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Overview of Commit! (DRAFT)

August 31, 2011


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The value of a collaborative involving all of the

regional stakeholders focused on education is that,

by working together, good people can do greatthings.

They understand that by planning with eachother, 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.


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Other Collaboratives Nationally


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Overview of Other National Collaboratives

LosAngeles(www.lacompact.org)-Comprisedof18institutions(edproviders,non-profits,businessorganizations)withthreemajorgoals:Allstudentsgraduatefromhighschool.

Allstudentshaveaccesstoandarepreparedforsuccessincollege.Allstudentshaveaccesstopathwaystosustainablejobsandcareers.

Boston(www.bostonpic.org)-foundedin1982asU.S.sfirstK-12/business/higheredcollaborative. Stilloperatestoday;hasbeenamendedthreetimesasstrategicplanalteredtoreflectbothsuccessesand

newchallenges. Lastamendmentin2000hasgoalsof:Meetthehighstandardschallenge.

Increaseopportunitiesforcollegeandcareersuccess.Recruitandpreparethenextgenerationofteachersandprincipals.

Cincinnati(www.strivecincinnati.org) -involvesmorethan300organizationsfocusedoncradletocareerinurbanCincinnatiandnorthernKentucky. Goalsareasfollows:

Everychildwillbepreparedforschool.Everystudentwillbesupported,succeedacademicallyandenrollincollege.

Everystudentwillgraduateandenteracareer.
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Primary Goals and Sample Progress

Measurements of Cincinnati Strive (54 in Total)

Everychildwillbepreparedforschool

Everystudentwillbesupported,succeed

academically,andenroll incollege

Everystudentwillgraduateandenteracareer

KindergartenReadinessScores

Readingandmathscoresatspecificgrades,graduationrates,ACTscores,college

enrollmentrates

Collegereadinessandretentionrates,college

graduationrates

Measuredby?

Measuredby?

Measuredby?


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Progress to Date During Cincinnati Strive

Pct.ofchildrenreadyforKindergarten

4thgrademathand8thgradereadingscores

Highschoolgraduationrates

Up10pointsinthreeyears

Up15pointsinthreeyears

73%to83%overthreeyears


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Commit! vs. Dallas Achieves


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Dallas Achieves Overview

1. Dallas Achieves was developedin2006-07 and approved by DISD board in April2007. The Commission met through September2009 to support and advise.

2. Dallas Achieves represented the creation of a strategic plan focused almostsolelyonDISD with input from diverse group of 60+ stakeholders actingprimarilyasindividuals (vs. committing their organizations and/or speaking for them).

3. Many Commission recommendations from Dallas Achieves wereimplemented: 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 certification to recruit teachers in critical areas (including TFA)

4. There was notableachievementinsubsequentacademicoutcomes: 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 leadTexasandranked2ndnationallyamongallurbandistricts in narrowing the achievement gap.


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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 todrive adaptation of all recommendations orensureinternalstaffcapabilitiesto 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 didnotinitiallybenefitfrom theinvolvementoftransformationalinstitutionsthat 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 onunderstanding 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 ofDISD to each other for results in assisting DISD in its goals.


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Commit!

1. Commit! is a collaboration of numerous parties at all levels acting in theirinstitutionalcapacities and being mutuallyaccountabletoeachother for theircontribution to the collaboration's overall goals.

2. The strategicplanwillbemuchbroader than that envisioned by Dallas Achieves. It will likely be Pre-Ktocollegegraduation (vs. just K-12). It will involve multiple educationproviders (higher ed, other districts, etc.) in

the greater Dallas area and not just DISD.

It will involve numerousnon-profits focused on various educational, strategicpillars, 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 andcommunicationofresults. As results become more transparent, funders will fundthose who have the most demonstrated impact, and parents will move their children

to educational institutions who achieve. Commit! should be viewed as an impartialcommunicator of results, good or bad.


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Why a Regional Strategic Plan, or Compact?

1. Highlights that success/failure isnot sole function of teachersand school districtsand brings more attention/funding to collaboration among all partners as well as resources

which can assist/support primary education providers.

2. Encourages sharingofbothdataandbestpracticesaswellasasensethatweareallin this together while strategically showing a path for Dallas students from cradle tocareer.

3. Major funders are most intrigued by an overarching plan with transparent resultswhere they can see the goal line and progress along the way (vs. continuing to field 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 insufficientattention 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-profits in their attempt to scale

5. Provides for a periodicreview/adjustmenttostrategicplan; whats working and whatsnot? Where are the holes and how do we address them?

6. Opportunity for substantialinvolvement/support

from

mayor with funders/corporations


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Commit!

Eachchildisourresponsibility....andourfuture.


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Mission Statement of Commit!

Commit! is a collaborative of Dallas area stakeholders,

each highlycommitted to the transformative power ofeducation, who are willingtoworktogether and be

mutuallyaccountabletoeachother for their respectiveroles in strategically ensuring that allstudentsgraduate

from Dallas-area high schools and succeed in either

college or the work force.


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Current Challenges Facing

Dallas Area Public Education

ToomanychildrenintheDallasareaarenotgraduating from high school and are notbeingadequatelypreparedwiththeskillstosucceed in a 21st century economy.

While there are numerouspocketsofunder-publicizedexcellence, the overallperceptionofthequalityofDallas-areapublicschoolsisnotpositiveandisahindrance to the regions future growth and vitality.

In todays environment, theresourcesprovidedtoourschoolsarelessthaninrecentyearsandyetourschoolsareexpectedtoproducegreaterresults with more studentsreflecting different socioeconomic challenges.

Many parents arenotsufficientlyawareofandengagedintheirchildrenseducationaloptions nor are they sufficiently empowered to exercise them.

There is notanoverallregionalstrategicplaninplace that can be executed by thevarious public school districts, higher ed institutions and numerous non-profits focused on

improving educational outcomes.


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Core Beliefs of Commit!

Allchildrenarecapableofachievingatahighlevel 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 arecriticaltothefutureoftheDallasarea. Without a high-quality public education system, the regionsabilitytogenerateeconomichealthforall as well as reducethetragicchallengesofpovertyformany isseverely hindered.

Improvements to educational outcomes arenotthesoleresponsibilityofteachers and theirrespective school districts. The power of Commit! is to bringsignificantadditionalresourcestoeducators in areas such as parental education and engagement, mentoring, and after school and

summer programs.

The effectiveness of our collective public education system is directlycorrelatedtothequalityofitshumancapital at every level. Increasing and supporting human capital talent focused oneducation 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 strategicallyworkingtogethertowardscommongoals, we canconfront and overcome the numerous obstacles to providing every child with a high-quality

education. Creation of a regional strategic plan in which eachofusownsomeoftheresponsibilityfor educational outcomes will increase our collective effectiveness while providing the

ability to attractsignificantlymoresupport from community stakeholders and philanthropistsfocused on the transformative power of education.


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Core Goals of Commit!

The goals of Commit! are simple,powerful,transparentandmeasurable. They areas 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.


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Strategic Goals and

Suggested Pillars to Achieve Them

HumanCapital

ParentalEngagement

andEducation

AfterSchoolandSummerPrograms

CollegeAccess

and

Persistence

Pre-KEducation

Tutoringand

Mentoring

HealthandNutrition

OverallStrategicGoals:1.Prepareeverystudenttoenterandsucceedinschool

2.Ensurethateverystudentgraduatesfromhighschoolwiththeskillsandsupporttoaccessandsubsequentlysucceedincollegeortheworkforce

3.Materiallyreduceoreliminatethegapinacademicpreparednessandresultingoutcomesbetweenstudentsofvaryingdemographicssuchasrace,income,neighborhoodorgender

SchoolOptions


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Examples of Benefits 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-profits focused onmentoring (as well as corporations who have adopted schools) to train their volunteers in

college application process, financial 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 specifically 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-profit resources are focused on high school

mentoring and there is not enough focus on middle school years in certain strategic

neighborhoods. Non-profits collaborate and redeploy resources/volunteers.


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The Obligation of Partners to Commit!

Potential partners of Commit! are being asked todaytosignifytheiragreementwiththeproposedMission,CoreBeliefs and CoreGoalsoutlined earlier, and to publiclysupport the wisdom and importance of creatingaregionalstrategicplanforeducationthatseekstoachievethoseGoals.

Potential partners also agree that they will providemeaningfulinput to the creation ofthis strategic plan as asked by Commit!s steering committee.

Once Commit!s strategic plan is completed, potential partners agree that they willreview 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 toreportandbeheldaccountable to otherpartners and community stakeholders fortheirrespectivecontribution to Commit!soverall mission.

Partners will additionally agree to serve as ambassadors for Commit!, sharing themessage 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.


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Potential Partners


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Initial Partners

Dallas ISD Board of Trustees

Dallas ISD Superintendent

Dallas Regional Chamber

Dallas Mayors Office

Dallas Citizens Council

The Real Estate Council

Bank of America

J.P. Morgan Chase


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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 Profit 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


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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


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Parkland Foundation

Paul Quinn College

School Archive Project

Southern Methodist University

Southwest Office 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


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Likely Timing

September2011Continued Input from Stakeholders, Creation of Strategic Committee

FourthQuarter2011thruFirstQuarter2012Creation of Strategic Plan and Review/Commitment of Various Partners

Spinoff/Creation of Separate 501c(3) to House Commit!

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