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United Way of Central Alabama/Bold Goals Education 

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United Way of Central Alabama/Bold Goals Education 

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In Birmingham, we have three major objectives through Together for Students:

1. Develop a Blueprint for Student Centered Learning that all stakeholders can endorse and use to guide their work toward improving elementary literacy, including an advocacy agenda.

2. Develop or obtain a user-friendly software platform for district-wide asset mapping and resource distribution.

3. Develop a clear plan for implementing a new student data software solution for the district, to include individualized learning plans and extensive training for school staff and community partners.

We are pursuing these objectives through the Birmingham City Schools Action Network, which has already been working on elementary literacy with a broad range of partners.

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MNPS is Together for Students and we will...
*Deepen the level of implementation at the current (and new) Community Achieves schools with a focus on integration of community school standards. We will equip schools and members of the community to develop school-level implementation plans.

* Expand and sustain the number of community schools by creating a well-defined tiered approach for the entire school district using community school standards and partnering with CIS.

*Develop a State Community School Coalition

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DC Public Schools Community School Model 

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DC Public Schools Community School Model 

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DCPS and our partners at Communities in Schools of the Nation’s Capital, will convene city and community leaders to co-create a DCPS Community School model. We believe that a shared DCPS Community School Model will help grow and sustain the strong foundation DC has built for community schools and will also enable schools and partners to more fully integrate community schools strategies within our school communities.  There are three key objectives to achieve within the planning period:

I. Co-create a shared DCPS Community School Framework

Common vision and clear expectations of how school leaders, Community School Managers (CSM), DCPS central office, and Lead Agencies work together

Defined outcomes and metrics of success for all DCPS Community School sites, focusing on attendance, health/mental health supports, and student/family engagement

A scope of technical assistance & support to drive continuous improvement

II. Launch the DCPS Community School Framework in SY18-19

3 current Communities in Schools (CIS) sites in August 2018

School planning will include PD from Turnaround for Children, a new approach/protocol for community-driven data reviews, and integration of Community School strategies into the existing Comprehensive School plans

III. Increase city-wide collaboration

Convene city-wide planning committee to advise on the DCPS Framework and to begin creating a collective long-term vision and sustainability plan

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Welcome and Congratulations - Jose' Munoz

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Welcome and Congratulations - Jose' Munoz

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"Together for Students Milwaukee" is a partnership between our local Community Schools initiative, the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership, which is led by United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County, Milwaukee Public Schools and the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association and our local Strive initiative - Milwaukee Succeeds

We have three focus areas:

Resource Alignment - Developing strategies for real-time alignment of community resources and partnerships to self-identified priorities of schools and communities

Equity Agenda - Develop a platform to advocate for policies and practices that address inequities and eliminate disparities among students and their families.

Student-Centered Data - Support the development and dissemination of comprehensive student-level data systems that can be shared across sectors.

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Implementation Funding Update- Steven McCullough

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Implementation Funding Update- Steven McCullough

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Reporting - Steven McCullough

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Building a Continuum of Competency-Based Learning in Chicago

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Building a Continuum of Competency-Based Learning in Chicago

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In Chicago we aim to expand competency-based learning by building a continuum of personalized K-12 education experiences. Our plan will build on an exciting pilot already under way in a handful of Chicago Public high schools that seeks to reward students for their mastery of core academic and social/emotional competencies, both inside and outside of traditional classroom walls, rather than simply by how many credit hours they accumulate.

The Together for Students lead partners in Chicago – consisting of Thrive (local affiliate of Strive); CIS and Chicago Public Schools – will engage community-based organizations, as well as parents, students and school leaders in a collective process to (a) enhance the social emotional competencies assessed in pilot high schools, (b) develop a complementary set of social/emotional learning competencies for students in grades K-8 aligned with those used in high school, and (c) ensure alignment of CBO partners working with those schools.

Working closely with CPS, Thrive and CIS of Chicago will develop a plan to pilot the teaching of these competencies in the feeder schools of one or more of the CBL high schools.

Our vision is for this K-12 competency continuum to be a model for how we teach children in the 21st Century global economy.

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United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley / Lehigh Valley Reads Highlights

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United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley / Lehigh Valley Reads Highlights

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Lehigh Valley Reads aims to boost grade-level reading through a student centered and culturally relevant learning community by:

· Creating a plan for a regional data platform with school level funcionality

· Strategically aligning the work and communication of our five coalitions

· Building capacity and effectively integrating youth and family voice into each regional coalition's work

· Intentionally supporting educators through a micro-credentialing system that enhances and supports new literacy instruction knowledge, skills and practices.

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Vancouver Public Schools -- Vancouver, Washington

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Vancouver Public Schools -- Vancouver, Washington

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Together with cross-sector community partners the Together for Students six month planning grant will enable us to work together to create an actionable three-year prenatal to third grade (P-3) blueprint for learning. This blueprint will become our road map for aligning, mobilizing, and implementing academic and non-academic strategies to improve leading indicators for on-time graduation including children entering kindergarten demonstrating expected developmental skills and all children enrolled in pk-3rd grade attending 90% or more days of instruction. Community schools strategies--with an intentional focus on the P-3 parent-child development continuum--will be designed around five elementary school neighborhoods.

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Fresno Cradle to Career and Washington Unified School District are focusing on a plan for predominantly children of color in a high poverty neighborhood in an elementary, middle and high school as a pilot for the network.  The goals are to develop referral sources and processes in the community for students and families as support, implement individualized learning plans that include these supports as needed, add a case manager/social worker to assist teachers, students, and families, and identify a referral data system  for referrals.