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Submitted by Bill Fulton on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 8:57am

Denver NE Children’s Zone Accountability Committee Meeting
Nov. 19, 2009
The Civic Canopy

Agenda
• Intros
• Imagine what accountablity is
• Committee purpose and focus
• The road ahead - what we'll do
• Next actions

I. Hopes
• Data-driven decisions to better outcomes
• To explore, learn what we can do together
• Better results for kids
• Intersections - kid-centric and data-driven
• Share existing databases (from DPS)
• All children deserve our very best
• Learn more about what we can do together - move from talk to action
• Come to agreements on language that works for us

II. If these hopes for results-based accountability came true in the Children’s Zone, what would it look like? What would you see?

Foundation of a Shared Accountability Team
Coherence - clarity, so what? Who cares?
Commitment - leadership, partners, sfaff, community
Deep community ownership of accountability
Parents as accountable as kids
Connect between the non-testing and testing worlds

Movement on Agreed Upon Key Indicators
Kids enter prepared for school
Increase literacy in early years
Kids leave prepared for college

A Culture of Learning and Honest Communication
Tough conversations about what is working and what is not
Identify quality supports
Collaboration - Intentional
Kinder, Gentler IED process

A Sustaining System that is Intersectional
Community system is self-sustaining

III. Committee Purpose and Focus—What should this committee focus on? What is our charge?
• Oversee the data-driven piece of the RFP
• Develop, with community/parent committee, a set of indicators that are owned by the community
• Facilitate selection and development of data tracking tools that people can use
• Monitor/manage services matrix in terms of collaboration
• Ensure communication around data is accessible, in context to community

Potential action item - hold a community retreat (diverse neighbors collective) to make people aware of the history and values of our neighborhoods. We can build the idea of measurement and indicators into this event

IV. Closing Thoughts
• Prius-like MPG indicator to keep us focused daily on the most important things, we adjust our behavior based on feedback
• Intersections of race, class, gender, etc.
• Use of data
• Review model , staying children centered,
• Get clarity across the effort on our model of change
• Like the way this is shaping up -that its not happening in a vacuum
• Feels more concrete, glad we're moving forward

In Attendance: 
Kristy Miller, CityWILD Drew O’Connor, The Civic Canopy Matt Barry, Piton Rob Stein, Manual High School Nita Mosby Henry, The Kaleidoscope Project Jill Lynch, ELK Sue Tripati, United Way, MC-D John Crawford, Denver Schools Early Education Bill Fulton, The Civic Canopy Lisa Calderon, INCITE
Next Actions: 
• Share out existing efforts around indicators • Plan out a community engagement process around these kinds of indicators (both expert system and expert grassroots) - plan jointly with parent/community engagement • Discuss ways for partners to share data - explain what data we use, how we use it, ETC • Exploring network models of learning - show and tell of various system indicators
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