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Creating Opportunity-Rich Schools & Sustainable Communities

Community Development and Schools Policy Briefing

Deborah McKoy Monday, August 13, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of SF

Mission

To promote high quality education as an essential component of urban and metropolitan vitality to create eequitable, hhealthy, and sustainable cities and schools for all.

Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities

• How?

• What?

Seven Steps

Challenges 1.  Poverty

2.  Equity

3.  Rigid Silos

4.  Limited Capacity

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�� Get to Know Your Educational Landscape

Local/regional land use planning efforts should consider the existing educational options and policies that affect families

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Key Components

•  Understand local educational policies and demographics

•  Inventory educational and workforce assets

•  Assess physical school infrastructure

Strive Initiative Student’s Roadmap to Success

Quality Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods Report (Washington, DC)

School Infrastructure Assessment

1.  Condition

2.  Utilization

3.  Design�

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Engage School Leaders, Families and Young People in Planning

Ensuring opportunity-rich and sustainable communities will in part depend on the effective engagement of residents of all ages. ���������

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Y-PLAN Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now!

Y-PLAN Roadmap

Start UpFind our strengthsIdentify the challengeMeet the clientCreate a roadmap

Making Sense of the CityMap neighborhood Understand project siteInterview communityTell the story

Looking Forward and BackReflect on successes Letter to clientCollege essay

Into ActionGather inspirationBrainstorm ideasCreate a visionPlan for change

Going PublicMaximize impact Prepare presentationPresent to public

School / community partnership

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Create a Shared Vision Linking Community, Regional, and Educational Prosperity

A robust, inclusive visioning process can bridge rigid policy and institutional silos. ���������

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•  Cultivate leadership and champions

•  Adopt the vision statement formally across institutions

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Chicago Regional Plan

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Educational Analysis

SanFrancisco

Contra CostaCounty

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Santa ClaraCounty

San MateoCounty

AlamedaCounty

South SanFrancisco

DalyCity

SanBruno

San Mateo

Burlingame

MountainView

MenloPark

PaloAlto

RedwoodCitySan

Carlos

Sunnyvale

Cupertino

Saratoga

SantaClara San

Jose

Milpitas

Newark

UnionCity

Pleasanton

Livermore

SanRamon

EastPaloAlto

Hayward

SanLeandro

Oakland

Alameda

WalnutCreek

PleasantHill

Concord

Berkeley

ElCerrito

SanPablo

Richmond

HerculesPinole

Martinez

Lafayette

Moraga

Orinda

Pittsburg

AntiochOakley

Benicia

Vallejo

SanRafael

Colma

Millbrae

Belmont

LosAltos

Campbell

Emeryville

Fremont

Dublin

Novato

Canyon

Tiburon

SausalitoBelvedere

AlbanyMill

Valley

CorteMadera

Larkspur

Ross

Fairfax SanAnselmo

Brisbane

HalfMoonBay

Pacifica

Hillsborough FosterCity

Atherton

PortolaValley

Woodside

LosAltosHills

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Piedmont

Vista

Danville

Clayton Brentwood

San Pablo

Bay

San

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Support the Whole Life of Learners through Comprehensive Services and Amenities

A fundamental component of opportunity-rich communities is the right mix of services and amenities that will support and attract a diverse set of residents.

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SUN Service System & Community Schools

Multnomah County, Oregon

Align Bricks and Mortar Investments

To structure opportunity and increase sustainability, cross-sector partners should coordinate capital investments in schools, housing, and neighborhoods.

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•  Establish schools as centers of opportunity-rich communities

•  Ensure family-oriented, mixed-income housing

•  Pursue joint development

High School & Senior Center Joint Development and Joint Use

Swampscott, Massachusetts

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MXA Students’ Vision for the Future

11.  Safety: Safe pathways, streets, and routes that connect home to the local resources, businesses, and the school

2.   Physical Challenges and Recreational Diversity: Organized sports facilities; intergenerational green space; adventure playground, with a tree house!

3.   Community Connections: Library and technology resource center; performance space/theater; art galleries and community gathering places

4.   Businesses and Economic Development: Youth and locally owned businesses

Maximize Access to Opportunity through Affordable Transportation Options

Taking advantage of increasing educational options and regional opportunity resources for families requires affordable, multi-modal transportation options.

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•  Make areas surrounding schools pedestrian/bicycle safe

•  Align transit options to support school choice and extracurricular opportunities

•  Create incentives for multimodal transportation choices by students

•  Site schools to maximize multimodal transportation access

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Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Interagency Partnership

•  Massachusetts SRTS Task Force

•  National SRTS Partnership

PHOTO BY STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Childcare Centers at Transit Hubs

•  Tamien Childcare Center, San Jose, CA

•  South Linden Transit Center, Columbus, OH

•  39th & Troost Development, Kansas City, MO

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Institutionalize What Works to Secure Gains and Ensure Ongoing Innovation�

Inclusive and integrated planning should become “business as usual,” with a set of formal relationships and processes that guide wise and efficient investments.

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Technology Tools

•  Efforts to Outcomes •  Youth Data Archive

Strive Network Metrics and Accountability

THANK YOU!!

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