Geneva 2020 Steering Committee

Meeting

September 15, 201512 p.m.-2 p.m.

Seneca Room, HWS

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We will build a stronger Geneva by harnessing the resources of the entire community in support of our children so that they may graduate prepared for lives of consequence.

Today’s Agenda12:00 - Welcome and Lunch• General Geneva 2020 Updates

12:15 – Celebrate Partner Success• SUNY C2C Theory of Action Successes

12:30 – Identify Unmet Benchmarks• Not yet met: Consistent messaging to community (Pillar 1), commitment to continuous improvement

(Pillar 3)• In progress: Backbone capacity (Pillar 4)

12:45 – Plans to Address Pillars 1 & 3• Creating a Partnership Agreement

– Review examples– Discuss roles, responsibilities, and operating principles of Steering Committee– Discuss continuous improvement– Identify 2-3 members to help draft Geneva 2020 Partnership Agreement

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Today’s Agenda (cont.)

• Messaging to the Community– Discuss ideas for sharing Geneva 2020 information beyond the partnership

1:30 — Plan to Address Pillar 4• Strengthen Backbone Capacity• Provide plan to better align Partnership Director responsibilities for grant funding with

suggested C2C collective impact approach• Discuss establishment of Data Committee to analyze baseline data collected and to identify

additional data needed

1:45 — Next Steps/Action Commitments and Check-out• Next meeting date: TBD• Question of the day: What is one action I can take before our next meeting to help our

partnership continue to move forward?

2:00 — Adjourn

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Summer Reading Buddies:A program designed to address the summer reading slide

through a partnership between Geneva Boys and Girls Club, the Geneva Public Library and Geneva 2020

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Summer Reading Buddies 2015: Every Hero Has a Story

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ToA: Benchmarks that we have Successfully CompletedPillar 1: Shared Community Vision

1. A cross-sector partnership with a defined geographic scope organizes around a cradle to career vision.– List of partners and their sectors– Building the leadership table (SUNY C2C)/Partnership Table– Geographic scope—location is clear in the Vision and Strategy of Geneva 2020– Partnership forms will include language mentioning the “city and town of Geneva, which serves ### of

students…” to clarify location.

2. A cross-sector leadership table is convened with a documented accountability structure.– List of Steering Committee members– Accountability Structure

Pillar 2: Evidence Based Decision Making1. The partnership selects community level outcomes to be held accountable for improving.

– Roadmap—outcomes 2. The partnership selects core indicators for the community level outcomes.

– Roadmap--Indicators

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Plan to address Pillar 1Creating a Partnership Agreement1. Examples from other SUNY C2C Partners• Which points in the examples resonate with you?• Which points fit with Geneva 2020?• This is YOUR agreement. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, but we need it to

represent our initiative and our community.

2. Discuss roles, responsibilities, and operating principles of Steering Committee

3. Identify 2-3 members to work with Amy on drafting the Geneva 2020 Partnership Agreement.

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Plan to address Pillar 1 (cont.)

Getting our message out• Discuss ideas for sharing information

about Geneva 2020 beyond the partnership.

• Must use consistent language, including logo, tagline, strategy, vision

• What can we share?• Where can we share it?

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Pillar 3: Continuous Improvement

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• Agree that continuous improvement should be a part of our plan going forward.

• Include language similar to “using continuous improvement to guide the work” in our Partnership Agreement.

• Continuous improvement is to Plan, Do, Check, and Act.• We will always be searching for ways to be stronger and better.• CANs must also commit to a continuous improvement model.• At our next Steering Committee meeting, we will present a

continuous improvement model and work towards adopting such a model.

Needs more workPillar 4: Investment and Sustainability

1. An anchor entity is established and capacity to support the daily management of the partnership is in place.• HWS Colleges are the anchor.• Geneva 2020 Program Coordinator position• Need to work more on building the backbone • Grant/Funding to support a CAN person or data

person• Show support for process, not for programming

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Needs more workPillar 4: Investment and

Sustainability(cont.)

2. The partnership engages funders to support the operations and collaborative work of partners to improve outcomes.• HWS engaged funders to hire the Geneva 2020 Program

Coordinator• Need to find funds/process for data collection• If we finalized a process (including funding) for data

collection with school, BOCES, Success for Geneva’s Children, then this would be completed.

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Thank You

Feel free to contact Amy Jackson Sellers, Geneva 2020 Program Coordinator,

at (315) 781-3825 or sellers@HWS.edu with any follow up questions or comments.

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VisionGeneva is a vibrant community of vast opportunities where people prosper

and all our children thrive.

StrategyWe will build a stronger Geneva by harnessing the resources of the entire community

in support of our children so that they may graduate prepared for lives of consequence.

Goals

Every child enters school ready to learn (kindergarten readiness).

Every student is supported and engaged and succeeds in school.

Every graduate attains employment or a post-secondary credential.

Outcomes

Early Childhood Success (Cognitive, social, emotional,

and physical health, and language and literacy)

LiteracySuccess

STEaMSuccess

High Graduation

Rate

College Readiness

Career Readiness

Indicators

TBD based on 2015-2016 analysis of 0-4 surveys and

data.

90% students at grade level in ELA in 3rd and 6th grade.

90% students proficient in Algebra by the end of 9th grade.

90% graduation rate in all groups in the district.

TBD based on 2015-16 analysis of

focus group/data.

TBD based on 2015-16 analysis of

focus group/data.

Attendance rate at 95% in all buildings.DRAFT

Geneva 2020 Roadmap

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Steering Committee

Community Partners& Anchor Entity

Goal 3College/ Career

Readiness

Goal 2School (K-12)

Goal 1Kindergarten

Readiness

Data & Communications

Data &

Comm

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Data &

Com

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icatio

ns

TBDKindergarten

Surveys

Literacy

STEaM

GraduationRate

TBDCareer

TBDCollege

Anchor Entity: A neutral entity; provides key staff and data supports, communicates and works across sectors to eliminate silos and deliver results, and has convening power to ensure that key leaders will consistently come to the table over time.

Steering Committee: Comprised of core cross-sector leaders from across the Geneva community; provides strategic guidance; members possess the authority to leverage significant financial and/or social capital to advance Geneva 2020 goals and outcomes; key public champions.

Collaborative Action Networks: Comprised of existing/emerging groups and coalitions, including stakeholders, practitioners, and issue experts. Specific responsibilities include: 1) Identify initial contributing indicators and commit to integrating these indicators into own performance tracking; 2) Identify successful strategies and commit to integrating into practice/program 3) Communicate progress to Steering Committee

DRAFT

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African American Men’s Association

William G. McGowan Charitable Fund

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