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Overview of Commit!
August 31, 2011
(DRAFT)
The value of a collaborative involving all of the regional stakeholders focused on education is that, by working together, good people can do great things. They understand that by planning with each other, and not on each other, they can move meaningfully forward, recognizing that its more important to grow collective credibility across the region as a transformative force than being focused on taking individual credit for each of their efforts.
Other Collaboratives Nationally
Overview of Other National Collaboratives

Los Angeles (www.lacompact.org) - Comprised of 18 institutions (ed providers, non-prots, business organizations) with three major goals: All students graduate from high school. All students have access to and are prepared for success in college. All students have access to pathways to sustainable jobs and careers.
Boston (www.bostonpic.org) - founded in 1982 as U.S.s rst K-12/business/higher ed collaborative. Still operates today; has been amended three times as strategic plan altered to reect both successes and new challenges. Last amendment in 2000 has goals of: Meet the high standards challenge. Increase opportunities for college and career success. Recruit and prepare the next generation of teachers and principals.
Cincinnati (www.strivecincinnati.org) - involves more than 300 organizations focused on cradle to career in urban Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. Goals are as follows: Every child will be prepared for school. Every student will be supported, succeed academically and enroll in college. Every student will graduate and enter a career.
Primary Goals and Sample Progress Measurements of Cincinnati Strive (54 in Total)
Every child will be prepared for school Kindergarten Readiness Scores
Measured by?
Every student will be supported, succeed academically, and enroll in college
Measured by?
Reading and math scores at specic grades, graduation rates, ACT scores, college enrollment rates
Every student will graduate and enter a career
Measured by?
College readiness and retention rates, college graduation rates
Progress to Date During Cincinnati Strive

Pct. of children ready for Kindergarten
Up 10 points in three years
4th grade math and 8th grade reading scores
Up 15 points in three years
High school graduation rates
73% to 83% over three years
Commit! vs. Dallas Achieves
Dallas Achieves Overview

1. Dallas Achieves was developed in 2006-07 and approved by DISD board in April 2007. The Commission met through September 2009 to support and advise. 2. Dallas Achieves represented the creation of a strategic plan focused almost solely on DISD with input from diverse group of 60+ stakeholders acting primarily as individuals (vs. committing their organizations and/or speaking for them). 3. Many Commission recommendations from Dallas Achieves were implemented:
Implemented principal evaluation/incentive plan; reduced reporting layers; added common planning periods; developed innovative high school programs; developed data warehouse and data dashboards as well as school scorecards Use of alternative certication to recruit teachers in critical areas (including TFA)
4. There was notable achievement in subsequent academic outcomes: Number of Exemplary schools tripled; college readiness scores increased more than half; four year graduation rates grew from 63% in 2008 to 68% in 2010. The Brookings Institute determined in 2009 that DISD lead Texas and ranked 2nd nationally among all urban districts in narrowing the achievement gap.
Dallas Achieves Overview (contd)

1. However, DISD didnt improve as fast as it could have under the plan if it had been fully implemented. 2. Commission didnt have ability to drive adaptation of all recommendations or ensure internal staff capabilities to drive plan implementation; shortfalls included:
More high quality and innovative school options, including in-district charters True principal empowerment with increased decision making authority (including elimination of forced placement) and greater control of school budgets Pre-K education not initially taken to scale; improved parental outreach needed
3. It did not initially benet from the involvement of transformational institutions that have been seen in other cities like New Orleans (i.e. TFA did not come to Dallas until Fall 2009, charters in 2007 had a very small presence, etc.). 4. It did not involve higher ed institutions who could focus/communicate on understanding the readiness of students coming out of DISD nor on their retention/ ultimate success 5. It did not require the mutual accountability of educational parties outside of DISD to each other for results in assisting DISD in its goals.
Commit!
1. Commit! is a collaboration of numerous parties at all levels acting in their institutional capacities and being mutually accountable to each other for their contribution to the collaboration's overall goals. 2. The strategic plan will be much broader than that envisioned by Dallas Achieves. It will likely be Pre-K to college graduation (vs. just K-12). It will involve multiple education providers (higher ed, other districts, etc.) in the greater Dallas area and not just DISD. It will involve numerous non-prots focused on various educational, strategic pillars, ranging from parental education/engagement, after school and summer programs, college access, human capital/leadership training and many others. 3. Accountability/implementation will be driven by Commit!'s evaluation and communication of results. As results become more transparent, funders will fund those who have the most demonstrated impact, and parents will move their children to educational institutions who achieve. Commit! should be viewed as an impartial communicator of results, good or bad.
Why a Regional Strategic Plan, or Compact?

1. Highlights that success/failure is not sole function of teachers and school districts
and brings more attention/funding to collaboration among all partners as well as resources which can assist/support primary education providers.
2. Encourages sharing of both data and best practices as well as a sense that we are all
in this together while strategically showing a path for Dallas students from cradle to career.
3. Major funders are most intrigued by an overarching plan with transparent results
where they can see the goal line and progress along the way (vs. continuing to eld a series of one-off requests without a full sense of each requests impact on the bigger picture).
4. Public awareness of vast efforts ongoing in education which receive insufcient

attention and potential ability to mobilize and education army of volunteers.
Additional funding from non-foundation community (corporations, citizen/taxpayers, etc) Additional board members and volunteers to help non-prots in their attempt to scale
5. Provides for a periodic review/adjustment to strategic plan; whats working and whats
not? Where are the holes and how do we address them?
6. Opportunity for substantial involvement/support from mayor with funders/corporations
Commit!
Each child is our responsibility....and our future.
Mission Statement of Commit!
Commit! is a collaborative of Dallas area stakeholders, each highly committed to the transformative power of education, who are willing to work together and be mutually accountable to each other for their respective roles in strategically ensuring that all students graduate from Dallas-area high schools and succeed in either college or the work force.
Current Challenges Facing Dallas Area Public Education

Too many children in the Dallas area are not graduating from high school and are not being adequately prepared with the skills to succeed in a 21st century economy. While there are numerous pockets of under-publicized excellence, the overall perception of the quality of Dallas-area public schools is not positive and is a hindrance to the regions future growth and vitality. In todays environment, the resources provided to our schools are less than in recent years and yet our schools are expected to produce greater results with more students reecting different socioeconomic challenges. Many parents are not sufciently aware of and engaged in their childrens educational options nor are they sufciently empowered to exercise them. There is not an overall regional strategic plan in place that can be executed by the various public school districts, higher ed institutions and numerous non-prots focused on improving educational outcomes.
Core Beliefs of Commit!

All children are capable of achieving at a high level given the right resources and support, regardless of their background. Major improvements in the education of all of our youth are not only possible but are critical to the future of the Dallas area. Without a high-quality public education system, the regions ability to generate economic health for all as well as reduce the tragic challenges of poverty for many is severely hindered. Improvements to educational outcomes are not the sole responsibility of teachers and their respective school districts. The power of Commit! is to bring signicant additional resources to educators in areas such as parental education and engagement, mentoring, and after school and summer programs. The effectiveness of our collective public education system is directly correlated to the quality of its human capital at every level. Increasing and supporting human capital talent focused on education in the region will have a material positive impact on educational outcomes. Partners of Commit! realize that as individual institutions, our efforts will be tactical and our results will be limited. However, by strategically working together towards common goals, we can confront and overcome the numerous obstacles to providing every child with a high-quality education. Creation of a regional strategic plan in which each of us own some of the responsibility for educational outcomes will increase our collective effectiveness while providing the ability to attract signicantly more support from community stakeholders and philanthropists focused on the transformative power of education.
Core Goals of Commit!

The goals of Commit! are simple, powerful, transparent and measurable. They are as follows: Prepare every child to enter and succeed in school. Ensure that every student graduates from high school with the skills and support to access and subsequently succeed in college or the work force. Materially reduce or eliminate the gap in academic preparedness and resulting outcomes between students of varying demographics such as race, income, neighborhood or gender.
Strategic Goals and Suggested Pillars to Achieve Them

Overall Strategic Goals:
1. Prepare every student to enter and succeed in school 2. Ensure that every student graduates from high school with the skills and support to access and subsequently succeed in college or the work force 3. Materially reduce or eliminate the gap in academic preparedness and resulting outcomes between students of varying demographics such as race, income, neighborhood or gender
Parental Engagement and Education
Pre-K Education
After School and Summer Programs
Tutoring and Mentoring
College Access and Persistence
Health and Nutrition
Human Capital
School Options
Examples of Benets of Collaboration

Pre-K provider collaborates with K-12 institutions it feeds students to in effort to understand its outcomes relative to other Kindergarten students coming from other Pre-K providers or no Pre-K at all. Data helps in funding efforts, addressing weaknesses in curriculum or staff, etc. The same could be true for summer slide programs focused on eliminating reading and math losses for disadvantaged students. College Access programs like EIF or ASP work collaboratively with non-prots focused on mentoring (as well as corporations who have adopted schools) to train their volunteers in college application process, nancial aid form completion, etc. to leverage these additional resources and provide even better outcomes for students. Higher ed providers work proactively with K-12 institutions to focus specically on areas of remediation (i.e. what concepts are students from those high schools consistently falling short on when they arrive as college freshmen). Data and research show that too many non-prot resources are focused on high school mentoring and there is not enough focus on middle school years in certain strategic neighborhoods. Non-prots collaborate and redeploy resources/volunteers.
The Obligation of Partners to Commit!

Potential partners of Commit! are being asked today to signify their agreement with
the proposed Mission, Core Beliefs and Core Goals outlined earlier, and to publicly support the wisdom and importance of creating a regional strategic plan for education that seeks to achieve those Goals. this strategic plan as asked by Commit!s steering committee.
Potential partners also agree that they will provide meaningful input to the creation of Once Commit!s strategic plan is completed, potential partners agree that they will
review it with their governing boards. Each partner deciding that it is supportive of both the Plans overall interim and long term goals, as well as the proposed methodology to strategically achieve them, will then be asked to seek the full commitment of their respective institution to report and be held accountable to other partners and community stakeholders for their respective contribution to Commit!s overall mission. message of its Mission, Core Beliefs and Core Goals in our community while seeking to gain support for the effort and recruit additional partners to join in the work.
Partners will additionally agree to serve as ambassadors for Commit!, sharing the
Potential Partners
Initial Partners
Dallas ISD Board of Trustees Dallas ISD Superintendent Dallas Regional Chamber Dallas Mayors Ofce Dallas Citizens Council The Real Estate Council Bank of America J.P. Morgan Chase
Potential Future Partners Contacted to Date

Alliance - AFT AT&T Avance Bank of Texas Baylor Health Care System Big Brothers and Big Sisters Big Thought Boone Family Foundation Boys & Girls Club Camp Fire USA Center for Non Prot Management Cienda Partners Citicorp City of Dallas CitySquare Communities Foundation of Texas Dallas After School Network Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce Dallas Concilio Dallas County Community Colleges

Dallas Social Venture Partners Education is Freedom Ernst & Young Fidelity Investments Fluor Corporation Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber Haynes & Boone Hunton & Williams IBM Corporation Jones Day Junior Achievement of Dallas KIPP (Knowledge is Power) Meadows Foundation Mi Escuelita Preschool Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr Museum of Nature & Science North Dallas Chamber of Commerce Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce ONCOR

Parkland Foundation Paul Quinn College School Archive Project Southern Methodist University Southwest Ofce Systems Teach For America The Teaching Trust TEDxSMU Texas High School Project Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Foundation Trinity River Audubon Center United Way of Dallas University of Texas at Arlington Uplift Education Vickery Meadow Learning Center Volunteer Center of North Texas YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Likely Timing
September 2011 Continued Input from Stakeholders, Creation of Strategic Committee
Fourth Quarter 2011 thru First Quarter 2012 Creation of Strategic Plan and Review/Commitment of Various Partners Spinoff/Creation of Separate 501c(3) to House Commit!

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Overview of Commit!

August 31, 2011

Other Collaboratives Nationally

Overview of Other National Collaboratives

Every student will be supported, succeed academically, and enroll in college

Every student will graduate and enter a career

College readiness and retention rates, college graduation rates

Progress to Date During Cincinnati Strive

Up 10 points in three years

4th grade math and 8th grade reading scores

Up 15 points in three years

High school graduation rates

73% to 83% over three years

Commit! vs. Dallas Achieves

Dallas Achieves Overview

Dallas Achieves Overview (contd)

Why a Regional Strategic Plan, or Compact?

4. Public awareness of vast efforts ongoing in education which receive insufcient

6. Opportunity for substantial involvement/support from mayor with funders/corporations

Mission Statement of Commit!

Current Challenges Facing Dallas Area Public Education

Core Beliefs of Commit!

Core Goals of Commit!

Strategic Goals and Suggested Pillars to Achieve Them

Parental Engagement and Education

After School and Summer Programs

Tutoring and Mentoring

College Access and Persistence

Health and Nutrition

Examples of Benets of Collaboration

The Obligation of Partners to Commit!

Potential Future Partners Contacted to Date

Potential Future Partners Contacted to Date

Potential Future Partners Contacted to Date

September 2011 Continued Input from Stakeholders, Creation of Strategic Committee

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