Resources
The Promise Neighborhoods Training and Technical Assistance team, the U.S. Department of Education, Promise Neighborhoods grantees, and key technical assistance partners have produced written guidance, tools, and videos about how to launch and manage a successful cradle-to-career pipeline of solutions and strategies for early learners, students, and families in economically distressed communities. Resources appear in the order they were added with the most recent additions first.
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Making Good on a Promise: Working to End Intergenerational Poverty in Kenilworth-Parkside
Author: Megan Gallagher, Brittany Murray, Maia Woluchem, Susan J. Popkin | Year of Publication: 2015
The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) is on a mission to end the cycle of intergenerational poverty in Kenilworth-Parkside, a geographically isolated community in Northeast Washington, DC. By partnering with local organizations to provide targeted, data-driven interventions to youth and parents, DCPNI is working to improve educational, economic, health, and socio-emotional outcomes within a community plagued by the effects of concentrated poverty.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Early Childhood Education Family Supports K-12 Academic Performance
Resources for Place-Based Initiatives
Author: Sarah Gillespie and Peter Tatian | Year of Publication: 2015
This brief reviews resources that provide more information and guidance on the major steps discussed in the Urban Institute brief “Six Steps to Success”: (1) define a set of indicators through which to measure and report results, (2) select target populations, and establish baseline population counts and penetration rates, (3) align evidence-based programs to indicators and target populations, (4) inventory available data and decide what original data collection is necessary, (5) establish an appropriate data system, and (6) collect and report on indicators.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Collecting and Using Performance Data in Place-Based Initiatives
Author: Sarah Gillespie and Peter Tatian | Year of Publication: 2015
A consensus is growing among funders and practitioners that effective performance measurement is essential to improving the results of community change efforts. Gathering and using performance data can be a daunting task, however, particularly for place-based initiatives that engage several service providers and aspire to bring about population-level change.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Preparing and Fielding High-Quality Surveys: Practical Strategies for Successfully Implementing Neighborhood and School Climate Surveys in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Kaitlin Franks Hildner, Elizabeth Oo, Peter A. Tatian | Year of Publication: 2015
This document builds on earlier guidance on preparing and administering surveys in chapter 7 of Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results. The document also expands on lessons learned from the experiences of Promise Neighborhoods implementation grantees to provide practical guidance on how to prepare and manage high-quality neighborhood and school surveys.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Health and Wellbeing Parent and Community Engagement Family Supports K-12 Academic Performance
Continually Improving Promise Neighborhoods: The Role of Case Management Data
Author: Mary Bogle, Sarah Gillespie, Christopher Hayes | Year of Publication: 2015
This report summarizes how to review case management data in the context of a Promise Neighborhood’s strategy, particularly its theory of change and results framework. Although written based on experience gained working with Promise Neighborhoods, the guidance can be adapted to similar place-based and comprehensive change efforts.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Management Systems Early Childhood Education K-12 Academic Performance
Supporting Place-Based Initiatives: Data-Driven Promise in the District of Columbia
Author: Leah Hendey, G. Thomas Kingsley | Year of Publication: 2015
NeighborhoodInfo DC supports the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) and is a partner in the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, a peer-learning network operated by the Urban Institute. To inform its planning efforts, DCPNI used the data NeighborhoodInfo DC staff had compiled and analyzed. NeighborhoodInfo DC participated in working groups and shared data on crime, education, and early childhood that highlighted important issues and drove the formation of program strategies.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Health and Wellbeing Program Delivery/Partners
Promoting Academic Proficiency in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2015
Academic achievement is vital to children's educational attainment and economic well-being. The Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink hosted this webinar to discuss best practices and approaches to improve academic proficiency rates in Promise Neighborhoods communities (Government Performance and Results Act indicator 4 per previous 2013 guidance). The webinar features the following experts:
- Sherry Taubert, Project Director, Berea Promise Neighborhood
- Christina Theokas, Ph.D., Director of Research, Education Trust
Early Childhood Education K-12 Academic Performance Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
School Readiness and Promise Neighborhoods
Author: First 5 LA | Year of Publication: 2015
This presentation explores school readiness research and the best practices and trends affecting school readiness. It also introduces First 5 LA's Early Childhood Education strategy.
Early Childhood Education K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners
From Cradle to Career: The Multiple Challenges Facing Immigrant Families in Langley Park Promise Neighborhood
Author: Molly M. Scott, Graham MacDonald, Juan Collazos, Ben Levinger, Eliza Leighton, Jamila Ball | Year of Publication: 2014
With estimates predicting that immigrants and their children will account for most U.S. population growth over the next four decades, it is critical to understand how to build ladders of opportunity for these families. This report assesses the needs of Langley Park, an immigrant neighborhood outside Washington, DC. Langley Park families are resilient but experience substantial hardships that may stall the progress of subsequent generations. At six crucial life transitions, children lag behind on indicators of future success.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Early Childhood Education Family Supports K-12 Academic Performance
Promise Neighborhood Target Setting Guidance
Author: Sarah Gillespie Ellis and Peter Tatian | Year of Publication: 2014
Promise Neighborhood implementation grantees are required to set and submit baselines, actual performance data, and targets for each Government Performance and Results Act indicator and for all 5 years of the grant program. While grantees were required to address targets in their applications, these targets were set before complete baseline data were available at each site and before the following publication was released: “Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results.” This continuing guidance identifies several data sources, considerations, and methods sites may consider when setting targets.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Early Childhood Education K-12 Academic Performance