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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)

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grade reading

proficiency

Essential Assurances Quality teaching in every

setting

Seamless systems of care, services and family supports, 0-8

Community Solutions (Readiness, Attendance and Summer Learning)

Investment Strategies (Time, Talent, Dollars)

Replicate and scale what works

Create proof points of success and scale

MilestonesBy 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

How to disrupt intergenerational

poverty?

Organize and mobilize the “big tent”

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• 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.

Community Solutions

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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

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XXX’sResponse on School Readiness

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Chronic Kindergarten Absence Lowers5th Grade Reading Success for Low-Income Students

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XXX’sResponse on School Attendance

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XXX’sResponse on Summer Learning

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Grade-Level Reading Communities Network

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We benefit from being part of the GLR Communities Network which serves as a:

Platform

Community of

Practice

Distribution Channel

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

Network Communities Support Center(NCSC)

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The NCSC functions as a hub, broker and accelerator that helps us produce results.

“Hub” by serving as the curator of communities of practice and as the navigator for the distribution channel

“Broker” by offering communities access to tools, experts and information needed to develop the capacities (leadership, resources and skills) to execute their plans.

“Accelerator” by finding and creating catalytic events, awards and other opportunities designed to increase the scope and pace of change