AVID: advancement via individual determination implementation in RPS

Impacting: Education ; Adult Education ; Children & Youth

Led by : Rochester Public Schools
Description AVID is not just another program… at its heart, AVID is a philosophy Hold students accountable to the highest standards, provide academic and social support, and they will rise to the challenge. AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the achievement gap by preparing all students for college and other postsecondary opportunities. Established more than 35 years ago with one teacher in one classroom, AVID today impacts nearly 1.5 million students in 46 states and 16 other countries/territories. View our AVID Snapshot.

City for Good Education: Pathway for parents to have more involvement with their children's education

Impacting: African American ; Native American ; Latino

Led by : CIty for Good
Description TBD

Identification and intervention for adverse childhood experiences in our local community - A Study

Impacting: Chronic Illness

Led by : Olmsted County Public Health Services
Description To develop local ACEs screening and intervention programs for children and evaluate the impact of these new intervention programs on the mental health and developmental trajectory in children.

The Rochester Early Childhood Education Hub

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Led by : Alliance of Chicanos, Hispanics and Latin American--Rochester
Description The Rochester Early Childhood Education Hub works to bridge at-risk children and families with existing educational service providers.

Cradle to Career

Impacting: Society ; Business Process ; Civic Engagement ; Governance/Public Policy

Led by : United Way of Olmsted County and Rotary Clubs of Rochester
Description Every child and young adult succeeds cradle to career, through shared purpose, alignment and accountability among community partners This is the purpose of the Cradle to Career initiative in Rochester, Minnesota. Education is a powerful strategy to improve educational outcomes resulting in healthy individuals, families and community who have economic stability with productive careers and contribute positively to a civic and equitable society.

Diversity Council Education Equity Plan

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Led by : Diversity Council
Description Educational Equity exists when all individuals are fully prepared for the roles of their choice, regardless of personal or social circumstances. Educational Equity requires systems of support that result in full access to opportunities that lead to personal growth.

Rochester-Southeast Minnesota Campus for Single Mothers and their Children

Impacting: Family ; Housing: Affordable Rate

Led by : Jeremiah Program
Description Jeremiah Program Rochester-Southeast Minnesota launched its campaign for a campus in Rochester to serve 40 single women with children from Southeast Minnesota, with the assistance of a gift from the Sisters of Saint Francis, Rochester, MN.

WSU Education Village

Impacting: Education ; Adult Education ; Higher-Education

Led by : WSU
Description Our bonding request is a bold, responsive plan to renovate three buildings and environs (Wabasha Hall, Wabasha Rec and the Cathedral School) into an Education Village of the future that will be designed with integrated, flexible, state-of-the-art learning and teaching spaces. Labs, classrooms, offices, meeting and community spaces will take a cohesive, sensible form and provide space for the extraordinary preparation of extraordinary teachers and school professionals.

World's Best Workforce

Impacting: Best Practice ; Civic Engagement

Led by : Rochester Public Schools
Description School boards in each district across the state must establish an advisory committee that will: • Involve the community during plan development. • Include members that reflect the diversity of the district and its schools. • Make recommendations to the school board on rigorous academic standards and student achievement goals and measures.

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

Impacting: African American ; Asian American and Pacific Islander ; Latino

Led by : Rochester Public Schools
Description Need to close the disciplinary gap. Black and Hispanic students are referred to the office at a significantly higher rate when compared to white students and Asian students. Black and Hispanic students receive In-School-Suspensions at a significantly higher rate when compared to white students and Asian students. Black and Hispanic students receive Out-Of-School-Suspensions at a significantly higher rate when compared to white students and Asian students.

Journey to Growth Early Childhood

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Led by : Journey to Growth Partnership
Description Coordinate Enhancements of School Readiness and Early Childhood Programming

Community Beam to enable community collaboration

Impacting: Business Process ; Technology Enablement

Led by : openBEAM.net
Description Many best-practiced communities have implemented community web-based dashboards to provide a "read-out" of the health and wellness metrics of the community. DMCC's website is a push technology and not so much as social, collaborative virtual teaming site. Olmsted County, Mayo, OMG (and others) have just completed a community health study and published a report. We should go further and have a plan to be more agile and responsive in changing statistics by implementing a dashboard.

Exploring - Discovering Your Future

Impacting: Diversity and Inclusion ; Networking

Led by : Gamehaven Boy Scout Counci
Description Exploring provides exciting activities and one-on-one mentorship for youth looking to discover their future. Whether you’re a local organization looking to strengthen the community or a young person wanting to uncover the possibilities of your future, Exploring is a great place to start.

Generation Next

Impacting: African American ; Asian American and Pacific Islander ; Education ; Native American ; Latino ; LGBT ; Adult Education

Led by : Generation Next
Description Our Vision Every child has the academic, social and emotional skills to thrive in a globally-fluent world. Our Approach A seamless alignment of family, community and schools to ensure every child thrives.

Global Technovation Challenge

Impacting: Women ; Computer Literacy

Led by : Rochester Area Math and Science Partnership
Description Technovation is a 3-month program where teams of young women work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps, then pitch their “startup” businesses to investors.

Journey to Growth Plan

Impacting: Education ; Adult Education ; Pre-school Education ; Business Process ; Civic Engagement ; Children & Youth ; Diversity and Inclusion ; Economic Diversification ; STEM ; Vision/Identity ; Workforce Development

Led by : Journey to Growth Partnership
Description A strategy to address the challenges and opportunities necessary to grow the Rochester region's economy. Create a regional brand and communications platform Create Leadership Teams to oversee development of the Rochester Area's target business sectors Formalize a best-practice startup acceleration program at the May Clinic Business Accelerator Develop a comprehensive graduate-retention program Identify, enhance and promote capital-formation resources Conduct a regional workforce gap Form a coalition to create a regional talent retention and attraction campaign Pursue regional transit service for high-volume weekday commuting periods etc ...

Mayo Clinic Health Disparities Research

Impacting: Best Practice

Led by : Mayo Clinic
Description Health Disparities Research supports meaningful research to identify and address health disparities and to help ensure Mayo Clinic patients reflect the diversity of our communities.

Project Search

Impacting: Disable ; Education ; Adult Education ; Workforce Development

Led by : Mayo Clinic
Description Mayo Clinic in Rochester is celebrating its first anniversary with Project SEARCH. From the perspectives and experiences of many people, particularly the young adults who had the opportunity to work there as interns, this has been a very successful year – "I learned new skills and how to work as a team;" "motivated and succeeding and, for the first time, seeing something worth working hard at." As a result, the program will be expanded this next year.

Rochester Family Literacy

Impacting: Family ; Children & Youth ; Diversity and Inclusion

Led by : Hawthorne Education Center
Description Rochester Family Literacy is: Parent Education Adult Education Early Childhood Education Parent & Child Time To enroll in Rochester Family Literacy, you will need to make an appointment for a home visit.At this appointment, you will fill out an application and possibly set up placement testing. After the home visit, we will contact you to let you know if you are eligible for this new program.

Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan

Impacting: African American ; Asian American and Pacific Islander ; Disable ; Education ; Native American ; Latino ; LGBT ; Women ; Adult Education ; Children & Youth

Led by : Rochester Public Schools
Description Per RPS: "We are currently in the third stage of strategic planning. This stage develops a plan that addresses the action (the 'how') and measurements ('how well are we doing') to meet the strategic objectives. You are now invited to nominate yourself, or others, to be part of the third stage of strategic planning by serving on the Measurement Team or an Action Team."

Sister Save Sister

Impacting: African American

Led by : John Marshall High School
Description The club provides an anchor and sense of belonging to a group of students who often felt adrift and disconnected from school. But the weekly meetings are only one element of the club, which tries to build a network of support and accountability around the students. The club has its own rules. To be in Sister Save Sister, each student must find a mentor among the JM staff. Students are to be accountable not only to themselves but to each other. If a sister goes astray, set her right. If a sister is roaming the hallway when she should be in class, tell her where she ought to be.

Student Leaders Creating Change (SLCC)

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Led by : Diversity Council
Description Training SLCC provides students with 12 weeks of in-depth training. Defining bullying and cyberbullying Reporting bullying incidents Prevention & intervention Understanding biases, stereotypes, and prejudice Unconscious biases Mindsets Microaggressions Race and privilege Gender and sexual expression Interfaith conversations Mediation and conflict resolution Becoming changemakers Role playing: safe ways to intervene Restorative practices: healing the hurts

Success by 6

Impacting: Pre-school Education

Led by : TBD
Description TBD

Youth & Whole Families

Impacting: African American ; Asian American and Pacific Islander ; Disable ; Diversity Training ; Education ; Native American ; Latino ; LGBT ; Women ; Adult Education

Led by : Diversity Council
Description This initiative takes a comprehensive approach to anti-bias education by providing programming that addresses the needs of the entire school community: students, staff, and parents.

Youth Mediation in Rochester Public Schools

Impacting: Education ; Adult Education ; Best Practice ; Civic Engagement ; Children & Youth ; Diversity and Inclusion

Led by : Mediation and Conflict Solutions (MCS)
Description A mediation program offered by Mediation and Conflict Solutions (MCS) for RPS students