Geneva 2020 Steering Committee

Jan. 23, 2017Geneva Community Center

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Agenda

We will build a stronger Geneva by harnessing the resources of the entire community in support of our children so that they may graduateprepared for lives of consequence.

• Welcome and lunch• Celebrate Partner Successes• Dual Language Report: GCSD Director of Innovative Programming Tracy Marchionda• StriveTogether Assessment• Sustainability Update

• Hannah Nichols and Anna Hartnett

• CAN Update• Winter Event Report• Geneva 2020 Community Report: Winter 2017• Next Steps

Partner Successes

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• Geneva Community Center tutoring with HWS and more!• Career Chats• Data update—Success and GCSD partners getting closer to deciding

on a data system• Finger Lakes Health (though a grant from Ontario/Yates Fund for

Women and Girls) will offer four healthcare career days in 2017 to high school students from Geneva and Penn Yan schools. The first one will be Friday, March 24, 2017, which is GHS’ Job Shadow Day.

Dual Language in GenevaTracy Marchionda, GCSD Director of Innovative Programming

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The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

Geneva City Schools● ~2192 students● 4 Buildings

●WSS PreK-2●NSS 3rd-5th

●GMS 6th-8th

●GHS 9th-12th

● ~229 (10%) ELL students

●NYS Regulations●Free-standing ENL vs. Bilingual Education●Changing Demographics

World Language InitiativeInitial Vision: All students will become fluent in a world language and gain global competence.

Language 1 Approx. number of speakers

1. Chinese 2 1,197,000,000

2. Spanish 414,000,000

3. English 335,000,000

4. Hindi 260,000,000

Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World

Current Vision• All Geneva students will graduate multilingual and

multiliterate• All Geneva students will travel internationally before they

graduate.

Timeline• On-going: Free-standing ENL services

• 2012-2013: Mandarin Electives Begin (3rd - 5th)

• 2013-2014: Mandarin Elective Expands (PreK-5th)

• Spring 2014: Changing Demographics Noted• 2014-2015: DL Spanish K, 1 and 4 classroom

Mandarin 1A offered at GMS

• 2015-2016: ENL Regulations Change DL Spanish: K, 1, 2 and 5; DL Mandarin K and 1 Mandarin 1A & 1B offered at GMS

Timeline continued...• 2016-2017: DL Spanish: PreK, 1, 2 and 3

DL Mandarin: K, 1 and 2 Mandarin 1A, 1B, 1C- GMS & GHS

Spanish for Native Speakers-GMS Bilingual Algebra-GHS

GCSD-Program Design●Free-standing ESL Grades K-12• Current staffing:

●2 Teachers at WSS●2 Teachers at NSS●2 Teachers and a TA at GMS●3 Teachers and a TA at GHS

Dual Language Immersion●50% English Speaking/50% Spanish Speaking

●Pk, K, 1, 2 and 3●ELA●SLA●Content is taught half in English/

half in Spanish●Parental Choice●A Work in Progress

Dual Language Enrichment● English and Mandarin Chinese

●K, 1 and 2 (~60 st. total)●ELA●MLA●Content is supported in Chinese

● Coordinates with World Language Initiative● Opportunities are amazing!

Partnerships• HWS (America Reads; Prof. Baker’s Class; Prof. Robertson’s Class)• Alfred University• Geneva 2020• NYSED Bilingual Grant

Program Evaluation-Native Spanish Speakers

Average R Average W

Kindergarten Dual Immersion 16.23 5.82Traditional 11 1.25Diff. 5.24 4.57

1st Grade Dual Immerson 67.07 48.5Traditional 25.25 16.25Diff. 41.82 32.25

2nd Grade Dual Immerson 171 78Traditional 197.25 143Diff. 26.25 65

Program Evaluation-Native English Speakers

Average R Average W

Kindergarten Dual Immerson 24.15 12.57Traditional 25.16 7.66Diff. 1.01 4.91

1st Grade Dual Immerson 82.05 55.38Traditional 62:62 42.75Diff. 19.43 12.63

2nd Grade Dual Immerson 265.55 160.22Traditional 190.33 124.66Diff. 75.22 35.56

Questions and Answers

Assessment

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Key Concepts:Systems Change: A shift in the way that individuals and organizations make decisions and implement policies and practices to improve C2C outcomes.Proof Point: When 60 percent of the initiative’s indicators are maintained or improved year after year.These two things are what all collective impact initiatives are working towards. Systems change and proof point equal success for kids.

Assessment

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To start: Geneva 2020 needs to identify and focus on 2-3 recommendations of greatest relevancy to our current work.

Pillar 1: Shared Community Vision

Pillar 2: Evidence Based Decision Making

Pillar 3: Collaborative Action

Pillar 4: Investment and Sustainability

Geneva 2020 Sustainability

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Updates• Meet Jerry Buckley, HWS Director of Corporate and Foundation

Relations/Legal Affairs• Presentation: Hannah Nichols and Anna Hartnett, William Smith

Students, Class of 2017, community-based researchers. Co-Advised by HWS Sociology Professor Jack Harris and Matt Horn, Geneva City Manager

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COLLABORATIVE ACTION NETWORK• Data is put to work in Collaborative Action Networks (CANs) — the engine behind collective

impact. • A CAN is a group of people comprised of experts, practitioners, and providers who convene

around a specific educational outcome and indicator. • The CAN is intended to serve as a learning community for network members who identify

and share best practices, develop local solutions, and commit to engaging in continuous improvement processes within their own programs, institutions, and the CAN.

COLLABORATIVE ACTION NETWORKUPDATE

Literacy CAN--Up and running--Early challenges and successes

The Literacy CAN is here.

Attendance CAN--Beginning stage--Early success--Behavior addition?

Geneva 2020 Event 2017

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YOU’RE INVITEDThursday, March 9

7:30-9 a.m.Breakfast

Ramada Inn, Geneva

Geneva 2020 Community Report: Winter 2017

Dates to remember

We will build a stronger Geneva by harnessing the resources of the entire community in support of our children so that they may graduateprepared for lives of consequence.

SUNY C2C Meeting in Albany, Feb. 1, 2017

Literacy CAN Meeting, Geneva Community Center, Feb. 15, 2016

Geneva 2020 Winter Event: March 9, 2017 7:30-9 a.m. Breakfast, Ramada Inn, Geneva NY

2nd Quarterly Steering Committee Meeting, Thursday, April 27, 2017

Thank you!

We will build a stronger Geneva by harnessing the resources of the entire community in support of our children so that they may graduateprepared for lives of consequence.

Feel free to contact Amy Jackson Sellers, Geneva 2020 Program Coordinator,

at (315) 781-3825 or sellers@HWS.edu with any follow up questions or comments

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William G. McGowan Charitable Fund

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Notes

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