June 21, 2012 Denver Education Compact
April Review Compact: Role and Purpose As Board members, you each represent a unique segment of the community. You are key to the success of the Compact by bringing the community together around the following strategies: 1. Define objectives, indicators and strategies. 2. Align the work of funders, CBOs, educational institutions and community partners. 3. Elevate best practices and reduce program/service duplication. 4. Ensure the highest return on investment for our kids and our community. 5. Get work done based on who sits on the Board and how we leverage your relationships. 6. Ensure progress and mutual accountability to achieve improved results. 2
Isolated Impact Collective Impact • Funders and implementers • Funders select individual grantees understand that social problems, and that offer the most promising their solutions arise from the solutions. interactions of many organizations • Nonprofits work separately and within a larger system. compete to produce the greatest • Progress depends on working toward independent impact. the same goal and measuring the same things. • Evaluation attempts to isolate a particular organization’s impact. • Large scale impact depends on increasing the cross-sector alignment • Large scale change is assumed to and learning among many depend on scaling a single organizations. organization. • Corporate and government sectors • Corporate and government are essential partners. sectors are often disconnected • Organizations actively coordinate from work of foundations and their actions and share lessons nonprofits. learned. From Hanleybrown et al., Channeling Change, 2012. • Shared accountability on progress and outcomes. 3
Denver Education Compact Executive Committee • Strategic Guidance • Champion, Affirm & Hold the Vision & Direction • Advocate for What Works • Promote and Report Data/Results Operations Team • Comprised of members and delegates of the Executive Committee • Provide recommendations for strategy • Develop and implement integrated, cross-sector plans Operations Team Industry: Provide Metro/UCD: Work Daniels/DSF: Identify Strategy 5: Improve DPS: Develop a incentive packages, to on the alignment of • Provide recommendations for process and strategy and recruit “home quality of teacher rubric to select high include affordable • Drive the implementation and oversight of the network and support teams grown” talent to teacher training housing, mentoring, applicant poo l. quality teachers. become a teacher. programs. training, low cost loans. Functional Teams • Comprised of community members and delegates of the Executive Committee • Provide expertise and support to operations team strategies Data, Research & Marketing/ Community Resources Analysis Communication Outreach 4
School Readiness: Goal & Indicators GOAL 1: By 2020 90% of DPS 3 rd graders are proficient in reading. Baseline Data Indicator * % of kindergarteners reading at or above grade level (EOY)……….……... 57% * % of kids in full day kindergarten (FDK) 95% IN DEVELOPMENT: % of high need kids served in high quality early learning programs………………………………………… % of funding gap met by sustained funding to serve the highest needs……………………………......................... 3, 4, & 5-year olds in high quality early learning programs/services……………………………..………………....… 5 * DPS, February 2012
School Readiness: Potential Compact Strategies Education, CBOs (community based organizations) Strategy 1: Increase % of kids in FDK. Philanthropic, Industry, City, CBOs Strategy 2: Align and increase sustainable public funding streams to serve the highest need 3, 4, & 5- year olds in high quality early learning programs/services. CBOs, City, Education Strategy 3: Increase % of kids in high quality ECE programs (independent, DPP, DPS). City, CBOs, Philanthropic Strategy 4: Work with family, friend, and neighbor network to increase services to the providers. 6
School Readiness: Outcomes By 2013, develop a comprehensive plan to serve high need 1 birth – 3 year olds. • By 2013, 100% of 5 year olds will be in all-day 2 kindergarten. 3 By 2015, 100% of low-income 4 year olds will participate in high quality and affordable programs and/or services. 7
K12: Goal & Indicators GOAL 2: By 2016 DPS graduation rates are 80% or higher with less than a 25% remediation rate. Indicator Baseline Data * % of 5th grade students 49% 51% proficient in reading & math…………... * % of 8 th grade students proficient 52% 37% in reading & math…………………………………………. * % of 10 th grade students proficient in reading 50% 19% & math……………………………………………………………………….... 32% # % of 11 th graders meeting College Board’s ACT recommendations……………… 3% (R/M/E: 21/22/18) 3% @ % 4-year cohort HS graduation rate………………………………………………………….. 56% * DPS, Accountability Research & Evaluation, August 2011 8 # DPS, Accountability Research & Evaluation, 2010 @ DPS, Report of Graduates & Completers, 2010-11
K12: Potential Compact Strategies CBOs, City, Education, Industry, Philanthropic Education, CBOs Strategy 1: Support college readiness work in Student Engagement Initiative for HS: expand concurrent enrollment; establish robust AP prep programs; support college access programming; support AP professional development for teachers and integration of common core standards and ACT readiness. Education, Industry Strategy 2: Support implementation of PWR Diploma. Provide technical assistance and school professional development. Education Strategy 3: Establish community college and district partnership to: certify adjunct faculty on high school campuses to increase concurrent enrollment and increase faculty retention. Education Strategy 4: Develop Denver Research Consortium Model, like the Chicago Research Consortium to conduct consistent and transparent research and analysis of strategic district initiatives. 9
K12: Potential Compact Strategies Education Philanthropic, Industry Strategy 5: Improve quality of teacher & principal applicant pool: create partnership with scholarship organizations to recruit and support Denver participants in residency programs; evaluate opportunity to enhance “package” for new hires; increase the % of applicants of color. Education Strategy 6: Develop university partnerships to create and offer skill development modules in math and writing for college graduates interested in teacher prep programming. Industry, Education, CBOs Strategy 7: Host job fair(s) for DPS graduates, interested in jobs at DPS, for 8 th and 11 th graders college graduates. Industry, Education Strategy 8: Develop industry sponsored/developed programming for DPS and its employees in: coaching/mentoring for teachers, principals, key central office leaders, benefits package for new employees, recognition of employees, district marketing campaign. 10
K12: Outcomes 1 Support and pass the November 2012 DPS Bond & Mill Levy. 2 By 2016 DPS will have an on-time graduation rate of 80% or better. • By 2018 80% of DPS graduates will meet the criteria for 3 postsecondary and workforce readiness. 11
Post Secondary: Goals & Indicators GOAL 3: By 2018 80% of students will select a work or post secondary pathway and complete it in 150% of normal time. Indicator Baseline Data * % of students who participate in dual 66% enrollment……………………………………………….. * DPS, Accountability, Research & Evaluation, June 2012 # % DPS graduates enrolled in college year after 59% graduation…………………………………………………………….. # National Student Clearing House, 2011 @ % remediation rate………………….………………………………. 60% @ Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2010 # % retention/persistence rates 82% (year one to year two)……………………………………………………………. # National Student Clearing House, 2011 # % of high school graduates earning an associate’s, bachelor’s and 12% higher within 6 years…………………………………………………………………………… 12 # National Student Clearing House, 2011
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