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LISTEN: Sounds of Session: Making Strides in Education with Rep. John Wyble
As the CEO of The Center for Literacy and Learning, Rep. John Wyble knows what’s working and what needs to be done to build on the state’s recent, foundational education reforms. He stopped by 5th & Main to join Mary Beth Derrickson, who serves as director of LABI’s Education & Workforce Council, for the latest episode of Sounds of Session. As mentioned earlier in our newsletter, HB 680 is a topic Mary Beth & Rep. Wyble dive into, along with his work to expand the wildly successful K-3 literacy training program he helped establish. Listen here!
“I love that one of the major policy priorities of LABI is cradle-to-career [pathways]. We have to tackle that at some point, early childhood to K-12 to post-secondary to workforce training, however that looks. There has to be seamless integration of families, communities, investors and policymakers.
“We don’t want to corner a sixth grader, seventh grader, eighth grader [and say] ‘hey, you’re going to be a nurse.’ There should be data and information that when you’re getting to those grade levels and you’re entering into high school, you have an idea of what you want to do and how that fits into your plans to stay here in Louisiana, because ultimately that’s the goal.”