Goal# 4 - Central Texas as a community prepares children to succeed.

Some studies have shown that over 50% of a student’s performance is driven by factors outside of schools.

Students are more successful when communities work together in a supportive effort with their schools, rather than assuming that accountability is just for schools and teachers.

A key conclusion of the Central Texas community deliberations including over 1000 people: Relationships between schools, parents and community entities are critical for success and need to be the center of any change effort, rather than on the margins. We also need more robust measures of parent and community involvement

 

Draft Blueprint Objective:

By 2015, there is a culture of shared accountability for student success in our region:


• Enough community members are aware of and act upon a sense of responsibility for outcomes beyond their neighborhood schools to create a “tipping point” in collective behavior


• The number of established partnerships between public, nonprofit, and for profit institutions has doubled


• Formal and informal communities are connected beyond their natural boundaries of issue or geography

Action Strategy

Outcome Indicators*

Accelerate the education movement to create community accountability for our students’ success in Central Texas: Outreach to recruit significantly higher numbers of community volunteers into schools as mentors, tutors and coaches Advance Deliberative Dialogues action plans; expand the dialogues process to other parts of the Central Texas region Expand outreach to targeted populations through campaigns, messaging and special events (Ex. Para Una Buena Vida; Graduates Are Made. Not Born; Generation TX; Clear Channel Radio Campaign) Launch the Community Groups Engagement Task Force to interactively align goals and objectives of established organizations with the Blueprint

Percent of participation of non-district personnel in District Advisory Committee (DAC) Process Indicators* # Blueprint for Educational Change speeches made and # people in Attendance (cumulative) # visitors per year to the Blueprint website # people that signed up to a specific call to action on the Blueprint website stories per year on the Blueprint in print media and in television and radio broadcasts # districts, businesses, foundations and non-profit organizations participating in Blueprint action strategies and related task forces % increase in community awareness and action around the Blueprint for Educational Change annual survey

*Objectives and Success Indicators are under development by Blueprint partners. They represent objective measures to evaluate and track our progress over time.

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