Collective Impact:
The Great Cities Model
Adult Education Great Cities Summit Barrera Team
Barbara Garner, Project Co-Manager
Cristine Smith, Project Co-Manager
Margaret Doughty, Coalition-Building Manager
Kimberly Scott, Coalition Builder
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education
Cheryl Keenan, Director, Adult Education and Literacy
Christopher Coro, Leader, Innovation and Improvement &
Best Practices and Dissemination Team
National Institute for Literacy
Daniel Miller, Acting Director
Anticipated Outcomes for City Teams
Site Visits
1,2,3,4,5
Webinars
1,2,3,4,5
Summits
1,2,3,4,5
City Team Outcomes
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What drives higher literacy?
Isolated
Impact
• Understand that social
problems – and their solutions –
arise from interaction of many
organizations within larger
system
• Cross-sector alignment with
government, nonprofit,
philanthropic and corporate
sectors as partners
Collective
Impact
• Organizations actively
coordinating their action and
sharing lessons learned
• All working toward the same
goal and measuring the same
things
What drives higher literacy?
What drives higher literacy?
Next Steps: Building on Lessons Learned
HOUSTON
NEW YORK
CITY
MIAMI
LOS ANGELES
CHICAGO
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What drives higher literacy?
Common Agenda
Shared
Measurement
Mutually Reinforcing
Activities
Continuous
Communication
Backbone Organizations
Houston Team
Sheri Suarez Foreman
President and CEO
Houston Center for Literacy
Dr. David Joost
Director, Adult Education
Houston Community College
Dr. Laveria Hutcheson
Professor
University of Houston
Tina Angelo
Literacy Specialist
Houston Independent School District
Roosevelt Weeks
Deputy Director
Houston Public Library
Houston Initiatives
Literacy Awareness Campaign
Advocacy
City-Wide Capacity Building
Develop Statewide Database
Statewide AmeriCorp Literacy Program
Miami Team
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Adult & Workforce Education
Miami Dade College
Adult Education
Miami-Dade Family Learning Partnership
Miami-Dade Public Library System
Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust
Miami Initiatives
Convened forum for broad, multi-agency partnership
Developed shared vision of adult education relevance
Created strategic plan for district & college programs
Linked to regional economic & workforce plans
Designed process to sustain long-term development
New York City Team
City University of New York, Language and Literacy
Programs
Literacy Assistance Center
Neighborhood Family Services Coalition
New York City Department of Education, Office of
Adult and Continuing Education
New York City Department of Youth and Community
Development
New York City Initiatives
GED Campaign to Finish
Common Core Workgroup
New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy
Chicago Team
Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition
City Colleges of Chicago
Illinois Community College Board
Illinois Department of Human Services
Chicago Workforce Investment Council
Chicago Initiatives
Joint Effort to Increase Literacy Services in
Underserved Areas
City Colleges of Chicago working with Illinois
Community College Board to produce open source
Lesson Plans for Bridge Programs
Development of Referral Plan from Literacy
Coalition Providers to City Colleges Bridges
Los Angeles Team
Centro Latino for Literacy
Jewish Vocational Services
Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles Unified School District
ESL/CBET & Citizenship Program
Division of Adult & Career Education
Los Angeles Initiatives
Deliver high quality reading training to reform
literacy instruction for adult learners
Ensure literacy is a high priority in Los Angeles
Reform the system for accessing and appropriating
literacy resources
PRESENT DAY: State fiscal crisis cut funding from
$750M to $300M. State Budget looking to shift
from K-12 to community colleges
Adult Education Great Cities
CHICAGO ♦ HOUSTON ♦ LOS ANGELES ♦ MIAMI ♦ NEW YORK
An independent initiative building upon the national Adult Education Great Cities Summit
What’s next?