Read Fort Worth Strategic Plan presentation to the Fort Worth ISD Board of Education. Video of the presentation is available at http://fortworthisd.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=4043

1. 1
Strategic Plan Presentation
Prepared for the Fort Worth ISD Board of Education
October 24, 2017

2. 2
Read Fort Worth
Privately-funded collective impact organization
formed in 2016 to align cross-sector efforts in
support of the Fort Worth ISD goal that
100 percent of third-graders will read
on grade level by 2025.

3. 3
Achieving 100x25
• Healthy, safe environments
• Quality early learning experiences
• Excellent classroom experience
• Community supports in key areas

4. 4
Supporting Partners
BNSF Foundation
City of Fort Worth
Fort Worth ISD
North Texas Community Foundation
United Way of Tarrant County
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Rainwater Charitable Foundation
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
HEB Grocery
Kleinheinz Family Foundation
Miles Foundation
Morris Foundation
R4 Foundation
Ryan Foundation
G.W. Rawl Foundation
Walton Family Foundation

5. 5
How Does Fort Worth ISD’s Education Pipeline Compare?
80%
67%
33% 32% 34%
38%
10%
82%
60%
49%
25%
70% 71%
45% 45% 47%
51%
20%
89%
54%
0%
21%
72%
59%
44% 45% 46%
50%
17%
90%
54%
0%
21%
Comparing Educational Pipelines: Fort Worth ISD vs. Tarrant County vs. State of Texas
Establish starting line
Build a solid early
foundation
Equip for the future Support to and through college
Kinder
ready2
3rd Reading3 4th Math3 8th Science3 Algebra I3 College
ready (class
of 2015)4
High school
grad5
Est. 4 yr olds
eligible for
Pre-K
enrolled1
College
enrollment
(class of
2013)6
College 1st yr
persistence
(class of
2012)6
College 6-yr
completion
(class of
2008)6
State of TexasTarrant CountyFort Worth ISD
Unavailable
at County
and State
levels
(1) Pre-K enrollment: Texas Public Education Resource, 2012-16. (2) Kindergarten readiness: The percent of students deemed Kindergarten Ready based on data released by Texas Public
Education Information Resource (TPEIR) for 2016. (3) STAAR indicators: Achievement levels represent percentage of students achieving Postsecondary Readiness standard (3rd thru Algebra I)
on 2017 STAAR exams. (4) College ready: Percent of students who graduated from high school, took the SAT or ACT, and scored at least a 24 on the ACT or 1110 on the SAT (reading and
math) per the TEA: (Texas Academic Performance Report). (5) Graduation rate: Texas Education Agency: – 2014-15 Accountability System – 4 year Federal Graduation Rate; the percent of
the 9th grade cohort from 2010 – 2011 school year that graduated four years later in 2014. (6) Fall 2015 National Student Clearinghouse data

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How Is FWISD Tracking Toward 100x25?
47%
59%
70%
79%
86%
92%
97% 100%
37%
43%
79%
33%
41%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
%of3rdGradersReadingatCollege-
ReadyPace
Year
Fort Worth ISD: Comparison of Scenarios Against 100x25
100x25 will need the most
significant growth to occur
early on.
FWISD’s current literacy
targets drive toward great
progress, but more growth will
be needed.
If meaningful action is not
taken, only 41% of 3rd graders
will be reading on grade level
by 2025.
Source: Texas Education Agency: 2012-16 STAAR; FWISD
Note: 2017 data is from the publicly-available STAAR Aggregator for all May 2017 test takers—33% for Fort Worth ISD. This data differs from the district’s PEIMS STAAR
number (34%) screened for the students enrolled in October 2016 and for whom Fort Worth ISD is accountable.

7. 7
Immediate Systemic Interventions Are Needed
to Reach 100x25 3rd Graders
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
Infant 1 y.o. 2 y.o. 3 y.o. 4 y.o. 5 y.o. 6 y.o. 7 y.o. 8 y.o.
Spacesof
Focus
Hospitals,
Childcare,
Home
Childcare,
Home
Childcare,
Home
Pre-K,
Childcare,
Home
Pre-K,
Childcare,
Home
Kinder-
garten,
Home
1st Grade,
Home
2nd Grade,
Home
3rd Grade,
Home
Interventions
Family resources & home visits Attendance drives & mobile health clinics
Quality childcare and early education Out-of-school programs with a literacy focus
Hospital
briefings
Half-day
Pre-K: 3
year olds
Pre-K awareness
campaigns
Multi-dimensional school entry assessment
Robust progress monitoring & RTI process
Full-day
Pre-K: 4
year olds
Blended FWISD-private
center partnerships to
meet enrollment needs
Developmental screenings using
common tool and approach Reading resources & on-campus volunteers
Quality instruction; targeted PD; Mentoring program
Critical Systemic Interventions to Reach 100x25
Community awareness of literacy progress/challenges and active advocacy for policies and additional supports

8. 8
Fort Worth ISD Is Committed to the
Collective Impact Effort
• FWISD is the principal entity executing educational strategies and tactics needed to
achieve the 100x25 literacy goal.
• The district is committed to a robust, ongoing relationship with the Read Fort Worth
collective impact effort and is a fully-integrated partner.
Role
Involvement
Current Areas of
Partnership
• FWISD will participate on the Read Fort Worth Executive Council and
Collaborative Action Networks to align work with the district’s PK-3 strategies
• The district will work with partners to identify resource needs, supports and other
avenues for community efforts to help drive early childhood literacy
• The district is partnering with CANs in many areas, including classroom library
campaign, volunteer reading mentoring and early childhood partnerships.
• The district is fully engaged in the pilot Leadership Academies program and is
leveraging academic achievement data and strategic compensation to incent highly-
effective teachers to teach at target high-need campuses.
• Leadership Academies include numerous wrap-around supports around which the
district and partners are committed to collaboration.
Fort Worth ISD Relationship With Read Fort Worth

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Read Fort Worth Serves As Backbone to Drive
Community Action toward 100x25 Goal
Vision All children are successful in school
Mission
To align partners, strategies and resources to
significantly improve early childhood literacy so
that 100% of Fort Worth third-graders are reading
on grade level by 2025.
Outcomes
All children are ready
for kindergarten
All children are
proficient readers by the
end of third grade
Key Indicators
% of children assessed
by FWISD as ready for
school at kindergarten
% of 3rd graders scoring
at final recommended
level on STAAR
Reading exam
Read Fort Worth: Vision, Mission, and Accountability Structure

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Strategies Proven to Drive Change are Priority
The Fort Worth community can
achieve 100x25 if certain
conditions are realized
Incent highly effective
teachers, campus leaders to
serve high needs campuses;
support teacher quality initiatives
Implement strategies to increase
attendance, reduce mobility;
support campuses with materials,
volunteers, technology, etc.
Children are born into safe,
healthy environments and
developmentally on track
Children have quality early
learning experiences that ready
them for school
Children have an excellent
classroom experiences in early
grades
Elementary schools have key
campus supports, including
out-of-school time and books
Reduce and mitigates the impacts
of Adverse Childhood
Experiences, expand use of
early developmental screenings
Increase access to quality early
learning/Pre-K, blended funding
programs to serve 3-yr-olds
High-level strategies support
and align to these conditions

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CANs Are Planning and Implementing Action Steps
Read Fort Worth Collaborative Action Networks: Activities and Next Steps
Next StepsCurrent Activities
School
Readiness
CAN
Health/Child
Well-Being
CAN
Expanded
Learning CAN
Reading
Resources CAN
• Aligning proposed 2017-18 interventions with
FWISD
• Secure funding for CLASS initiative
• Community convenings to share EDI project
results, develop action plans
• Planning group convened July 19
• Identified Cavile Place (76105) for pilot project
Initiated “first to know” conversations with
stakeholders
• Finalizing Summer Learning network charter
• Action planning for summer 2018
• Awaiting data on FWISD summer slide trend
• Expanding Classroom Library Campaign
• Partnering with FWISD to establish protocols
for how teachers will use books
• Aligning with FWISD on priority elem schools
• Launch CLASS initiative
• Implement RBA platform to track quality EC
population, performance measures
• Monthly/semi-monthly work groups to advance
action plan
• Planning team toured Stop Six/Cavile Place
Oct. 18
• Plan community listening sessions
• Implement and monitor Cavile interventions
• Convene subcommittees on organizational
design, best practices, training and
measurement
• Build action plan for systems change children
• Developing plan to scale up support
• Community outreach to connect supporters with
campus needs
• Accelerating communication strategy

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Read Fort Worth: Data Dashboard
• www.readfortworth.org/dashboard
• Updated with May 2017 Third-
Grade Reading STARR results
• View snapshots of the district,
pyramids or campuses
• Compare data over time
• Disaggregate data by ethnicity,
economic status, language
proficiency and gender

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Read Fort Worth: Roles and Responsibilities
• Track and Analyze Data
• Communicate and Measure Results
• Engage Partners and Community
• Support Collaborative Action Networks
• Advocate for Best Practices

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q Executive Council meets quarterly, CANs provide regular
status updates on action plans
q Convene/support action planning sessions for the Child Well-
Being, Expanded Learning, and Reading Resources CANs to
develop Action Plans
q Finalize alignment on roles and processes with existing
CANs.
q Publicly highlight bright spots campus gains, best practices to
help drive home community’s support of strong instructional
progress while celebrating those responsible for progress
q Begin process to publish annual Fort Worth literacy scorecard
by benchmarking data and documenting effective practices
(launch targeted for February 2018)
Read Fort Worth: Next Steps
Read Fort Worth: Next Steps for the Backbone Organization
90 Days 1 Year
q Hire Analytics Associate and position as a consultant to
FWISD, CANs focused on campus-level data analysis and best
practices
q Support all CANs with data analysis to activate their action
plans
q Convene/support CANs for follow-on semi-annual Action
Planning sessions to discuss data and identify bright spot
practices to be scaled
q Deepen relationship with FWISD, support school leadership
with community advocacy as needed to advocate for best
practices and catalyze policy changes
q Identify and communicate CAN goals to community

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Read Fort Worth: Backbone Staff
• Kristin Sullivan, Executive Director
kristin.sullivan@readfortworth.org
• Dr. Olga Hickman, Director of Programs and Partnerships
olga.hickman@readfortworth.org
• Yezmin Thomas, Director of Communications and Marketing
yezmin.thomas@readfortworth.org
www.ReadFortWorth.org
@ReadFortWorth