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Founding Executive Director
Company NameThe Commit! Partnership
Dates EmployedOct 2011 – Present
Employment Duration7 yrs 4 mos
LocationDallas, TX
Organization focused on acting as civic educational infrastructure for region and substantially improving career readiness across Dallas County and its 800,000+ students ages 0-22 who live there. Primary strategies involve using robust data to identify biggest leaks in educational pipeline and developing strategies to reduce/eliminate them through innovative coalitions of foundations, practitioners, policy makers and volunteers while also using data and research to help scale and spread most effective best practices across educational institutions and the non-profits who support them. Work is divided into three primary branded work streams. "Early Matters Dallas" is focused on Ages 0-8 with a "true north" goal of 3rd grade literacy for all children. "Best-in-Class" is focused on improving regional educator pipelines (both teachers and campus leaders) serving the 55 school districts employing 77,000 teachers and 1.1 million students in Dallas Fort Worth metro area. "Dallas County Promise" is focused on substantially improving college access and completion rates through by bringing together mentoring combined with last-dollar scholarships to provide free community college tuition at Dallas Community Colleges and combining with scholarships from UNT-Dallas, SMU and other four year institutions. See less |