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Strategic Plan PresentationPrepared for the Fort Worth ISD Board of Education

October 24, 2017

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Read Fort Worth

Privately-funded collective impact organization formed in 2016 to align cross-sector efforts in

support of the Fort Worth ISD goal that100 percent of third-graders will read

on grade level by 2025.

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Achieving 100x25

• Healthy, safe environments• Quality early learning experiences• Excellent classroom experience• Community supports in key areas

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Supporting Partners

BNSF Foundation

City of Fort Worth

Fort Worth ISD

North Texas Community Foundation

United Way of Tarrant County

Amon G. Carter Foundation

Rainwater Charitable Foundation

Sid W. Richardson Foundation

HEB Grocery

Kleinheinz Family Foundation

Miles Foundation

Morris Foundation

R4 Foundation

Ryan Foundation

G.W. Rawl Foundation

Walton Family Foundation

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How Does Fort Worth ISD’s Education Pipeline Compare?

80%

67%

33% 32% 34% 38%

10%

82%

60%

49%

25%

70% 71%

45% 45% 47% 51%

20%

89%

54%

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72%

59%

44% 45% 46% 50%

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90%

54%

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Comparing Educational Pipelines: Fort Worth ISD vs. Tarrant County vs. State of Texas

Establish starting line Build a solid early foundation Equip for the future Support to and through college

Kinder ready2

3rd Reading3 4th Math3 8th Science3 Algebra I3 College ready (class of 2015)4

High school grad5

Est. 4 yr olds eligible for

Pre-K enrolled1

College enrollment (class of 2013)6

College 1st yr persistence

(class of 2012)6

College 6-yr completion (class of 2008)6

State of TexasTarrant CountyFort Worth ISD

Unavailable at County and State

levels

(1) Pre-K enrollment: Texas Public Education Resource, 2012-16. (2) Kindergarten readiness: The percent of students deemed Kindergarten Ready based on data released by Texas Public Education Information Resource (TPEIR) for 2016. (3) STAAR indicators: Achievement levels represent percentage of students achieving Postsecondary Readiness standard (3rd thru Algebra I) on 2017 STAAR exams. (4) College ready: Percent of students who graduated from high school, took the SAT or ACT, and scored at least a 24 on the ACT or 1110 on the SAT (reading and math) per the TEA: (Texas Academic Performance Report). (5) Graduation rate: Texas Education Agency: – 2014-15 Accountability System – 4 year Federal Graduation Rate; the percent of the 9th grade cohort from 2010 – 2011 school year that graduated four years later in 2014. (6) Fall 2015 National Student Clearinghouse data

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How Is FWISD Tracking Toward 100x25?

47%

59%

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92%97% 100%

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79%

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Fort Worth ISD: Comparison of Scenarios Against 100x25

100x25 will need the most significant growth to occur early on.

FWISD’s current literacy targets drive toward great progress, but more growth will be needed.

If meaningful action is not taken, only 41% of 3rd graders will be reading on grade level by 2025.

Source: Texas Education Agency: 2012-16 STAAR; FWISDNote: 2017 data is from the publicly-available STAAR Aggregator for all May 2017 test takers—33% for Fort Worth ISD. This data differs from the district’s PEIMS STAAR number (34%) screened for the students enrolled in October 2016 and for whom Fort Worth ISD is accountable.

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Immediate Systemic Interventions Are Neededto Reach 100x25 3rd Graders

2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25

Infant 1 y.o. 2 y.o. 3 y.o. 4 y.o. 5 y.o. 6 y.o. 7 y.o. 8 y.o.

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Home

Kinder-garten, Home

1st Grade, Home

2nd Grade, Home

3rd Grade, Home

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Family resources & home visits Attendance drives & mobile health clinics

Quality childcare and early education Out-of-school programs with a literacy focus

Hospital briefings

Half-day Pre-K: 3 year olds

Pre-K awareness campaigns

Multi-dimensional school entry assessment

Robust progress monitoring & RTI process

Full-day Pre-K: 4 year olds

Blended FWISD-private center partnerships to meet enrollment needs

Developmental screenings using common tool and approach Reading resources & on-campus volunteers

Quality instruction; targeted PD; Mentoring program

Critical Systemic Interventions to Reach 100x25

Community awareness of literacy progress/challenges and active advocacy for policies and additional supports

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Fort Worth ISD Is Committed to theCollective Impact Effort

• FWISD is the principal entity executing educational strategies and tactics needed to achieve the 100x25 literacy goal.

• The district is committed to a robust, ongoing relationship with the Read Fort Worth collective impact effort and is a fully-integrated partner.

Role

Involvement

Current Areas of Partnership

• FWISD will participate on the Read Fort Worth Executive Council and Collaborative Action Networks to align work with the district’s PK-3 strategies

• The district will work with partners to identify resource needs, supports and other avenues for community efforts to help drive early childhood literacy

• The district is partnering with CANs in many areas, including classroom library campaign, volunteer reading mentoring and early childhood partnerships.

• The district is fully engaged in the pilot Leadership Academies program and is leveraging academic achievement data and strategic compensation to incent highly-effective teachers to teach at target high-need campuses.

• Leadership Academies include numerous wrap-around supports around which the district and partners are committed to collaboration.

Fort Worth ISD Relationship With Read Fort Worth

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Read Fort Worth Serves As Backbone to Drive Community Action toward 100x25 Goal

Vision All children are successful in school

Mission

To align partners, strategies and resources to significantly improve early childhood literacy so that 100% of Fort Worth third-graders are reading on grade level by 2025.

Outcomes All children are readyfor kindergarten

All children are proficient readers by the end of third grade

Key Indicators% of children assessed by FWISD as ready for school at kindergarten

% of 3rd graders scoringat final recommended level on STAAR Reading exam

Read Fort Worth: Vision, Mission, and Accountability Structure

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Strategies Proven to Drive Change are Priority

The Fort Worth community can achieve 100x25 if certain conditions are realized

Incent highly effective teachers, campus leaders to serve high needs campuses; support teacher quality initiativesImplement strategies to increaseattendance, reduce mobility; support campuses with materials, volunteers, technology, etc.

Children are born into safe, healthy environments and developmentally on track

Children have quality early learning experiences that ready them for school

Children have an excellent classroom experiences in early grades

Elementary schools have key campus supports, including out-of-school time and books

Reduce and mitigates the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences, expand use of early developmental screenings

Increase access to quality early learning/Pre-K, blended funding programs to serve 3-yr-olds

High-level strategies support and align to these conditions

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CANs Are Planning and Implementing Action Steps

Read Fort Worth Collaborative Action Networks: Activities and Next Steps

Next StepsCurrent Activities

School Readiness

CAN

Health/Child Well-Being

CAN

Expanded Learning CAN

Reading Resources CAN

• Aligning proposed 2017-18 interventions with FWISD

• Secure funding for CLASS initiative• Community convenings to share EDI project

results, develop action plans

• Planning group convened July 19• Identified Cavile Place (76105) for pilot project

Initiated “first to know” conversations with stakeholders

• Finalizing Summer Learning network charter• Action planning for summer 2018• Awaiting data on FWISD summer slide trend

• Expanding Classroom Library Campaign• Partnering with FWISD to establish protocols

for how teachers will use books• Aligning with FWISD on priority elem schools

• Launch CLASS initiative• Implement RBA platform to track quality EC

population, performance measures• Monthly/semi-monthly work groups to advance

action plan

• Planning team toured Stop Six/Cavile Place Oct. 18

• Plan community listening sessions• Implement and monitor Cavile interventions

• Convene subcommittees on organizational design, best practices, training and measurement

• Build action plan for systems change children

• Developing plan to scale up support• Community outreach to connect supporters with

campus needs• Accelerating communication strategy

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Read Fort Worth: Data Dashboard

• www.readfortworth.org/dashboard• Updated with May 2017 Third-

Grade Reading STARR results• View snapshots of the district,

pyramids or campuses• Compare data over time • Disaggregate data by ethnicity,

economic status, language proficiency and gender

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Read Fort Worth: Roles and Responsibilities

• Track and Analyze Data

• Communicate and Measure Results

• Engage Partners and Community

• Support Collaborative Action Networks

• Advocate for Best Practices

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q Executive Council meets quarterly, CANs provide regular status updates on action plans

q Convene/support action planning sessions for the Child Well-Being, Expanded Learning, and Reading Resources CANs to develop Action Plans

q Finalize alignment on roles and processes with existing CANs.

q Publicly highlight bright spots campus gains, best practices to help drive home community’s support of strong instructional progress while celebrating those responsible for progress

q Begin process to publish annual Fort Worth literacy scorecard by benchmarking data and documenting effective practices (launch targeted for February 2018)

Read Fort Worth: Next Steps

Read Fort Worth: Next Steps for the Backbone Organization

90 Days 1 Year

q Hire Analytics Associate and position as a consultant to FWISD, CANs focused on campus-level data analysis and best practices

q Support all CANs with data analysis to activate their action plans

q Convene/support CANs for follow-on semi-annual Action Planning sessions to discuss data and identify bright spot practices to be scaled

q Deepen relationship with FWISD, support school leadership with community advocacy as needed to advocate for best practices and catalyze policy changes

q Identify and communicate CAN goals to community

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Read Fort Worth: Backbone Staff

• Kristin Sullivan, Executive Director kristin.sullivan@readfortworth.org

• Dr. Olga Hickman, Director of Programs and Partnerships olga.hickman@readfortworth.org

• Yezmin Thomas, Director of Communications and Marketing yezmin.thomas@readfortworth.org

www.ReadFortWorth.org

@ReadFortWorth