Collective Impact: The Great Cities Model

 Adult Education Great Cities Summit Barrera Team 

Barbara Garner, Project Co-Manager

Cristine Smith, Project Co-Manager Margaret Doughty, Coalition-Building Manager

Kimberly Scott, Coalition Builder

Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education

Cheryl Keenan, Director, Adult Education and Literacy

Christopher Coro, Leader, Innovation and Improvement & Best Practices and Dissemination Team

National Institute for Literacy 

Daniel Miller, Acting Director

Anticipated Outcomes for City Teams

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What drives higher literacy?

IsolatedImpact

CollectiveImpact

• Understand that social problems – and their solutions – arise from interaction of many organizations within larger system

• Cross-sector alignment with government, nonprofit, philanthropic and corporate sectors as partners

• Organizations actively coordinating their action and sharing lessons learned

• All working toward the same goal and measuring the same things

What drives higher literacy?

What drives higher literacy?

Next Steps: Building on Lessons Learned

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Common Agenda

Shared Measurement

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Continuous Communication

Backbone Organizations

What drives higher literacy?

Houston Team

Sheri Suarez Foreman Houston Center for LiteracyPresident and CEO

Dr. David Joost Houston Community CollegeDirector, Adult Education

Dr. Laveria Hutcheson University of HoustonProfessor

Tina Angelo Houston Independent School DistrictLiteracy Specialist

Roosevelt Weeks Houston Public LibraryDeputy Director

Houston Initiatives

Literacy Awareness Campaign

Advocacy

City-Wide Capacity Building

Develop Statewide Database

Statewide AmeriCorp Literacy Program

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Adult & Workforce Education

Miami Dade College Adult Education

Miami-Dade Family Learning Partnership

Miami-Dade Public Library System

Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust

Miami TeamMiami Team

Miami Miami InitiativesInitiatives

Convened forum for broad, multi-agency partnership

Developed shared vision of adult education relevance

Created strategic plan for district & college programs

Linked to regional economic & workforce plans

Designed process to sustain long-term development

City University of New York, Language and Literacy Programs

Literacy Assistance Center

Neighborhood Family Services Coalition

New York City Department of Education, Office of Adult and Continuing Education

New York City Department of Youth and Community Development

New York City New York City TeamTeam

GED Campaign to Finish

Common Core Workgroup

New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy

New York City New York City InitiativesInitiatives

Chicago TeamChicago Team

Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition

City Colleges of Chicago

Illinois Community College Board

Illinois Department of Human Services

Chicago Workforce Investment Council

Chicago InitiativesChicago Initiatives

Joint Effort to Increase Literacy Services in Underserved Areas

City Colleges of Chicago working with Illinois Community College Board to produce open source Lesson Plans for Bridge Programs

Development of Referral Plan from Literacy Coalition Providers to City Colleges Bridges

Los Angeles TeamLos Angeles Team

Centro Latino for Literacy

Jewish Vocational Services

Los Angeles Public Library

Los Angeles Unified School District ESL/CBET & Citizenship Program Division of Adult & Career Education

Los Angeles InitiativesLos Angeles Initiatives

Deliver high quality reading training to reform literacy instruction for adult learners

Ensure literacy is a high priority in Los Angeles

Reform the system for accessing and appropriating literacy resources

PRESENT DAY: State fiscal crisis cut funding from $750M to $300M. State Budget looking to shift from K-12 to community colleges

What’s next?

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