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.
Cradle to Career
Find resources related to the four pipeline areas: Early Childhood, Kindergarten to Grade 12, College and Career, and Family and Community Supports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND WHITE HOUSE WEBINAR SERIES
Understand how to blend and braid federal, state, and local funds to implement whole child approaches to education.
Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
Learn about sustaining Promise Neighborhoods from grantees and others with expert guidance and reflections.
Results (93)
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
Promise Neighborhoods Frequently Asked Questions
Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2014
The Urban Institute provides technical assistance to Promise Neighborhoods implementation grantees to ensure they can successfully collect and use data to make continuous improvements, measure their results, and report to the U.S. Department of Education. To assist grantees awarded in 2016 or earlier in developing case management systems, collecting consistent and uniform Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) indicators, and meeting reporting requirements, the Urban Institute released “Measuring Performance: Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results” in February 2013.
Some Considerations Pertinent to a Promise Neighborhoods National Evaluation
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2014
This document describes key issues to consider when undertaking a comprehensive evaluation of the performance and impact of the Promise Neighborhoods grantees at large. The guidance offers the perspective of organizations working at the intersection of evaluation and practice—seeking to improve the outcomes for children and families with low incomes and to understand the most effective ways of measuring results.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Security and Confidentiality K-12 Academic Performance
Building Infrastructure to Support Cross Sector Integration in Early Childhood Work
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2014
This webinar, hosted by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink in partnership with ZERO TO THREE, discusses how Hayward Promise Neighborhood and other communities are building cohesive systems that coordinate and align services to ensure all children enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Early Childhood Education Program Delivery/Partners
Foundations of School Readiness
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2014
This webinar is a community of practice discussion for Promise Neighborhoods on the "Foundations of School Readiness," hosted by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink and featuring experts from ZERO TO THREE.
Presenters include:
- Samuel Sinyangwe with the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink
- Jodi Whiteman, ZERO TO THREE
- Valerie Dawkins Krajec, ZERO TO THREE
Data Collection Early Childhood Education Program Delivery/Partners
Building the Capacity of Educators and Service Providers to Support Black Male Achievement
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2014
This webinar, hosted by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, discusses professional development programs being implemented in Promise Neighborhoods to effectively promote the academic achievement of children of color with low incomes, with a focus on Black boys and young men.
Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
A Developmental Pathway for Achieving Promise Neighborhoods Results
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2014
This important tool was developed to help Promise Neighborhood communities and the field at large better understand the external conditions and developmental milestones needed to build the cradle- to- career continuum and to achieve the goals and outcomes set forth in Promise Neighborhoods. The tool illustrates the developmental pathways necessary to achieve the Promise Neighborhoods vision.
Data Collection K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners
Who Cares About Data?
Author: Sarah Gillespie | Year of Publication: 2014
This blog post discusses how data-driven programs and communities are better equipped to work toward solutions that provide results to their communities. The blog draws on the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative's work on chronic absenteeism as an example.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Management Systems K-12 Academic Performance