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Brown County Cradle to Career Community Summit

September 16, 2013

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Brown County Cradle to Career- Background

Brown County LIFE Study- 2011 Findings• Misalignment between student preparation- jobs• Need effective large-scale effort to prepare kids for school• Risk behavior among youth is growing• Test performance and graduation trends among low income students needs attention

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Background continued…..

Brown County 20-20 Vision Summit - 2012

• Education represents a cradle to career approach that utilizes school, community, business, and parent engagement to achieve graduation rates that exceed the mid-point of state average

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CRADLE TO CAREER SUMMIT

Your leadership and input in this summit will ensure that all sectors are involved in creating an initiative that will serve the residents of Brown County for generations to come.

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Definition of Collective Impact

“The commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.”

-- John Kania & Mark Kramer, FSG Social Impact Advisors, Stanford Social Innovation ReviewWinter 2010

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From Individual Action to Collective Impact

• A group working towards the same outcome, • Looking at student level data, • To continuously improve practices over time

• Individual practitioners working on specific issues• Collecting qualitative and quantitative data• To demonstrate impact with individual students

• A group working on the same issue, • Sharing program level data• To identify best practices and align efforts

Collective Impact

Coordinated Impact

Individual Impact

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Collaboration

Convene around Programs/Initiatives

Prove

Addition to What You Do

Advocate for Ideas

Collective Impact

Work Together to Move Outcomes

Improve

Is What You Do

Advocate for What Works

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Social Return on Investment (SROI)

Ultimate Impact

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SHARED COMMUNITY VISION

A broad set of cross-sector community partners come together in an accountable way to implement a cradle to career vision for education and communicate that vision effectively.

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Evidence Based Decision MakingThe integration of professional expertise and data to make decisions about how to prioritize a community’s efforts to improve student outcomes

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What defines Collaborative Action?

• Focus on a specific community/school level objective• Prioritize local data to identify what works and verify with

national research and local expertise/experience• Identify shared action using data that network can take to

move the needle on a community/school outcome (i.e. – policy, practice, training)

• Develop a plan to implement identified action:– Interim measures to track success– Identification of new/existing resources – Capacity building and training requirements

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Composition of an “Ideal” Network

• Several and diverse partners: Partners represent different sectors, serve different demographics, or differ in overall size– Including community members and organizations

• Committed partners: All partners demonstrate commitment to network

• Sufficient scope to impact community-level outcome: Collectively, the network has capacity to improve the overall outcome

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Investment & SustainabilityThere is broad community ownership for building cradle to career civic infrastructure, and resources are committed to sustain the work of the partnership to improve student outcomes