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We invest deeply in strategies shown to help schools succeed: provide funding and support to schools demon- strating success, recruit and retain extraordinary educators, engage and empow

Growing better ,

together.

Annual Report 2018

We’re tripling the number of students attending high-performing schools—to 10,000—by 2022 We invest deeply in strategies shown to help schools succeed: provide funding and support to schools demon- strating success, recruit and retain extraordinary educators, engage and empower families, advocate for supportive public policy, and help schools access quality facilities

This work is possible, together.

in Minneapolis attend a school that serves greater than 40%

We’re tripling the number of students attending high-performing schools—to 10,000—by 2022 We invest deeply in strategies shown to help schools succeed: provide funding and support to schools demon- strating success, recruit and retain extraordinary educators, engage and empower families, advocate for supportive public policy, and help schools access quality facilities

This work is possible, together.

in Minneapolis attend a school that serves greater than 40%

more kids are attending a high-performing school closing the opportunity gap, engaged parents are raising their voices and demand-ing educational equity, and we’re passing supportive public policies that address the most-challenging conditions schools face.

Education champions from across the city—

parents, funders, educators, community leaders and advocates—are working together to disrupt the status quo that has prevented far too many underserved students from reach-ing their full potential Minnesota Comeback and Great MN Schools know how challenging the work can be to realize change to close these gaps As board chairs, we believe it’s important to celebrate the success we’re seeing, while acknowledging the difficult, yet critical, work still ahead of us

This year, we added three new schools to the Great MN Schools portfolio bringing our direct school investments to just over $2.5 million, which are poised to add more than 2,000 seats at high-performing schools over time Community partners distributed 10,000

copies of Minneapolis School Finder New

policies diversified our teacher pipeline and helped schools hire more effective teachers who better reflect the students we serve

We hope that the stories, people and zations featured in the following pages con-tinue to energize you around this important work and inspire you the way they inspire us

organi-Together, we can continue building upon the progress we have made and support even more kids with better schools in a commu-nity committed to their success

more kids are attending a high-performing school closing the opportunity gap, engaged parents are raising their voices and demand-ing educational equity, and we’re passing supportive public policies that address the most-challenging conditions schools face.

Education champions from across the city—

parents, funders, educators, community leaders and advocates—are working together to disrupt the status quo that has prevented far too many underserved students from reach-ing their full potential Minnesota Comeback and Great MN Schools know how challenging the work can be to realize change to close these gaps As board chairs, we believe it’s important to celebrate the success we’re seeing, while acknowledging the difficult, yet critical, work still ahead of us

This year, we added three new schools to the Great MN Schools portfolio bringing our direct school investments to just over $2.5 million, which are poised to add more than 2,000 seats at high-performing schools over time Community partners distributed 10,000

copies of Minneapolis School Finder New

policies diversified our teacher pipeline and helped schools hire more effective teachers who better reflect the students we serve

We hope that the stories, people and zations featured in the following pages con-tinue to energize you around this important work and inspire you the way they inspire us

organi-Together, we can continue building upon the progress we have made and support even more kids with better schools in a commu-nity committed to their success

Great MN Schools: Our work

We offer a unique level of discipline, rigor and accountability.

Strengthening school sectors

Developing shared standards for quality authorizing

Increase school quality transparency for independent schools

Providing 7 independent schools with disaggregated proficiency and growth data to assess performance

—building schools’ capacity and expertise

Partnering with the Minnesota Association of Charter School Authorizers to support development

of standards, criteria for turnaround and closure

Personalized executive coaching for 12 leaders at:

Board development for 4 schools:

• Bright Water Montessori

Help successful schools serve more kids through expansion and replication

*New investment

Support promising new schools

in planning and their first years

of operation

Support strugglingschools, in partnershipwith school communities

Hosted 13 authorizers, school board members and parents on site visits

to see high-performing turnaround operators Supported LoveWorks Academy through operator turnaround

Schools across Great

MN Schools’ portfolio will have the capacity

5K 550 Bancroft

Elementary

450 Friendship Academy

of the Arts

680 Hennepin Schools

2 , 288 Hiawatha Academies

350 LoveWorks Academy

380 Northeast College Prep

660 Prodeo Academy

FY18 strategic growth plan support:

Partnering with and investing in more great schools

By 2022, Great MN Schools will dramatically change the Minneapolis K-12 landscape

0 4,500 9,000 13,500 18,000

FY18

4,862 3,951 496

FY19

6,800

4,000 800

FY20

7,000

4,500 2,500

FY21

6,700

4,500 4,500

FY22

7,000

5,000 5,000

High performing - not GMS GMS high performing GMS pipeline to high performing

Deep school partnership

Extensive due diligence, with multi-year investments

tied to milestones

Focus on school leaders

Identify and invest in ered school entrepreneurs

empow-Accountability

Hold school leaders, and ourselves, accountable to results

Ongoing market cultivation

Actively develop pipeline

of future investments, side continual engagement

along-of portfolio members

National caliber team

Deep expertise in Minnesota and national markets

Great MN Schools: Our work

We offer a unique level of discipline, rigor and accountability.

Strengthening school sectors

Developing shared standards for quality authorizing

Increase school quality transparency for independent schools

Providing 7 independent schools with disaggregated proficiency and growth data to assess performance

—building schools’ capacity and expertise

Partnering with the Minnesota Association of Charter School Authorizers to support development

of standards, criteria for turnaround and closure

Personalized executive coaching for 12 leaders at:

Board development for 4 schools:

• Bright Water Montessori

Help successful schools serve more kids through expansion and replication

*New investment

Support promising new schools

in planning and their first years

of operation

Support strugglingschools, in partnershipwith school communities

Hosted 13 authorizers, school board members and parents on site visits

to see high-performing turnaround operators Supported LoveWorks Academy through operator turnaround

Schools across Great

MN Schools’ portfolio will have the capacity

5K 550 Bancroft

Elementary

450 Friendship Academy

of the Arts

680 Hennepin Schools

2 , 288 Hiawatha Academies

350 LoveWorks Academy

380 Northeast College Prep

660 Prodeo Academy

FY18 strategic growth plan support:

Partnering with and investing in more great schools

By 2022, Great MN Schools will dramatically change the Minneapolis K-12 landscape

0 4,500 9,000 13,500 18,000

FY18

4,862 3,951 496

FY19

6,800

4,000 800

FY20

7,000

4,500 2,500

FY21

6,700

4,500 4,500

FY22

7,000

5,000 5,000

High performing - not GMS GMS high performing GMS pipeline to high performing

Deep school partnership

Extensive due diligence, with multi-year investments

tied to milestones

Focus on school leaders

Identify and invest in ered school entrepreneurs

empow-Accountability

Hold school leaders, and ourselves, accountable to results

Ongoing market cultivation

Actively develop pipeline

of future investments, side continual engagement

along-of portfolio members

National caliber team

Deep expertise in Minnesota and national markets

Deep partnership with schools

to provide an exceptional education to more Minneapolis kids.

Hiawatha Academies’ journey to honor all students

A network of neighborhood schools for nearly 1,500 students, Hiawatha has welcomed the difficult task of simultaneously growing, nurturing community relationships and strengthening their academic model

As part of our deep partnership, including

a multi-year investment from Great MN Schools and subsidized support from MN Comeback, Hiawatha is focusing on critical areas of improvement: Re-centering schools around instructional leadership and priori-tizing resources against what will most- positively impact student learning, while growing their network to serve more families

Equipping educators with guidance and support

All principals are participating in the Relay National Principals Academy—network and school leaders credit this as the best professional development they’ve experienced They also leveraged the TNTP Insight Survey to build-out classroom observation and teacher coaching

“Relay and TNTP have

provided us with tools

grounded in objectivity

and measurability

toward a healthy culture

that retains teachers

and ensures student

achievement This is

critical as we grow and

serve more families.”

~ Rochelle Van Dijk,

Hiawatha Chief

Academic Officer

Prompted by families, and informed by Relay and TNTP, Hiawatha has restructured elements of their schedule and program

Every teacher, for example, now has an instructional coach who pairs observations with regular debriefs In response, teach-ers re-designed their schedules to maxi-mize this feedback and to better pinpoint instructional diagnoses

Expanding neighborhood schools

This fall Hiawatha opened a new campus for the Hiawatha Collegiate High School The first class of 12th graders graduate spring

2019, and the school has the potential to

address the shortage of high-performing high schools in Minneapolis

The fifth school, Hiawatha College Northrop middle school, also opened this fall At full enrollment, 2,300 students will

Prep-be able to attend Hiawatha schools

Hiawatha also hired a new executive director:

Colette Owens, an educator and administrator from St Louis Public Schools, brings deep experience in teacher development, strategic planning, and equity We were thrilled

to support Hiawatha’s search efforts and represent a strategic funder perspective

foun-And teachers have taken steps to improve how they meet students’ needs This includes every teacher now being an English language edu- cator—eliminating English language support as siloed pull-out instruction

Deep partnership with schools

to provide an exceptional education to more Minneapolis kids.

Hiawatha Academies’ journey to honor all students

A network of neighborhood schools for nearly 1,500 students, Hiawatha has welcomed the difficult task of simultaneously growing, nurturing community relationships and strengthening their academic model

As part of our deep partnership, including

a multi-year investment from Great MN Schools and subsidized support from MN Comeback, Hiawatha is focusing on critical areas of improvement: Re-centering schools around instructional leadership and priori-tizing resources against what will most- positively impact student learning, while growing their network to serve more families

Equipping educators with guidance and support

All principals are participating in the Relay National Principals Academy—network and school leaders credit this as the best professional development they’ve experienced They also leveraged the TNTP Insight Survey to build-out classroom observation and teacher coaching

“Relay and TNTP have

provided us with tools

grounded in objectivity

and measurability

toward a healthy culture

that retains teachers

and ensures student

achievement This is

critical as we grow and

serve more families.”

~ Rochelle Van Dijk,

Hiawatha Chief

Academic Officer

Prompted by families, and informed by Relay and TNTP, Hiawatha has restructured elements of their schedule and program

Every teacher, for example, now has an instructional coach who pairs observations with regular debriefs In response, teach-ers re-designed their schedules to maxi-mize this feedback and to better pinpoint instructional diagnoses

Expanding neighborhood schools

This fall Hiawatha opened a new campus for the Hiawatha Collegiate High School The first class of 12th graders graduate spring

2019, and the school has the potential to

address the shortage of high-performing high schools in Minneapolis

The fifth school, Hiawatha College Northrop middle school, also opened this fall At full enrollment, 2,300 students will

Prep-be able to attend Hiawatha schools

Hiawatha also hired a new executive director:

Colette Owens, an educator and administrator from St Louis Public Schools, brings deep experience in teacher development, strategic planning, and equity We were thrilled

to support Hiawatha’s search efforts and represent a strategic funder perspective

foun-And teachers have taken steps to improve how they meet students’ needs This includes every teacher now being an English language edu- cator—eliminating English language support as siloed pull-out instruction

Leaning into improvement: Lake Nokomis-Keewaydin

Reclaiming instructional leadership

The Minneapolis district’s Keewaydin Campus (grades 3-8) consistently outpaces the district average on MCA proficiency, but has large internal gaps that the principal, La Shawn Ray, is working aggressively to address

He is helping teachers hone their craft and sharpen their ability to reach students on an individual academic level And we’re glad

to have helped port La Shawn Results are pointing in the right direction

sup-Roadmap toward excellence

Following the transformation of a Chicago district school, La Shawn arrived at Keewaydin

in fall 2016 eager to build upon a number

of the school’s positive indicators toward

a school community that demonstrates success for all students

He started by formalizing consistent wide expectations that teachers and students understand and are accountable to La Shawn

school-also set out to increase the instructional capacity of his teacher team by reimagining his position as the instructional coach for teachers He pointed to ANet as the tool and suite of strategies to achieve this goal So

MN Comeback subsidized his—and din teachers’—access to ANet, strengthening educators’ ability to leverage interim assess-ments to personalize instruction, ensure students are mastering standards, and receiving interventions and enrichment

Keeway-Exceeding goals

Bucking trends across the state

and city, Keewaydin has seen

continued growth in the number

of students reaching proficiency

In the last year, math proficiency

increased nearly 5 percentage

points—now well above the MPS

average—and reading proficiency

increased 8 percentage points

Realizing improvements

ANet coach Lindsey Hoy supported

La Shawn through 20 one-on-one consultations this past year Lindsey tailored all support to meet Keewaydin’s needs, informed by interim data, class-room observations, and meetings with

La Shawn and his instructional team

Together, La Shawn and Lindsey supported the reading team—assessing students’

interim work, examining common mistakes, identifying and prioritizing skills

to be retaught—and strengthened data meetings across instructional teams

students; it’s one of the

more diverse schools

in our city:

Ascension Catholic School plifies providing students with a great education—proficiency rates for graduating 8th graders are up

exem-to 40 percentage points higher than nearby schools And at Hope Academy, 95% of graduates are accepted into college.

These independent schools have stepped up to the plate

in a big way:

• Ascension Catholic School

• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

• DeLaSalle High School

• Hope Academy

• Risen Christ Catholic School

• St Helena Catholic School

• St John Paul II Catholic Prep School

Increasing independent schools’ instructional capacity

Our community needs schools of all types to

be part of the solution In Minneapolis, seven independent schools enroll 85 percent of the low-income students in Minneapolis attend-ing an independent school We’ve gotten to know them—what’s working well, barriers they face and opportunities for growth

The biggest challenges school leaders need to overcome:

• Financial resources and sustainability (since many students receive financial aid)

• Limited capacity of leadership and administrative staff

• Access to needed professional development and student services

• Lack of a reliable talent pipeline for excellent teachers

Strengthening neighborhood schools, starting with data best practices

In partnership with the GHR Foundation and, leveraging the expertise of FHI 360—a leader in helping organi-zations unpack

data—we’re building schools’ capacity to lect, analyze, use and report academic assess-ment data Schools are benefiting from:

col-• Customized data dashboards

• Technical supports as they expand the use of the dashboard to their teams

• School-level reports

• A planned “community of practice”

to facilitate collaboration among schoolsAll schools are sustaining their work with FHI 360 to capture results from formative and summative assessments in their dash-boards and deepen tailored strategies for data-based decision making

Helping unpack each school’s assessment data is allowing us to gain a deeper under-standing of potential for academic improve-ment, while also increasing all schools’

capacity to better manage and use student performance data Educators should be able

to aggregate and disaggregate data more easily to identify students’ strengths and growth areas—and make informed decisions about the most-efficient use of resources and effective strategies to strengthen instruction, curriculum and programming

Leaning into improvement: Lake Nokomis-Keewaydin

Reclaiming instructional leadership

The Minneapolis district’s Keewaydin Campus (grades 3-8) consistently outpaces the district average on MCA proficiency, but has large internal gaps that the principal, La Shawn Ray, is working aggressively to address

He is helping teachers hone their craft and sharpen their ability to reach students on an individual academic level And we’re glad

to have helped port La Shawn Results are pointing in the right direction

sup-Roadmap toward excellence

Following the transformation of a Chicago district school, La Shawn arrived at Keewaydin

in fall 2016 eager to build upon a number

of the school’s positive indicators toward

a school community that demonstrates success for all students

He started by formalizing consistent wide expectations that teachers and students understand and are accountable to La Shawn

school-also set out to increase the instructional capacity of his teacher team by reimagining his position as the instructional coach for teachers He pointed to ANet as the tool and suite of strategies to achieve this goal So

MN Comeback subsidized his—and din teachers’—access to ANet, strengthening educators’ ability to leverage interim assess-ments to personalize instruction, ensure students are mastering standards, and receiving interventions and enrichment

Keeway-Exceeding goals

Bucking trends across the state

and city, Keewaydin has seen

continued growth in the number

of students reaching proficiency

In the last year, math proficiency

increased nearly 5 percentage

points—now well above the MPS

average—and reading proficiency

increased 8 percentage points

Realizing improvements

ANet coach Lindsey Hoy supported

La Shawn through 20 one-on-one consultations this past year Lindsey tailored all support to meet Keewaydin’s needs, informed by interim data, class-room observations, and meetings with

La Shawn and his instructional team

Together, La Shawn and Lindsey supported the reading team—assessing students’

interim work, examining common mistakes, identifying and prioritizing skills

to be retaught—and strengthened data meetings across instructional teams

students; it’s one of the

more diverse schools

in our city:

Ascension Catholic School plifies providing students with a great education—proficiency rates for graduating 8th graders are up

exem-to 40 percentage points higher than nearby schools And at Hope Academy, 95% of graduates are accepted into college.

These independent schools have stepped up to the plate

in a big way:

• Ascension Catholic School

• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

• DeLaSalle High School

• Hope Academy

• Risen Christ Catholic School

• St Helena Catholic School

• St John Paul II Catholic Prep School

Increasing independent schools’ instructional capacity

Our community needs schools of all types to

be part of the solution In Minneapolis, seven independent schools enroll 85 percent of the low-income students in Minneapolis attend-ing an independent school We’ve gotten to know them—what’s working well, barriers they face and opportunities for growth

The biggest challenges school leaders need to overcome:

• Financial resources and sustainability (since many students receive financial aid)

• Limited capacity of leadership and administrative staff

• Access to needed professional development and student services

• Lack of a reliable talent pipeline for excellent teachers

Strengthening neighborhood schools, starting with data best practices

In partnership with the GHR Foundation and, leveraging the expertise of FHI 360—a leader in helping organi-zations unpack

data—we’re building schools’ capacity to lect, analyze, use and report academic assess-ment data Schools are benefiting from:

col-• Customized data dashboards

• Technical supports as they expand the use of the dashboard to their teams

• School-level reports

• A planned “community of practice”

to facilitate collaboration among schoolsAll schools are sustaining their work with FHI 360 to capture results from formative and summative assessments in their dash-boards and deepen tailored strategies for data-based decision making

Helping unpack each school’s assessment data is allowing us to gain a deeper under-standing of potential for academic improve-ment, while also increasing all schools’

capacity to better manage and use student performance data Educators should be able

to aggregate and disaggregate data more easily to identify students’ strengths and growth areas—and make informed decisions about the most-efficient use of resources and effective strategies to strengthen instruction, curriculum and programming

MN Comeback: Our work

We’re addressing the most-challenging conditions that schools face.

effective-Strengthen talent management practices in schools

Taking on bigger lifts Alongside partners ranging from EdAllies

to the Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs,

we expanded preparation pathways for teachers

Community engagement

Increase agency of families

to advocate for their children and for systems change

Increase accountability in community for improving school quality

copies are in the hands

of parents and seven Family Advocates are providing families (147, to be exact) with one-on-one support

Our growing coalition includes:

Centro Tyrone Guzman Children’s Defense Fund-MN The Coalition to Increase Teachers

of Color and American Indian Teachers

in Minnesota EdAllies Educators for Excellence-MN Isuroon

KWST

La Oportunidad Latino Youth Development Lifting Individuals & Families Together Little Earth

Minneapolis Public Schools Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

MN Harvest Initiative &

H White Men’s Room Navigate MN Network for the Development

of Children of African Descent NewPublica

Opportunity For All Kids Pillsbury United Communities Propel Nonprofits

Search Institute Somali American Parent Association Students for Education Reform-MN Teach For America-Twin Cities Way to Grow

academic, social emotional and cultural needs Rigor and relevance

go hand-in-hand

Our Relevance Committee completed a framework after synthesizing nearly 50 pieces of research, capturing domains

of empowered school communities:

relatedness, competence and

autono-my This framework has strengthened

our work, from Minneapolis School Finder to grant making.

Policy

Schools are able

to recruit and retain diverse and high-quality educators Empower schools

to make critical decisions around budget, staffing Hold schools and school systems accountable to meaningful academic and school climate standards Address funding inequities for schools

Policy decisions value the voices of families, educators and/or schools

Absent school-specific funding revenues and expenditures, our community has struggled to have conversations on funding equity based on concrete information

So, we turned to E4E, funding the teacher-led white paper,

Our Students Can’t Wait

Conversations

on the equitable distribution of resources is critical The pages of this paper bring that

to light with more clarity and solutions MINNESOTA

MN Comeback: Our work

We’re addressing the most-challenging conditions that schools face.

effective-Strengthen talent management practices in schools

Taking on bigger lifts Alongside partners ranging from EdAllies

to the Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs,

we expanded preparation pathways for teachers

Community engagement

Increase agency of families

to advocate for their children and for systems change

Increase accountability in community for improving school quality

copies are in the hands

of parents and seven Family Advocates are providing families (147, to be exact) with one-on-one support

Our growing coalition includes:

Centro Tyrone Guzman Children’s Defense Fund-MN The Coalition to Increase Teachers

of Color and American Indian Teachers

in Minnesota EdAllies Educators for Excellence-MN Isuroon

KWST

La Oportunidad Latino Youth Development Lifting Individuals & Families Together Little Earth

Minneapolis Public Schools Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

MN Harvest Initiative &

H White Men’s Room Navigate MN Network for the Development

of Children of African Descent NewPublica

Opportunity For All Kids Pillsbury United Communities Propel Nonprofits

Search Institute Somali American Parent Association Students for Education Reform-MN Teach For America-Twin Cities Way to Grow

academic, social emotional and cultural needs Rigor and relevance

go hand-in-hand

Our Relevance Committee completed a framework after synthesizing nearly 50 pieces of research, capturing domains

of empowered school communities:

relatedness, competence and

autono-my This framework has strengthened

our work, from Minneapolis School Finder to grant making.

Policy

Schools are able

to recruit and retain diverse and high-quality educators Empower schools

to make critical decisions around budget, staffing Hold schools and school systems accountable to meaningful academic and school climate standards Address funding inequities for schools

Policy decisions value the voices of families, educators and/or schools

Absent school-specific funding revenues and expenditures, our community has struggled to have conversations on funding equity based on concrete information

So, we turned to E4E, funding the teacher-led white paper,

Our Students Can’t Wait

Conversations

on the equitable distribution of resources is critical The pages of this paper bring that

to light with more clarity and solutions MINNESOTA

Stories from the community

No matter the barriers, no matter the climate and no matter the conditions, advocates press on This year was about investing in the advocacy capacity of underserved families We’re grateful

to collaborate with a range of groups to increase the number of parent advocates demanding more great schools.

Children’s Defense Fund-MN:

Moving the work forward

This year, CDF covered new ground and cultivated relationships with more parents—particularly those who are indigenous—in the Phillips, East Phillips and Powderhorn neighborhoods

With parents co-designing training topics, CDF builds a continuum and arch of advocacy skill-building It starts with meeting parent demand on topics like child develop-ment, food access and nutrition And with

a grant from MN Comeback, CDF was able

to build upon their trainings to cover education topics—such as disaggregated academic data—more deeply

Parent-led events Parents

Advocacy trainings

Trainings helped parents secure school resources from the district and prepare to advocate at a school board budget meeting

“It’s refreshing to see

CDF survey:

of parents felt better equipped to advocate for their child

of parents felt they increased their knowledge about advocacy and

government processes

Stories from the community

No matter the barriers, no matter the climate and no matter the conditions, advocates press on This year was about investing in the advocacy capacity of underserved families We’re grateful

to collaborate with a range of groups to increase the number of parent advocates demanding more great schools.

Children’s Defense Fund-MN:

Moving the work forward

This year, CDF covered new ground and cultivated relationships with more parents—particularly those who are indigenous—in the Phillips, East Phillips and Powderhorn neighborhoods

With parents co-designing training topics, CDF builds a continuum and arch of advocacy skill-building It starts with meeting parent demand on topics like child develop-ment, food access and nutrition And with

a grant from MN Comeback, CDF was able

to build upon their trainings to cover education topics—such as disaggregated academic data—more deeply

Parent-led events Parents

Advocacy trainings

Trainings helped parents secure school resources from the district and prepare to advocate at a school board budget meeting

“It’s refreshing to see

CDF survey:

of parents felt better equipped to advocate for their child

of parents felt they increased their knowledge about advocacy and

government processes

parents co-designed Centro’s training curriculum

Latino Youth Development Collaborative: Amplifying advocacy confidence

It’s not with ease that one can navigate our school systems And that’s where LYDC steps in with Promotores y Promotoras

The 12-week, in-depth program for 100 Latinx parents dives into child development, scenarios one might encounter at a school (behavior, academic, low expectations) and local politics Parents gain confidence to ini-tiate communication with schools, research and stay informed on school performance, and advocate at the Capitol

Many parents who face significant barriers don’t often encounter schools ready or open

to their inquisitiveness or expectations

LYDC embodies the knowledge journey of parents; it’s also about the people and pol-icies embracing a new norm where parents are true partners in their children’s education

Centro Tyrone Guzman:

Positioning families for success

Toward a more thriving, forward-thinking Latinx community, Centro created—and tailored—curriculum grounded in family advocacy, access and agency And from each workshop stemmed a call to action—

speaking up at district budget meetings, joining its Latino Parent Advisory Council

or testifying at the Capitol

Keeping families and their motivations central, Centro’s well-attended workshops leave parents engaged and ready for more

Of the 62 participants:

• 100% reported feeling more empowered to advocate

• 90% “began or intend to begin”

advocating within a school or system

• 100% helped design a gubernatorial forum that three candidates attended

“The legacy I can pass onto my five children is

an education I tell them all the time, ‘We don’t have property or money, but I will make sure you have something that

no one can take away—

an educated mind.’”

– Centro parent

Latinx parents