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Week 1 - Introducing the Summit
We’ve decided to try something new and hope you’ll come along with us on an exciting continuous learning experiment.
Based on your feedback and the significant amount of time and capacity everyone is still dedicating to address and survive the residual and ongoing effects of the last year, your Backbone support team has decided to shift gears.
We’ve heard that your schedules are filled with deep work …
- Adapting day-to-day to ever changing COVID regulations,
- Re-engaging students to help them complete last year’s unfinished learning,
- Launching new Success Networks and equity teams, and
- Figuring out how to straddle the “new normal” of living in both an in-person and virtual world.
And yet we know you also care about systemically addressing educational inequities by working together …
- Across systems – linking nonprofits with school districts, early childhood education with early grade K-5 success, and funders with educators,
- Across geographies – linking promising practices from West Marin to meet family needs in Marin City, and
- Across the Cradle-to-Career continuum.
We, the Backbone Team, recognize these tradeoffs and want to support your work together in a way that connects the dots, overcomes barriers, and amplifies your successes without over-taxing your capacity.
So we’ve decided to try something new. Over the next 6 weeks we will be transforming the previously scheduled live zoom events into an engaging, asynchronous experience that is inclusive of folks who can’t engage in real-time and brings us together in new ways.
Instead of meeting over zoom for the Partnership Summit, we’ll be creating a series of short videos with interactive, online reflection tools, Q&A Bulletin Boards, and Crowdsourced word clouds that we hope you’ll watch, share, and engage with on-line.
These videos will feature you, the Partners, in your own voice, as you share your insights, success stories, and ongoing challenges. We will be experimenting with a variety of formats from short 90 second Partner Profiles to 15-20 minute panel conversations to “podcast” like audio files.
If you have a story to tell that relates to the collective work of the Partnership, existing video footage to share, or an idea for how we can make this new format useful and impactful please get in touch with Jacqui or Shelley on our communication team: jacqui@marinpromisepartnership.org or shelley@marinpromisepartnership.org.
Otherwise, stay tuned and get ready to engage in new and exciting ways!
Sneak peak preview of upcoming Partnership video conversations …
The Partnership’s Journey – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Learning Happens Everywhere – Lessons from COVID19
Crossroads & Intersections – Strategic Funding Shifts Create Sustainable System Transformation
StriveTogether Convening (Oct 4-8)
As with last year, we teamed up with the national StriveTogether Convening to offer you a truly unique virtual conference opportunity. Many of you joined your Marin Promise Partners in virtually attending the StriveTogether National Convening — truly a fall opportunity to “think nationally and act locally”
Keynote speakers included:
- Heather McGhee, economist and author of The Sum of Us
- Maria Hinojosa, journalist
- Julián Castro, former Democratic presidential candidate, secretary of housing and urban development, and mayor of San Antonio.
Official access to the StriveTogether Convening has closed but we will feature some of the content on this page over the next 6 months. Contact Jacqui@marinpromisepartnership.org.
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Marin Designated as an Educational Equity Systems Change Community
Based on the work of Marin Promise Partners, the National Strive Together Cradle to Career Network has certified the county as a Systems Change community.
Racial Equity Statement
Marin Promise Partners believe that a shared racial equity statement will amplify our collective impact. Join us in posting this statement and promoting racial equity in Marin.
A Framework for Antiracist Action
Moving All Forms of “Race-Neutral” “Unbiased” Leadership into Actively and Boldly Affirming and Advancing Racial Equity Across Marin Through Antiracist Work.
Partner Resource Referrals: Racial Equity Professional Development
This is a list of partners’ professional development resources referrals to each other.
Cultural Responsiveness Summary Report
A four page overview including the results of the Leadership Council’s self-assessment effort.
Cultural Responsiveness Baseline Report
A comprehensive 43 page report on findings and recommendations from the Leadership Council’s baseline racial equity self assessment process.
Fall Partnership Summit – Week 5: Making Systemic Shifts in Policy, Practice, and Power
Week five’s Summit theme highlighted key systemic shifts that are being made in Policies, Practices and Power dynamics through short Partner videos.
Fall Partnership Summit – Week 4: The Power of Partnerships – Video Vignettes
Week four of the Summit highlighted various aspects of the Partnership through short videos of Partner reflections during meetings this past year.
Fall Partnership Summit – Week 3: “Listen Up!” Partner Podcasts & Podcast Recommendations
Week three of the Summit was all about listening to each other through podcasts.
