October 15th at 5pm EST.
• Please note that unfortunately due to recent airline industry changes, it is not possible to include checked luggage fees on the ticket. Fees for checked bags will be the traveler’s responsibility and will be due when bags are checked at the airport.  
• The deadline for booking your flights is Friday, September 13th. When reaching out to Rosanne, she will need to know the following information: name as it appears on government-issued I.D. or passport, date of birth, cell phone number, city of departure, and any airline preference and TSA or Global Entry number.
• An important disclaimer: Once your flight is authorized through Travel Collaborative, it is officially booked. Should you need to make any changes afterwards, please reach out to Rosanne McGoldrick.

Hotel Accommodations:
EdRedesign will cover the cost of your hotel room and taxes at a single-occupancy rate at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square for checking in on Tuesday, October 15^th and checking out on Friday, October 18^th. This hotel is a short, easy 5-minute walk to where the convening is held each day.

Unless you opted out of the hotel in your registration form, we have reserved hotel rooms for all guests traveling from out of state. By the end of September, guests will receive their reservation confirmation via email directly from the Charles Hotel.

Note: Please be aware we are unable to pay for any other hotels if you choose to stay elsewhere. Additional nights or guests, as well as any incidental expenses and no-show fees, will be the traveler’s responsibility. While room and tax are covered, guests are still required to have a card on file for check-in to cover incidentals.  If you are interested in extending your stay outside of the covered evenings, the hotel cannot guarantee the room block rate or availability for any additional nights. Please email Shoshana Zuckerman, EdRedesign Senior Program Coordinator, at shoshana_zuckerman@gse.harvard.edu if you need to modify your reservation dates.

Changes:
Thank you for swiftly reaching out if there are any changes to your travel and hotel needs so we can update our guest information accordingly.

Ground Transportation:
EdRedesign will provide each fellow with a unique Lyft code that will cover 4x trips (home to airport, airport to conference, conference to airport, airport to home). Each trip can be up to $75, and the voucher includes the ability to add up to a 20% tip for the driver for each trip. If you run into any issues, please contact Shoshana at 978-884-4506. Please do not pay out pocket for any of the rides – a staff member will help pay for your ride if you run into any issues with the code.

Parking:
For local participants driving to and from Cambridge each day for the event, validated parking is available at University Place Garage, 45 University Road. If there is a sign that the garage is full, inform the parking attendant that you are part of the EdRedesign parking block, and they will let you in. The garage is a 5-minute walk to the Gutman Library Conference Center. Please see a member of the EdRedesign staff to obtain a validation ticket before you return to your car at the end of the day. We regret that we are unable to reimburse out-of-pocket expenses: you must use the designated garage and validation ticket to have your parking covered.

Please be aware of the following process for the validated onsite parking: 

1. You will get a regular white parking ticket when you enter the garage. 
2. When you arrive for registration at Gutman Library Conference Center, request a parking voucher for each day you will attend the workshop. 
3. When you leave the garage at the end of each day, insert the white ticket and then insert the colored parking voucher as payment.  
4. If you have any difficulty using the parking voucher, please see the parking attendant at the garage. All the vouchers have been pre-paid and will cover your full parking cost for the day. 

Please find the agenda here.  

Please find a list of speakers and their bios here. 

Pre-Work and Pre-Reads

You can find an overview of the pre-work for each day below. Please note that in a couple of places, we’ve noted coming soon but we wanted to give you an overall sense of how much pre-work there will be so you can plan your time over the next couple of weeks. Engaging with the pre-reads before the event is critical as our time in person will be spent in discussion, not reviewing content. Please continue to check back on the event website for additional pre-read materials before traveling to Cambridge.   

Day 1: Wednesday, October 16^th, 2024 

• Community Building: On the first day, we will have some time to share more about each other’s work and communities. As a part of this, please bring something that represents the community you work with. You will get a chance to share more about the object you choose to bring during the activity. Shout out to Brady for suggesting this be incorporated into the event!  
• Pre-Reads:
  • Building Your Narrative: Learn more about the Public Narrative: Story of Self, Story of Us, Story of Now framework, which we will begin to explore together in person by exploring this overview. You do not have to complete the activities within the overview. 

Day 2: Thursday, October 17^th, 2024 

• Pre-Reads:
  • Cross-Boundary Collaborations in Cities: Where to Start: This article shares insights from the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative study on cross-boundary collaboration in cities, which studied the early stages of 10 cross-boundary collaborations from cities across North America and Europe. The article focuses on the conditions under which cross-boundary collaborators work best and what effective teams do to gain momentum.  
  • How the White House is Continuing to Prioritize Equity: This article explores trends and patterns across the 2023-24 equity plans released by the White House. This equity plans offer insights into how more than 20 major federal agencies intend to incorporate fairness in outcomes for all, which can provide valuable insights for cradle-to-career leaders for engaging with the government.  
  • "When Families Thrive, Children Succeed": How the Mission Economic Development Agency Created a Transformational Prenatal-to-Career Model: This case study highlights the strategic steps that propelled MEDA’s growth into one of the leading examples of how place-based collaboration can change the life trajectories of local residents while maintaining the culture and heritage of the community.  
• <Optional> Learning from National Networks: If you’re unfamiliar with any of the National Network models that we will be learning more about in person, explore each organization further in the links: Partners for Rural Impact, Purpose Built Communities, StriveTogether, and William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone.  

Day 3: Friday, October 18^th, 2024  

• Pre-Reads:
  • IBM and the Reinvention of High School: Proving the P-Tech Concept: We will leverage this case study to explore the challenges and opportunities involved in scaling innovative models and initiatives in education.  

We welcome Fellows to use our social media kit to announce their participation in the Launch of the Fellowship on October 15-18 and help us promote it widely. Use the hashtag #EdRedesignC2CFellows

Below you will find our press kit, designed to help Fellows engage with their local media outlets:

Talking Points about the Fellowship

About The EdRedesign Lab

Press Release: EdRedesign Launches Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders 

EdRedesign Logo:

If you would like to familiarize yourself with the Harvard campus, you are welcome to check out this Harvard Campus Map. At the top of the webpage, there is a search bar where you can input locations you want to know about.

Cambridge and the greater Boston area are home to many local attractions. The following are links to suggested activities and places to eat in Cambridge and nearby Boston: 

• Local Attractions and Dining
• Where to Eat in Cambridge’s Central Square 
• The 38 Best Restaurants in Boston
• Black-Owned Restaurants in Boston
• Things to Do in Boston
• 17 Best Things to Do in Boston 
• Things to Do in Harvard Square
• American Repertory Theater