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

Studies have shown that over 50% of a student’s performance is driven by factors outside of schools including socioeconomic conditions, parent education level, and cultural expectations.

Communities that support education both inside AND outside the classroom create a culture of learning that raises the performance level of all students and strengthens the system of education and the community.

 

Draft Blueprint Objective:

  • Community based organizations, parents, local industry, and education work together to create successful conditions for learning and achievement.
Action Strategies*
Draft Success Indicators*

  1. Launch a major regional education “movement” leveraging campaign messaging around the theme Graduates Are Made. Not Born. TM 

  2. Provide outreach to recruit significantly higher numbers of community volunteers into schools as mentors, tutors and coaches (see Goal 2).

  3. Identify and promote best practices in corporate citizenship in education including volunteerism, sponsorship, career awareness, industry skills alignment and financial support.

  4. Assist school districts, higher education and communities in creating an integrated communication strategy and engagement plan. 

  5. Identify existing measures such as school climate surveys to determine the common factors already collected by districts (parent involvement, volunteer counts & hours, etc.) to help measure community support for schools.

  6. Advance community action plans generated from the 2007 and 2008 Deliberative Dialogues and expand the dialogues process to other parts of the Central Texas region.

  7. Expand outreach to Spanish-speaking families through messaging and events that tie education to personal and community prosperity (Para Una Buena Vida).

  • Percent of participation of non-district personnel in District Advisory Committee (DAC)

  • Percent of growth in parental involvement

  • Percent of organizations meeting collaboration standards

  • Number of volunteer hours

  • Number of volunteer hours devoted to academic student support (tutoring, coaching, career planning)

  • Number of business volunteer hours in schools by employer

  • Number of students participating in youth support services and activities (mentoring, coaching, after school programs)

  • Rate of community responsiveness to district requests for support and participation (length of time to respond, match of response to request, duration of support)

  • Efficiency in community/district resource use

  • Total non-school funds allocated to public education and higher education

*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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