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What is Community Commitment to Education?

What is Community Commitment to Education?. Community Commitment to Education is a partnership among Greater Lafayette Commerce, United Way of Greater Lafayette, and our three local community school corporations designed to motivate our community to engage in our students’ academic success.

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What is Community Commitment to Education?

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  1. What is Community Commitment to Education? Community Commitment to Education is a partnership among Greater Lafayette Commerce, United Way of Greater Lafayette, and our three local community school corporations designed to motivate our community to engage in our students’ academic success.

  2. Collective Impact

  3. Phase 1-Read to Succeed Read to Succeed Focus Read to Succeed places volunteers in local schools to focus on improving early grade reading skills • 3rd grade is a focal point because: Until 3rd grade, learn to read; after 3rd grade, read to learn • “Academic success, as defined by high school graduation, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by knowing someone's reading skill at the end of grade 3 (Slavin et al., 1994).”

  4. Read to Succeed Expansion

  5. Read to Succeed Schools Tippecanoe School Lafayette School Corporation CorporationBurnett Creek Elementary Edgelea Elementary Dayton Elementary Glen Acres Elementary Klondike Elementary Miami ElementaryMayflower Mill Elementary Miller ElementaryWea Ridge Elementary Murdock Elementary Woodland Elementary Vinton ElementaryWyandotte Elementary Amelia Earhart ElementaryWest Lafayette Community School CorporationCumberland Elementary

  6. Volunteer Description What is expected of a volunteer? Volunteer one hour per week Attend training Regular attendance Follow instruction of the teacher What are the benefits? Contributing to the betterment of students in our community Developing assets for youth Creating an educated workforce for our community The word of the day is “VOLUNTEER”

  7. Teacher Feedback “It feels wonderful as a teacher to see the community caring so much.”

  8. Teacher Feedback “I think it’s great for people outside of the school setting to learn what is happening in the schools. A lot has changed since they were in kindergarten.”

  9. Volunteer feedback "I love volunteering with Mrs. Huffman’s class!  They are a joy and they are the best part of my week!“ “It is so rewarding to give the students encouragement. I get the impression, the way they soak it up, they really need someone to look them in the eye and smile and encourage them.” “Parent involvement is very important and that’s not here all the time. So there needs to be somebody else in that child’s life that needs to push a little and encourage.”

  10. Volunteer feedback “Read to Succeed has been great. I love that it gets me out of my normal environment and helps me to be even more aware of the community.”

  11. LSC Results The Next Step Our goal is to have children leave third grade reading at grade level or better. The IRead test is Indiana’s assessment for third grade reading. This chart show the percentage gain in IRead scores for schools with Read to Succeed vs. those without: Additionally, a study at Glen Acres Elementary showed that 70% of students with Read to Succeed volunteers improved their attendance and 66% were referred to the office fewer times.

  12. Read to Succeed - Impact on Stakeholders The Next Step • Student • Teacher • Parent • Volunteer

  13. Community Commitment to Education is about Alignment The Next Step • No one can do this alone • Working together-collaborating, cooperating, coordinating • Having a clear, simple, widely accepted goal-3rd graders reading • Rallying point for the community-the flag on the hill • To succeed, everyone has to join the fun!

  14. Call To Action Make a difference one page at a time! Will you consider becoming a Read to Succeed Volunteer? www.readtosucceedgreaterlafayette.org Thank you!

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