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Insert Title Here Date & Location. We are part of a national campaign! 142 communities, representing 39 states across the nation , as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with 1,600 local organizations (including over 100 local funders). 2.
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We are part of a national campaign! 142 communities, representing 39 states across the nation, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with 1,600 local organizations (including over 100 local funders) 2
Investment Strategies (Time, Talent, Dollars) Essential Assurances • Quality teaching in every setting • Seamless systems of care, services and family supports, 0-8 • Community Solutions (Readiness, Attendance and Summer Learning) Organize and mobilize the “big tent” grade reading proficiency 3rd Replicate and scale what works Create proof points of success and scale Get and keep a job Delay parenting Graduate high school Milestones How to disrupt intergenerational poverty? • By 2015/2016 • Progress on the strategies • Progress on the community solutions • Progress on student performance • By 2020 • A dozen states or more have increased by at least 100% the number of low-income children reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade • Promising trend line and sustainable momentum 3 9-22-13
Community Solutions • The Readiness Gap: Too many children from low-income families begin school already far behind. • The Attendance Gap: Too many children from low-income families miss too many days of school. • The Summer Slide: Too many children from low-income families lose too much ground over the summer months. 4
Percentage of Children Ages 3–6 With Selected School Readiness Skills, by Poverty Status Source: O'Donnell, Kevin. Parents’ Reports of the School Readiness of Young Children from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2007, Table 2. National Center for Education Statistics. August 2008. www.childtrendsdatabank.org/?q=node/291
Ratio of Age-Appropriate Books Per Child in Middle- and Low-Income Neighborhoods Neuman, Susan B. and David K. Dickinson, ed. Handbook of Early Literacy Research, Volume 2. New York, NY: 2006, p. 31. www.serve.gov/toolkits/book-drive/index.asp
XXX’s Response on School Readiness • XXX • XXX • XXX 7
Chronic Kindergarten Absence Lowers5th Grade Reading Success for Low-Income Students
XXX’s Response on School Attendance • XXX • XXX • XXX 9
XXX’s Response on Summer Learning • XXX • XXX • XXX 11
Grade-Level Reading Communities Network We benefit from being part of theGLR Communities Network which serves as a: for promising ideas, programs and practices that advances the work through peer exchanges, peer learning and peer coaching for delivering technical assistance, pursuing scale and accelerating innovation 16
Network Communities Support Center (NCSC) The NCSC functions as a hub,brokerand accelerator that helps us produce results. 14