copper mountain collegeCopper Mountain College invites the Morongo Basin community, teachers, instructors, educational leaders, business leaders and resource managers to the first Basin Wide Education Summit on March 6 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Bell Center Community Room.

The Summit supports the San Bernardino County Office of Education’s Cradle to Career Initiative for Student Success.

The Summit hopes to establish basin-wide priorities, strategies, and networks for creating a cohesive K-16 “Cradle to Career” approach to educational success and new levels of collaboration between Copper Mountain College, community and educational partners.

Diane “Di” Strachan, the director of Positive Futures, will facilitate the Summit. She has provided 25 years of city, county, state, and national development and marketing services, leadership training, along with successful development facilitation for communities in transition. She has helped tackle tough community college issues and worked with UC Santa Cruz along with hundreds of small businesses and resource agency managers throughout rural California.

Please don’t forget to RSVP your space to Jolie Alpin at jalpin@cmccd.edu.