WHY DOES NAZ EXIST? Jaquan faces these odds 37% high school graduation rate 25% homeless or high mobility 16% college readiness 13% graduate from college on time $18,000 household income 63% unemployment
ENDING MULTIGENERATIONAL POVERTY
Formed out of a collaborative started in 2008 NAZ is now the “backbone” organization for a collective impact collaborative Made up of 9 schools, 30+ partners, and over 680 families AN ORGANIZATION & COMMUNITY OF CHANGE
ENDING MULTIGENERATIONAL POVERTY Two generation approach Stronger parenting Academic and whole-family supports Parents no longer perennial recipients of social services, but leading change Parents and scholars committed to college graduation
Build a culture of achievement NAZ GEOGRAPHIC ZONE
Entire Zone Population that NAZ is accountable for improvement of outcomes REACHING POPULATION-LEVEL RESULTS
NAZ-enrolled Group of scholars NAZ is implementing solutions with and accountable for performance. REACHING POPULATION-LEVEL RESULTS
Performance with NAZ-enrolled scholars drives Zone-wide results. REACHING POPULATION-LEVEL RESULTS
LONG-TERM OUTCOME PROJECTIONS Kindergarten Readiness 3 rd Grade reading performance 8 th Grade math performance Graduation rates 28% 80% 51% 80% 16% 70% 29% 70%
NAZ ENROLLMENT Goal: 1,000 Families & 2,500 Scholars FAMILIES ENROLLED SCHOLARS ENROLLED
DEMOGRAPHICS Demographics Income
UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION
COLLABORATION TO GENERATE BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS Public/private partnership Multi-sector and cross agency alignment for first time on Northside Data driven
NAZ ECOSYSTEM
“TEAM JAQUAN”
Goal for all families, partners and schools: college readiness! Family Achievement Plan Data and progress monitoring system: NAZ Connect Evidence-based practice: NAZ Seal of Effectiveness Solution Plans Team of NAZ staff located across partners
DATA DRIVEN
DATA SYSTEM Achievement planning and data collection system Drives Achievement Supports coordination across partners Tracks individual, program ad longitudinal data
Collective learning and performance accountability Monthly convening Includes senior NAZ staff, Board members, Parent Advisory Board members, and rotation of partner leaders Analysis to find technical and adaptive solutions Building culture of accountability: partners are accountable to each other and to families RESULTS NAZ ROUNDTABLE ANALYSIS OF DATA
EARLYOUTCOMES
MCA SCORES RISE WITH ENROLLMENT LENGTH Longer enrollment in NAZ is associated with higher academic proficiency on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment for children in grades 3-5 for the school year.
KINDERDARTEN READINESS Based on the results of the Beginning Kindergarten Assessment, NAZ-enrolled scholars are more likely to be kindergarten ready than non-enrolled children in our Zone. Kindergarten readiness exceeded target (42%) in The difference in percentage from previous reports is due to more representative sampling.
3RD GRADE MCA READING PROFICIENCY NAZ exceeded the 3rd grade reading target (15%) for