The National Center for Parents as Teachers will lead a Missouri Business Leader Summit on Early Childhood Investment in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, The Coordinating Board for Early Childhood, and the Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network.

The purpose of the summit is to engage Missouri business leaders in making investments in young children by sharing emerging evidence on the economic benefits of these investments. The Missouri Business Leader Summit on Early Childhood Investment will be held this Fall at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Attendance to this meeting is by invitation only.

Agenda

View the agenda here(PDF).

Summit Materials

See the leave behind card here(PDF).

View the summit evaluation here(PDF).

View the Save the Date here.

For a sample invitation letter, click here.

Speakers

• James Bullard, President, St. Louis Federal Reserve
• James Heckman, 2000 Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago Professor in Economics
• Lisa Klein, Executive Director, Birth to Five Policy Alliance
• Richard Barron, President/CEO, McCormick, Baron, Salazar
• Lee Fetter, President, St. Louis Children' s Hospital
• Richard Sems, President/CEO, National City Bank in St. Louis
• Sara Watson, Director, Partnership for America's Economic Success
• Susan Stepleton, President/CEO, Parents as Teachers National Center
• Tyler Nottberg, President/CEO, U.S. Engineering (View his speech here!)
  
  

Media Coverage

View the press release.
Read the announcement.
Visit the Parents as Teachers National Center blog.

Nancy Cambria. "Federal economist says early childhood education makes sense." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 29, 2009.