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Race to the Top - District Community-School Partnerships

Road Map Project Goal

The Road Map Project goal is to double the number of students in South King County and South Seattle who are

• n track to graduate from college or earn a career

credential by 2020. We are committed to nothing less than closing the unacceptable achievement gaps for low-income students and children of color, and increasing achievement for all students from cradle to college and career.

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Race to the Top Grant Overview

• In 2012, South King County communities came together to

apply for Race to the Top in support of the Road Map Project.

• $40 million grant over four years from U.S. Department of

Education

• Currently in No Cost Extension year
• Focus is personalized learning in service of the Road Map

Project goals

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Race to the Top Grant Overview

7 school districts

• 264 schools
• 86 high-need schools
• More than 147,000 students
• Nearly 11,000 educators
• An MOU was signed by all superintendents, teachers union

presidents and school board presidents as part of the grant application

• Our application had the full support of more than 30 cities,

counties, federal officials, community and national organizations, and businesses

• An Executive Committee oversees the grant

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Race to the Top Projects

Start Strong is our emphasis on Early Learning, preK-3rd grade. STEM Strong addresses the need to strengthen Science, Technology, Engineering and Math skills throughout the region. Stay Strong helps students bridge the connection from high school to post-secondary opportunities and career.

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Foundational Projects support regional collaboration.

Investment Fund for Community-School Partnerships (“Deep Dives”)

Goals:

• Create intensive school and community partnerships to turn around

academic performance in high needs schools

• Raise student achievement by replicating existing models
• Advancing our region’s knowledge on how to effectively
• perationalize intensive student-level interventions, in school and out
• Produce examples, lessons learned, and models

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Deep Dive Investments

• 1. Deep Dive 1 - Kent East Hill

$ 895,529

• 2. Deep Dive 2 - White Center (Highline)

$1,148,966

• 3. Deep Dive 3 Round 1

a.Auburn $ 455,722 b.Renton $ 298,498

• c. Seattle

$ 315,849

• 4. Deep Dive 3 Round 2 – Seattle

$ 727,893

• 5. Deep Dive 3 Round 3

a.Federal Way $ 250,000 b.Vietnamese Friendship Assn. (Seattle) $ 211,000

• c. St. Vincent de Paul (Kent)

$ 250,000 d.Techbridge (Highline) $ 250,000 Total: $4,803,457

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Example Project: Kent East Hill

School Partners: Pine Tree and Millennium Elementary Community Partners: King County Housing Authority, Kent Youth and Family Services, Communities in Schools of Kent Project Elements:

• Family Engagement: Parent Academy for Student Success
• Afterschool tutoring, support, and enrichment at the Birch Creek Housing

site

• Afterschool programming at the two schools
• Summer School with a focus on reading and shared professional

development

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Example project: Vietnamese Friendship Association (Seattle)

School Partner: Seattle World School Serving ELL students Community Partners: Jack Straw Cultural Center and Coyote Central Project Elements: 1. Create additional pathways for gaining credits 2. Academics: tutoring in English, math and science via Saturday School 3. Family Engagement: training and family literacy 4. Enrichment: teaching students 21st century skills, and positive youth outcomes via project based learning 5. Supporting students to take the World Language Test

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Investment Fund Process

• Technical Workgroup created initial criteria
• Round 1 RFP process
• Feedback with community stakeholders
• Additions to round 2 RFP process
• Feedback with community stakeholders
• Round 3 granted
• Additional round granted by Executive Committee with feedback from

community stakeholders

• Learning from previous funding examples
• Design team to lead re-design of investment fund structures

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Lessons Learned & Course-Corrections

• We can't operationalize 'authentic partnerships' if we aren't doing the

job to create the conditions for them to get started

• Must address barriers in systems, beliefs, and equity
• Round 3 redesign:
• CBOs could be lead
• Funding to support small CBOs in concept development
• Technical assistance
• More accessible RFI process, not RFP
• Interviews
• Timeline flexibility

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What do we mean by partnerships?

Vendor Coordinated Collaborative Integrated Authenticity Equity

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Successes

• Birch Creek Summer Splash
• Data sharing between Seattle Public Schools and Seattle Housing

Authority

• Increased mental health, housing supports, case management,

academic and enrichment programs and supports for students in all projects

• Family engagement strategies and focus in the region
• A different level of conversation and engagement from community

partners and school leaders

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Key Learning

• Strong coordination and facilitation of partnership is a pivotal role
• Capacity is needed at all levels including district, school-building, and

community partners

• A strength-based approach is important
• Systems and structures can get in the way: contracting, data sharing,

invoicing

• Inclusion of community voice is key when making decisions on focus
• f partnerships
• An equity lens is important to disrupt the status quo and close
• pportunity and access gaps

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Creating conditions for building trust, relationships, and authenticity

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Barriers that get in the way

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Next Steps

• Authentic Partnership Institute August 3rd & 4th
• Documentation of learning and sharing with regional partners
• Continued alignment with regional work and partners
• Engaging funders in lessons learned and aligning efforts

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Student Success Link – CBO Secure Data Portal What’s Prioritized

Attendance and Behavior:

• Calendar View
• Week View
• Incidents
• Trends

Course History:

• Courses

Program Participation:

• Programs students are involved in

Enrollment History:

• Student’s school enrollment history

Assessments:

• MAP
• Smarter Balanced
• Washington State Assessments

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Student Success Link – CBO Secure Data Portal The Student Success Link Supports the Whole Child

The Puget Sound ESD and its Road Map partners are doing this for three simple yet powerful reasons. Access to secure, high-quality data:

• Enhances student success: Quality data provide a clearer picture of

student attendance, behavior, classwork and other important information to help ensure student success.

• Empowers educators and youth providers: access to quality data to

inform educators and youth providers’ work student learning improves.

• Enables creation of a regional data portal allows for wrap around

services for the whole child.

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Student Success Link – CBO Secure Data Portal How does this help schools and districts?

• Increased support and accountability: student success,

accountability for program providers who work with students. Communication and alignment with missions.

• Family Connections: coordinated and aligned mission with CBOs

helps schools since many of the youth program providers have close relationships with families.

• Streamlined work: lessens workload for CBOs and for Schools

Districts sharing data.

• It’s more secure: Data is not printed or emailed. With the Secure

Data Portal, information is only available to those who have been given secure access.

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Student Success Link – CBO Secure Data Portal Benefit to CBOs = Personalization!

• More targeted services: Communities have the opportunity to

more quickly match students with the right services at the right

• time. Data sharing between schools and community organizations

is the key to making this happen.

• Real-time feedback: CBOs will be able to receive data in real-time

to optimize their work.

• Professional development: A key part of the project is CBO staff

training in how to collect, analyze, use and secure the data.

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