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What an inspiring and historic collective launch of our first virtual summer teacher training!  Proud of your leadership and grateful for the Team Impact family (Kristine, LaKeisha, Khadijah, Nate, Allison, Quanna, etc) who are pitching in to ensure our first year teachers are set up for success this fall.

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Check out this flip book for all of VSTT's week 1 happenings and to see what our corps members are receiving. This weekly flip book will start being shared with all staff each week.

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Keep Informed On All Marketing & Comms Happenings

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Keep Informed On All Marketing & Comms Happenings

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Join #mct_open slack channel and invite any and all regional staff who touch marketing and comms for the region to join.

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Make sure you bookmark:
1). TFA's current message guidance
2). TFA's social media guidance

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In case you missed this article, it's an important read right now...

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In case you missed this article, it's an important read right now...

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Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death Is...A Lot

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As we begin another fiscal year, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the collective impact of this team in FY20 and share Q1 strategic and operational headlines. Please see the linked slides and reach out to Tegan Carr with questions.

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Our Home Team landed 96% to goal as a collective unit, which was $1.8M off our collective goal of $44.5M. HUGE Congratulations to the four regions who hit goal: Baltimore, Charlotte-Piedmont Triad, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

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ED & PARTNER ACTION BY JUNE 30 || Complete Our Annual Survey 

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ED & PARTNER ACTION BY JUNE 30 || Complete Our Annual Survey 

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As we kick-off another fiscal year as a home team, please take 10 mins to update your personal information.

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Also be sure to bookmark this resource which houses detailed message guidance and resources aligned to our org's top line messages.

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TFA's Weekly External Comms Update & Calendar 

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TFA's Weekly External Comms Update & Calendar 

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Make sure you bookmark this weekly external comms update and calendar which houses TFA's top line messages, all recent org communication and calendar ahead.

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Eastern North Carolina Regional Board Updates 

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Eastern North Carolina Regional Board Updates 

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ENC continues to lead and effectively communicate with their regional board. Check out their latest update here.

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Congratulations to TFA Jacksonville on a phenomenal year!  Read their Q4 Board Report

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Don't miss this important conversation on the characteristics of strong leadership during a crisis.

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Sharing an uplifting story out of Charlotte Piedmont Triad 

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Sharing an uplifting story out of Charlotte Piedmont Triad 

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Don't miss this story of a Charlotte corps member who continues to work while getting treatment for cancer.

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Sharing one story of how our corps members are leading right now 

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Sharing one story of how our corps members are leading right now 

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Recent feature on a Twin Cities CM

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Congratulations to the Jax team! Since launching their 3 year fundraising campaign in October, they have secured 14 multi-year commitments totaling $2.06M! Way to go Jax!

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Just a reminder that Katherine is available for annual planning and talent/culture support while Quanna is leading on the Summer Core Team. She will share more resources re: performance management and other HA related topics as they become available here but please reach out individually as needed.

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A lot of staff members have already raised their hand here- thank you!  See Sam's note below and share as you can.
UPDATE on Summer Training Roles
With 28 days until the start of Summer Training, we still have just under 100 open roles.  Our ability to deliver on this critical priority for our corps members and their future students is dependent on us being able to field a summer training team who is best positioned to have a strong impact in these roles and can step into roles with limited training given strong experience and expertise.  While we have 248 amazing seasonal staff members who have already accepted their offers, we NEED more incredibly talented full-time staff members to join us.We are opening up a second opportunity for YOU to apply to join the team.  You now have until 9 am EST on Monday, May 18th to apply for Learning Community Chair, DEI Facilitator, and Leadership Coach.  If you have not clicked on these links or considered it yet, please do so today!

·        The interest survey --> raise your hand to join us!

·        The summer staffing overview

·        A little more about the schedule

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Reminder that the People Development Intake Process can be used to request time w/ a people consultant.  May be useful as teams are in the midst of planning and working with the hard news from the staff forum top of mind.

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Keep this development close out memo handy for important dates as we approach end of the fiscal year. https://teachforamerica.app.box.com/s/ggdulesqud4eyao56yxn00pbqlc3epwe

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Tegan will begin sharing daily ED digests via email to help synthesize key actions and information via various channels for ELT members. If you would like to include a +1 so they can help you act and manage as appropriate, please let me know if you haven't already.

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FW  HTML Proof - Meeting the Challenges of This Moment

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Lessons On Strong Communication from Dr. Anthony Fauci 

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Lessons On Strong Communication from Dr. Anthony Fauci 

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Anthony Fauci on racial disparities: Fauci was asked about the data on racial disparities in COVID deaths; here was his 2 min answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6PxVs5Bl3k

He's been saying stuff like this for 30 years, but it got some attention this week. It's a great illustration of not short handing things with jargon but to bring people along to what we mean by “exacerbating existing inequity,” and to make each piece of data about both the moment and something bigger.

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Keep Up to Date on Marketing & Communication

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Keep Up to Date on Marketing & Communication

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Join #mct_open on slack for MarComms updates

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Covid-19 Guidance on TFAHomeroom

Covid-19 Hub (Network Facing) - highlights impact stories, resources, and virtual events we are sharing out

Covid-19 Resources on Teach For All Partner Learning Portal (may require registration)

Covid-19 Wellness Resources from Dr. Richard Shadick (TFA’s Ntl Mental Health Consultant)

Direct to Community Giving - funding opportunities elevated by CMs and alumni to support students and communities in light of COVID-19

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Practical Advice for Leading Through Crisis

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Practical Advice for Leading Through Crisis

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Just an FYI and potentially some helpful articles/podcasts you may want to check out related to crisis management and leadership.

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Inspiring Story of Our ENC Alums & CMs Helping Their Communities 

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Inspiring Story of Our ENC Alums & CMs Helping Their Communities 

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Check out this story published on Teach For America’s national blog. It features Eastern North Carolina  leaders, both alumni and corps members from Edgecombe County doing whatever it takes to make sure student and family needs are met. The quote in the article from Stephen Ucheomumu (ENC, ’18) says it all: “’It was really cool seeing kids coming out and just being so happy to see us. These are the moments that have me deeply reflecting on what I am really here to do"

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ED & HOD ACTION REQ'D || FY20 & FY21 Fundraising Risk Assessment Exercise 

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ED & HOD ACTION REQ'D || FY20 & FY21 Fundraising Risk Assessment Exercise 

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EDs and HODs should thoroughly read this two-page document in order to accurately: (1) Make updates to their FY20 pipeline, prioritizing all $10k+ opportunities using the outlined guidelines and (2) Create or update your FY21 pipeline using the outlined guidelines. Reach out to Renee/Chavon for help completing this exercise.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rFYEPopMfT60sltD57h4ub8o3kZrpIlTUkAWoOjbdiA/edit

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Internal Research Showing Impact of COVID-19 on Students 

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Internal Research Showing Impact of COVID-19 on Students 

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The OWLS team compiled a brief summary of the research showing the impact of COVID-19 on students.

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Don't forget to stay up-to-date on our collective progress with our weekly updated PTG Dashboard with a new tab that features $25k+ opportunities still in your pipeline.

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FY20 End of Year Regional Fundraising - Guiding Principles

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FY20 End of Year Regional Fundraising - Guiding Principles

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Check out this organizational guidance  on how to approach fundraising as we close out FY20 in the midst of a pandemic. The keys are to keep donor relationships front and center, prioritize closing on existing commitments and to remember that our work and mission are still important - if not moreso - in this moment and time.

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Working Remote - COVID 19 Principles from Team BOSS

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Working Remote - COVID 19 Principles from Team BOSS

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As we all continue to navigate and lead in these uncertain times, we wanted to share the principles Team BOSS (the new ED cohort) has put forth.  These deeply resonate with us and our hope is that they can be helpful as you orient in this moment.

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Managing Work, Culture, and Uncertainty 

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Managing Work, Culture, and Uncertainty 

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Almost everyone’s work has been impacted by changes to capacity and our evolving short/mid-term priorities. Join HA to discuss:

• Practical ideas to help you think about how to prioritize individual and team work that is critical/essential
• Review scenarios and tools you can bring into your work and conversations
• How to nurture team culture during this wild time

This program will be offered twice, Thurs April 16th 1 ET/10 PT and Tues April 21st (3 ET/12 PT). Register at the link below.

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On 4/8 all ELT members received their team's GPTW Pulse data.  As you get ready to review your data and take actions with your team, just a reminder to consult the guidance linked below.  If you have questions or want a thought-partner on how to orient to and use your data, please reach out to Quanna,

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HOD ACTION ITEM || Scrub Your FY20 Pipeline of Risk ASAP

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HOD ACTION ITEM || Scrub Your FY20 Pipeline of Risk ASAP

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Now that Annual Planning has been paused, don't let your Weighted Pipeline health fall to the wayside. Your forecasted land is even more important now given the economic uncertainty across the nation. To combat that uncertainty internally, scrub your pipeline of any newly known or realized risk to ensure your weighted pipeline is your most up-to-date thinking on your forecasted land. Organizationally, we need to assess risk as soon as possible so reducing probabilities or moving folks to Missed Opportunities as soon as you're aware of a timing concern is more important than ever. Need advice on tricky situations? Reach out to Renee/Chavon, your Development Partner + Coach duo.

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In light of the coronavirus public health crisis we're all facing and its ripple effects, we are compiling and creating useful resources for fundraisers during this challenging time. This bank of resources will be updated ongoing. If you have resources or examples to share, please email @devosupport or the #dev Slack channel

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Training Call: Fundraising During Times of Crisis

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Training Call: Fundraising During Times of Crisis

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Join your development colleagues this Friday, 3/27 at 3:00 ET for a training on fundraising during times of crisis. The training will include critical mindset building, recommended strategies and tactics, and learnings from past fundraising work in times of crisis including Greater New Orleans' work after Hurricane Katrina. Sign up for the 75 minute training and optional 45 minute coaching session here.

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Maryland Senate Passes Historic Blueprint for MD 

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Maryland Senate Passes Historic Blueprint for MD 

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Participant Messaging / Event Cancellation Messaging

New guidance includes:

Effective Monday, March 16th, all travel funded by Teach For America is suspended until the end of the fiscal year (May 31, 2020).

Effective Monday, March 16th, all Teach For America events of 25 people or more must be converted to virtual formats. This includes events like Induction and Institute. More guidance is coming from the events IRT.

CM comms: School Closure Messaging

AmeriCorps Guidance: “We are still awaiting guidance from CNCS. If a school is closed, regional staff should contact Leah Shalev, their AmeriCorps Partnerships Team portfolio manager, and their RCMD to discuss potential AmeriCorps implications and communications with corps members. If you are experiencing school closures and you haven’t already been in touch with an AmeriCorps partner, please do so as soon as possible.”

Social Media & Content Strategy

The link above outlines the national strategy. On a national level we are being extra cautious about what we share on social. We have pretty much stopped our normal schedule of content, will only post something already scheduled if it makes sense and doesn't come across as "tone deaf" (case by case) and we are focusing on solution based stories around coronavirus that are in our wheelhouse (not trying to be medical experts here since that isn't in our scope of knowledge.)

Alumni Comms Plan

We’ve been conscious of not contributing to the overmarketing of Coronavirus in the last few weeks, and had made the decision not to send out a communication related to Coronavirus to our alumni broadly because TFA wasn’t positioned to contribute any unique value there. As things have rapidly evolved and communities across the country are navigating pandemic responses, including school closures, we believe that TFA is now positioned to uniquely contribute to our alumni, corps member and staff network by acting as a convener, bringing the network together virtually in a valuable way. We are working quickly to create a central digital space for the TFA network to easily connect, share resources, and surface challenges that they, their communities, students, etc are navigating so that collaboration and problem solving can occur.

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Don't miss this guide and collection of resources for supporting students right now.

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See Josh Griggs note with more details here.

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ED ACTION ITEM || Cancel Your Flight to Providence for May Retreat

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ED ACTION ITEM || Cancel Your Flight to Providence for May Retreat

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Given travel restrictions, you should cancel your flight to Providence for our May 19-20 retreat. We're going to postpone our retreat until the Fall and considering moving a portion of it to virtual so please continue to hold the time on your calendars for now.

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Need a quick resource to support you in planning/designing upcoming virtual spaces for your staff members or participants? Check out this 11 minute video.

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ED ACTION REQ'D BY 3/6 || Book Travel for Spring Retreat in Providence 

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ED ACTION REQ'D BY 3/6 || Book Travel for Spring Retreat in Providence 

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The Team Impact ED Spring retreat will be May 19-20 in Providence, RHI. Please have your travel booked and complete the participant survey linked in the logistics memo before close of business on March 6. Reach out to Denetria Thomas with questions.

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Connecticut's Education Landscape Report 

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Connecticut's Education Landscape Report 

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See attached “Landscape Report” below for a summary of k-12 public education in Connecticut. Over the fall, Nate worked with a small team out of Columbia University to research changes in the education landscape over the past decade. It was a highly valuable exercise for the team as part of the strategic planning process. The report details major k-12 issues such as: demographic change, student achievement, school choice, integration efforts, school funding, and broader economic trends.

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Connecticut Education Landscape Report (Final) (External)

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As we move through the FY21 planning season, we seek to share strong examples of strategic planning resources. Here are two strong, but different examples from CPT and Jacksonville:
1). CPT's FY21 Planning Overview
2). Jacksonville's FY21 Planning Overview linked below

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Charlotte Piedmont-Triad's Spring Plan for Program 

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Charlotte Piedmont-Triad's Spring Plan for Program 

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CPT stepped back on their MYS results, identified areas for improvement and crafted an extremely clear spring plan. Check out their phenom work below!

Here is our analysis of the data, here is our program team’s reflections on the data, and here is our plan for the path forward.

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Five Baltimore Turnaround Schools that Refuse to Fail

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Five Baltimore Turnaround Schools that Refuse to Fail

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Don''t miss this One Day piece on five Baltimore turnaround schools that refuse to fail...so very inspiring!

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Senator Mary Landrieu shares the love with TFA Greater New Orleans

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Senator Mary Landrieu shares the love with TFA Greater New Orleans

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One to Watch = Maryland Lawmakers File Groundbreaking Legislation called The Blueprint for Maryland Schools

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One to Watch = Maryland Lawmakers File Groundbreaking Legislation called The Blueprint for Maryland Schools

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There is a well organized effort and campaign happening in the state of Maryland right now, led by many of our alums, including ED of Strong Schools for Maryland, Joe Francaviglia and MD State Senate President, Bill Ferguson. You can read more about this historic legislation here and here.

There's been a ton of activity via social media related to this effort. Sharing one inspiring tweet from TFA Alum and State Delegate, Jared Solomon regarding the power of student voice.

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Trauma Responsive Act In Baltimore is Signed by the Mayor

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Trauma Responsive Act In Baltimore is Signed by the Mayor

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TFA Alum and Baltimore City Council Member, Zeke Cohen spearheaded an effort to pass an act that enables Baltimore to better recognize and address childhood trauma. See Wendy Kopp's tweet regarding this below...

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Miami-Dade's Process & Resources for Contextualizing our 10 year Goal

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Miami-Dade's Process & Resources for Contextualizing our 10 year Goal

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1. The first thing we did was a bunch of research. We used the guidance from the national team here and here. And then pulled all relevant data into this sheet: TFA Miami-Dade Goal Worksheet.

2. From there, we identified key choice/decision points and sought to get staff input. We engaged staff on 5 key questions with options through this doc and had people share perspective in person and via this form.

3. Then we engaged staff in a conversation around the results of that form aggregated here. Sam also had conversations with several foundations we’re connected to and some of our board members.

4. Then, Sam made the final decisions and we shared some explanation of how we’re thinking about this through our near-final proposal.

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Congrats to Miami-Dade Alum for Winning MCPS' Rookie Teacher of the Year

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Congrats to Miami-Dade Alum for Winning MCPS' Rookie Teacher of the Year

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Kalyn Lee (Miami-Dade '17) won MCPS' Rookie Teacher of the Year

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Miami-Dade's 2025 Strategic Plan Example 

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Miami-Dade's 2025 Strategic Plan Example 

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Sharing Miami-Dade's 2025 Strategic Plan. This is what Sam has socialized with the regional team, regional board and now pressure testing with local foundations.

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TFA MD 2025 Strat Planning Recap 01.21.2020

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In the spirit of learning, check out Team Impact's MYS Results to identify peer regions to potentially collaborate and learn from!

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ACTION REQ'D TO PREP FOR MARCH BUDGET REVIEW MEETINGS

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ACTION REQ'D TO PREP FOR MARCH BUDGET REVIEW MEETINGS

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In order to make your FY21 Budget Review meeting (taking place Mar 9-19) as high impact and helpful to you as possible, we are offering 2 paths to utilize this time. Please see guidance and info in our FY21 Budgeting Timeline doc and make note of key actions and deadlines for letting us know which path you are choosing and ensuring prep is sent at least 24 hours in advance of your meeting.

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Get Ready for the GPTW Pulse Survey - March 2-13

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Get Ready for the GPTW Pulse Survey - March 2-13

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The Spring GPTW Pulse Survey will run March 2-13. HA and the Strategic Direction Working Groups are collaborating to explore new breakthrough measures and staff feedback strategies for FY21. With that in mind, this pulse is the final staff culture measure of the current strategic plan. Check out the FAQ linked below and prepare your team to complete the survey!

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Development Training on Adaptiv and Office Connect

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Development Training on Adaptiv and Office Connect

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The technology for how we'll be submitting budgets this year for Annual Planning is new. Therefore, the Finance Team is offering a live training to regional development staff on using the Adaptive sheet and Office Connect file for development planning. The training will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 25 from 3 - 4 PM EST. The training will be recorded.

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Fundraising as a part of Annual Planning: Details on Requirements and Where To Find Resources

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Fundraising as a part of Annual Planning: Details on Requirements and Where To Find Resources

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As part of Annual Planning, regions are required to submit four critical pieces of fundraising deliverables in addition to payroll and non-payroll budgets: (1) Your FY20 Locked Forecast (your final land for this year), (2) Your FY21 Goal (including stream goals), (3) Your FY21 Fundraising Plan (including your priorities and strategies to achieve that goal), and (4) Your FY21 Pipeline (all the opportunities you're counting on) that will enable you to achieve that goal. Resources are available on  the Strategic Planning section of the Development Hub. And, most importantly Chavon and Renee are here to help you navigate through and make this process as seamless possible. See schedulers for office hours and an all HOD training.

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Shout outs to the following regions for outcomes on MYS.
MYS Celebrations:

South Carolina: 11 point increase on CSI (@39)

Twin Cities: 24 point increase on CSI (@49)

Jacksonville: 14 points on 2CM CALI (@77) and 13 points on 2CM NPS (@-4)

Charlotte Piedmont Triad: increases across CSI, 2CM CALI and NPS, with 24 point increase on 2CM NPS (@-17)

Metro Atlanta: Increase of 8 points on 2CM NPS, just shy of the BT (@28)

Connecticut: 11 point increase on 2CM CALI (@55)

Orlando: Continues to exceed the CSI BT (@58) as well as 2CM NPS BT (@38—increase of 39 points)

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As part of our programmatic supports this year, we are getting input from program leaders throughout the year so that we are able to understand the effectiveness of the services we offer, surface/assess/adjust to real time needs, and prepare for FY 21.  We would appreciate if all program leaders could please set aside 15-20 minutes to take this Pulse Survey.   Our goal is to hear from 100% of regions.

The survey window will be open until Feb. 26th.  If it is not feasible for you to complete the survey in this timeframe, please reach out to Allison.

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HA Network Learning Opportunities - Talent Planning, Headcount Planning, and Leading Through Change

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HA Network Learning Opportunities - Talent Planning, Headcount Planning, and Leading Through Change

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If you’re looking  for network learning opportunities specific to annual/headcount planning or leading change on your teams, please check out the virtual learning & development hub (link below).  The Talent Planning in Times of Change experience will introduce you to effective talent planning practices your team can use to help ensure that you have and maintain the right people, in the right seats on your team, doing the right work.  The Annual Planning in a Change Year experience will set you up to understand and execute all the technical components of annual headcount planning for your team.  The Leading Through Change series is a suite of experiences (both live and asynchronous) to empower you to be a change leader for yourself and others.

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OPTIONAL ACTION REQ'D || Join a Team Impact Exclusive Curiosity Conversation 

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OPTIONAL ACTION REQ'D || Join a Team Impact Exclusive Curiosity Conversation 

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Attending a Curiosity Conversation will allow you to learn more about how to effectively lead through change at TFA based on what internal study participants said their lived experience at our org has been like!  This conversation will also give you a chance to hear what people want most in their managers at TFA, where we are living up to that, and where we may be falling short.  Session will be a chance for you to hear more and to share your reactions with Karen Hanssen and Katherine Martin (from HA's Imaginarium) to further inform their work.

They are offering two sessions that are Team Impact exclusive (March 5 at 12pm and March 6 at 10am EST)- this experience is geared towards EDs, functional heads, COS/STOs or anyone who is curious in this type of learning! Please sign up for your preferred date at the link below.  (Note: Session content is the same at each one so only need to choose one date.)    If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Katherine.Martin@teachforamerica.org or Karen.Hanssen@teachforamerica.org.

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FY21 Annual Planning & Budgeting Resources

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FY21 Annual Planning & Budgeting Resources

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Adaptive Knowledge Management resources now available on the Annual Planning hub.

We're collecting regional FY21 Budgeting examples and resources in this Team Impact box folder so make sure to comb through and add your docs you want to share!

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July 17      Josh
July 20      Troy
August 2   LaKeisha
August 5   Nate

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July 15       Nate 11 YOS
August 1    LaKeisha 8 YOS
August 8 Crystal 15 YOS

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Congratulations to Jacksonville Alum & Corps Member Educators of the Year! 

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Congratulations to Jacksonville Alum & Corps Member Educators of the Year! 

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2010 alum, Kate Fulginiti was named Assistant Principal of the Year for Duval County Public Schools (DCPS)! We also had 9 winners of teacher of the year for their schools (8 alums and 1 corps member). Of the 9, three made it to the top 15 for DCPS teacher of the year, and Michael Ham (2017 alum) is currently top 5.

TFA has produced a Duval County Top 5 Teacher of the Year for 4 of the past 5 years...WOW!!!

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Latest iteration of 6 questions & how they connect to 10 year goal 

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Latest iteration of 6 questions & how they connect to 10 year goal 

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Sharing this link to slides that are our latest articulation of TFA's 6 strategic clarity questions and how our 10 year goal is helpful in preparing/evolving our answers to questions 4-6.

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Jan 13 National Council Call re: Foster Public Will Priority 

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Jan 13 National Council Call re: Foster Public Will Priority 

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EDs, if you missed the live conversation, don't miss the recording so you can hear Josh Anderson share an update on our Foster Public Will priority and hear questions and feedback from our national council members.

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Next Proactive Public Affairs  Home Team Call = March 13 

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Next Proactive Public Affairs  Home Team Call = March 13 

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TFA Washington's ED, Tony Byrd will be joining us for our next home team call March 13 to share more about their Alumni Advocacy strategy. We'll share agenda with additional prep ahead of the call, but for now check out their TFA WA Advocacy Bulletin

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Annual & Budget Planning Guidance & Resources via Team Impact's COS Think Tank 

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Annual & Budget Planning Guidance & Resources via Team Impact's COS Think Tank 

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We should have greater clarity as to TFA's FY21 annual planning and budgeting process and timeline by Jan 17. At the end of the day, it’s the ED’s decision how much time you and your team are investing in annual/strategic planning and budget prep right now, given the high likelihood for change. Some regions are pushing pause until greater guidance, others are ensuring baseline plans are in place and a few are moving forward with detailed plans.

Regardless of your approach, We wanted to pass along a box folder that houses the deck, recording, chat log and regional strat and annual planning resources from our December COS Think Tank.

Our next COS Think Tank call will be January 27.

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Nate Snow (ED) and his team have been working to strengthen their regional perspective/knowledge on a few core pillars for strategic planning: 1) updating their fact base for how education in Connecticut has evolved over the past 10 years and 2) what else is on the mind of TFA alumni in Connecticut.

Here are the slides to the alumni summary

Here is the link to the folder with all materials

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Alum Bill Ferguson (Baltimore '05) stepped into one of three most powerful positions in the state of Maryland, as MD State Senate President. Click the link to read more about him via the Washington Post.

Alum and former Miami ED Maxeme Tuchman's (Miami '04) startup was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best inventions of 2019.

Should you have other alumni stories of impact we should be celebrating and sharing across Team Impact, reach out to Tegan!

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ED ACTION REQ'D BY Jan 31 || Share your Proactive Public Affairs Q3 Commitment

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ED ACTION REQ'D BY Jan 31 || Share your Proactive Public Affairs Q3 Commitment

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Coming out of our Jan 10 home team call (see deck), we are asking every ED to share their proactive public affairs Q3 commitment via this google doc and if you weren't able to be on the call, please share your reflections and feedback on our learning agenda thus far in the same doc (scroll down).

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Monthly Thursday Think Tanks for Development Team Members

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Monthly Thursday Think Tanks for Development Team Members

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Every second Tuesday of the month all development team members are encouraged to attend Team Impacts' Monthly Thursday Think Tanks where HODs and Development Team Members are able to build community, thought partner, share ideas and problem-solve together. So far, we've had leaders from Jacksonville, Miami-Dade, and Connecticut lead. Reach out to Chavon Carroll for scheduler invites or to volunteer for an upcoming call as a presenter.

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In the spirit of collective learning and celebration, we're going to start publishing a quarterly progress and learning update. Check out the incredible things happening across our team from Q2! Our Q3 highlights will be published in March so if you have feedback or ideas to strengthen this, reach out to Tegan.

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DEVELOPMENT: Progress To Goal Update & Focus on Commitments.

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DEVELOPMENT: Progress To Goal Update & Focus on Commitments.

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Whether you prefer our Team Impact PTG Google Doc or the appealing imagery of PowerBI Report Suite, your team's data is updated daily and is at your fingertips. In order to focus on cash collection and timing in the final quarter, prioritize securing as many commitments as possible before the quarter ends on 3/1. Need support in big upcoming pitches, events, strategies, etc.? Reach out to Renee/Chavon.

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Leading Through Change Learning Experiences

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Leading Through Change Learning Experiences

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Check out this page to sign up for network learning experiences on leading through change. There are three different sessions you can take advantage of - the Intro session which is geared towards all staff and ones that are specific to the roles of managers/team leaders and COS/STOs.

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The People Development & Impact team (HA) and Adult Learning (OWLS) are partnering together on a few fun pop-up Learning Experiences centered on people practices. See sign up info below!

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FINAL Learning Playground Pop-Up Labs (1)

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Program Partners and the OWLS Adult Learning team want to invite you to join us in trying a new structure for spreading relevant resources and tools and collectively working together to improve the Participant Journey across all of our regions---a Participant Journey Design Workshop. Our first PJ moment will be: Alumni Induction (making the transition from CM to alumni).

What it is: At any given time, so many regions are planning for the same/similar major upcoming Participant Journey (PJ)  moments. We know we have regions with really strong approaches that center in the Principles of Adult Learning and our PJ recommendations.  We want to do two things:

1. Broadly share excellent plans from regional leaders for an upcoming moment that is ‘annotated’ by members of the Adult Learning team, the CLE team, Program Partners, and others, to highlight various choice points, connections to the PAL, Alumni anchor moments, and our PJ recommendations for regional leaders to learn from, adapt, and use in their own contexts.

2. Create real-time space for program leaders to come together in a ‘Participant Journey Design Workshop” to develop and refine their your own plans

Audience: Any Program Leader that designs or executes alumni moments.

Timeline:

‘Annotated’ Regional Alumni Induction plans will be available to all in early February.

The Adult Learning Team, alongside Program Partners, members of the Collective Learning and Engagement team, and others, will host the Participant Journey Design Workshop (via zoom) on February 20th from 1:30-3:00 EST,  open to everyone (invitation and more information forthcoming).

More information here—please feel free to pass along this opportunity to members of your team!

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As you know, Mid-Year Survey results will be posted on Thursday, January 16th. In advance of that, I wanted to share this deck of helpful resources.  The deck includes sample reflection templates, info on navigating PowerBI, and sample reflection questions for you and your teams as you analyze results at the cohort and region-wide levels and plan strategy for the coming months. Feel free to share these resources with members of your teams as it feels relevant.

Additionally, Allison will have open office hours will be held on 1/24 from 12:30-2:00.  Office hours are an open invitation to:

Learn about what resources you may want to use to engage in analysis

Talk through or determine your approach (for analysis, setting your team up, setting strategy, sharing the data and insights, etc)

Get support or partnership in making sense of results, surfacing insights, making connections

Talk about whatever else is on your mind

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Another SHOUT OUT to the Rhody team! They have received 1.5M in commitments to support their growth as part of the RI state take-over of public schools.  Private donors have stepped up to the plate in response to the Governor’s call to action. This support will fuel the impact additional corps members will have in 2020 and beyond!  

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Another SHOUT OUT to the Rhody team! They have received 1.5M in commitments to support their growth as part of the RI state take-over of public schools.  Private donors have stepped up to the plate in response to the Governor’s call to action. This support will fuel the impact additional corps members will have in 2020 and beyond!  

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SHOUTIN' OUT the ENC team on the grand opening of their new Rocky Mount office. They celebrated with a grand opening on December 10th!  BIG congratulations on this new space and continued impact in Rocky Mount and the Twin Counties. 

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SHOUTIN' OUT the ENC team on the grand opening of their new Rocky Mount office. They celebrated with a grand opening on December 10th!  BIG congratulations on this new space and continued impact in Rocky Mount and the Twin Counties. 

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BIG shout out to the RI and CT development teams for hosting some truly amazing events over the past two days!  I had the pleasure and honor to attend RI's engagements with former national board chair, Steve Mandel, local donors and state officials including Gov.  Gina Raimando.  And last night, I attended the annual CT benefit dinner in Stamford, CT.  Nearly 270 people were in attendance and over 650K (and counting!) was raised in support of TFA's work across CT.  INCREDIBLE!!!!  Celebrate yourselves!!

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BIG shout out to the RI and CT development teams for hosting some truly amazing events over the past two days!  I had the pleasure and honor to attend RI's engagements with former national board chair, Steve Mandel, local donors and state officials including Gov.  Gina Raimando.  And last night, I attended the annual CT benefit dinner in Stamford, CT.  Nearly 270 people were in attendance and over 650K (and counting!) was raised in support of TFA's work across CT.  INCREDIBLE!!!!  Celebrate yourselves!!

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HUGE shout out to Miami-Dade team for a record breaking Give Miami Day!!  They made Teach For America Miami-Dade history by surpassing their goal and raising $210,105 from 311 donors, including 100% participation from their staff, Board of Directors, and Associate Board. AND these dollars will be matched by our National Board and The Miami Foundation!! Join me in celebrating this epic one day fundraising campaign!!!

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HUGE shout out to Miami-Dade team for a record breaking Give Miami Day!!  They made Teach For America Miami-Dade history by surpassing their goal and raising $210,105 from 311 donors, including 100% participation from their staff, Board of Directors, and Associate Board. AND these dollars will be matched by our National Board and The Miami Foundation!! Join me in celebrating this epic one day fundraising campaign!!!

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Inspired by this year's Sue Lehmann Awards ceremony and want to begin planning for the 2020 application? Check out the Leadership Development Hub for the preliminary 2020 info and what you can do to begin cultivating competitive applications for your regions.

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Don't Miss Out: Alumni Data Collection for FY20

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Don't Miss Out: Alumni Data Collection for FY20

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In FY20 we will expand alumni address and employment collection to cover all alumni and test new survey strategies through opt-in pilots. This is in response to overwhelming demand from regional teams for accurate alumni demographic/employment data, and emerging business needs from our new strategic direction. As a result, we will not require the collection of alumni NPS and CALI this year.

Learn more: Check out the high-level overview and then dig into the more detailed plans.

Next steps: Please share this update with your team, and complete this survey.

Questions: Reach out to us at #askowls_data or email Zack Harlow-Nash.

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Regional Support and Engagement (RSE) Newsletter

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Regional Support and Engagement (RSE) Newsletter

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Take a look at this quarter's RSE newsletter, which has tons of helpful resources for program leaders!

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We want to capture and share the incredible work our alumni are doing across Team Impact and the country. Please use this guide and/or reach out to Allison McCarthy and/or Tegan to contribute to our alumni story bank so that we can begin to spread these stories across our system.

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Miami-Dade Landscape Analysis & Strategic Planning Resources 

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Miami-Dade Landscape Analysis & Strategic Planning Resources 

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Passing along some great examples and resources from Miami-Dade's strategic planning process. Feel free to reach out directly to Sam or Ryan Kyrola (COS) with questions.

1). Overview & 5 Year History
2). Southern Florida Education Landscape
3). Landscape Interview Analysis
4). Long-term Strat Planning Process

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ACTION REQ'D BY 12/20:    Dec 13 Home Team Call 

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ACTION REQ'D BY 12/20:    Dec 13 Home Team Call 

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Deck and recording are available here. By 12/20, please take 15 mins to:
1). Take this 5 min survey to share feedback on the call so we can keep improving our learning experience and engagements.

2). Based on where you are in having clarity of your region’s public affairs agenda for the rest of FY20, please share headlines of your plans/approach, your next steps and support needed via this google doc.

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Make sure you and your team are leveraging the bank of matriculation and confirmation resources now available. Should you have questions or feedback please reach out to Victor Wakefield.

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REVIEW Our FY21 Prelim Budgeting Timeline

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REVIEW Our FY21 Prelim Budgeting Timeline

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FY21 Budgeting will incorporate aspects of the new Org wide strategic direction. As the org works together to flesh out what this direction means in practice, we are still determining several pieces of information you will need to budget effectively (such as future year corps size projections, potential econ model changes, etc). As such, this is the timeline we know as of right now.

Please review the FY21 Budgeting Team Impact Timeline linked below. We will continue to add and refine this document with more details as they become available. Contact Laura O'Donnell with any questions!

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Complete the form below to register for a learning opportunity based on the Change Builders program to deepen your understanding of how humans go through change, and reflect on how change impacts you. In early January, we'll also be offering sessions specifically for Team Leaders/Managers and COS/STOs on leading others through change.

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Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

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Create a new survey on your own or with others at the same time. Choose from a variety of survey types and analyze results in Google Forms. Free from Google.

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Relevant to our public affairs learning as a home team and new strategic direction, wanted to share this thought provoking webinar on the six conditions for systems change. Love this definition of systems change: Systems change is about shifting the conditions that hold a problem in place.