Striving Together: 2009 Strive Report Card and Networks Progress Report

Download the 2009 Strive Report Card

Download the 2009 Progress Report on Student Success Networks and Other Strategies

Strive Report Card

A year has passed since the release of the first annual Striving Together: Student Progress on the Roadmap to Success report and we find ourselves in the midst of challenging economic times, requiring us to make some very tough decisions when it comes to improving education. Now more than ever, we are required to do more with less and use data to drive our decision-making, especially when it comes to ensuring the success of our most precious resource – human capital.

Strive is a unique partnership of the education, business, nonprofit, community, civic and philanthropic sectors. Strive is focused on identifying the strategies that will have the greatest impact and ensuring those actions that get results are expanded to serve as many students as possible. The Striving Together report serves as a catalyst for discussion in our community about the current state of education and a launching point to identify critical areas we need to focus on to achieve our shared goals. While last year’s report intended to set a baseline, this year’s report includes trend information and establishes benchmarks, where available, that we are actively working to achieve. These benchmarks align with the existing goals of our partners and take into account suggestions generated through community conversations.
Strive established a committee comprised of local data experts to help develop this report. We ask the reader to use caution when attempting to make comparisons across the data. In many cases, different assessments are being used across geography and grade level; therefore, comparing data across school districts is not always possible and is, more importantly, not the purpose of this report. While the report will enable us to analyze trends across the existing data, it will also help us to identify additional data that we need, in order to measure our success. In short, we hope that good data will drive out bad data.

Download the 2009 Strive Report Card
Download the 2008 Strive Report Card

Strive Networks Progress Report

The focus of Striving Together: Progress Report on Student Success Networks and Other Strategies is on the successes and challenges faced by the networks of Strive partners working to improve the state of education. There are currently 15 networks of providers working in strategies that the partnership identified as being integral to student success.

Over the past two years, more than 250 organizations have stepped up to participate in these networks, and they have dedicated countless hours of time into developing shared action plans that will help ensure students get the support they need to succeed inside and outside the classroom. There is a renewed commitment to use data among these partners to not just prove what they are doing is working, but to use data to drive decisions to continuously improve their work over time to better serve students.

This report is divided into two major parts. The first part is divided into sections organized into three core values these Networks share: collaboration, alignment and effectiveness. Each Student Success Network is highlighted within these values to show the impact it is currently infusing in our community.

The second part of this report is a directory of Student Success Networks so you can see at a glance who is involved, their shared problem, how they will make a difference, what progress will look like, and their desired outcome.

Download the 2009 Progress Report on Student Success Networks and Other Strategies