About the Partnership
Program Expertise
Partners
Together, Partners – youth and family leaders, community organizations, funders, and public institutions – are breaking down silos, building relationships, transforming systems, and improving lives. They are doing this by aligning around a common vision, using shared accountability data to learn and lead, taking collaborative antiracist action, and jointly advocating for shifts in policies, practices, resources and power structures.
Process Know-how
Backbone Staff
By combining Partners’ lived experience and content expertise with Backbone support services in project, process and team facilitation; shared data; and collaborative communications, together Partners are accomplishing what none can do alone. Through a network-of-networks approach, in which local teams are linked together within a larger countywide Partnership, a unique and exciting collective strategy has emerged with unprecedented potential to create positive community impact.
Kindergarten
Readiness
Early Childhood Education will prepare children 0-5yrs to enter school ready to succeed, as measured by Kindergarten
cohorts achieving “Ready To Go” on the Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile
Literacy
Early Grade Education will enable K-3rd graders to master the critical literacy skills necessary for continued academic success, as measured by schools meeting or exceeding the 3rd grade Common Core standard.
Math
Elementary Education will enable students to master the critical math concepts necessary for college and career readiness, as measured by schools meeting or exceeding the 8th grade Common Core standard.
Readiness
High School Education will prepare students to enter and succeed in college and career programs as measured by school performance on the CA School Dashboard and UC/CSU eligibility (i.e. complete all “a-g” classes at a C- or better).
College & Career
Program Enrollment
High School Education
will ensure that students can
continue their learning journey after they graduate, as measured by college or career program enrollment rates in National Student Clearinghouse.
Program Completion
Postsecondary Education will support students to complete their course of study ready for a bright and successful future, as measured by 6 year completion
rates in the National Student SYSTEMIC IMPACT GOALS Clearinghouse.
Kindergarten
Readiness
Early Childhood Education will prepare children 0-5yrs to enter school ready to succeed, as measured by Kindergarten
cohorts achieving “Ready To Go” on the Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile
Literacy
Early Grade Education will enable K-3rd graders to master the critical literacy skills necessary for continued academic success, as measured by schools meeting or exceeding the 3rd grade Common Core standard.
Math
Elementary Education will enable students to master the critical math concepts necessary for college and career readiness, as measured by schools meeting or exceeding the 8th grade Common Core standard.
High School Education will prepare students to enter and succeed in college and career programs as measured by school performance on the CA School Dashboard and UC/CSU eligibility (i.e. complete all “a-g” classes at a C- or better).
College & Career
Program Enrollment
High School Education
will ensure that students can
continue their learning journey after they graduate, as measured by college or career program enrollment rates in National Student Clearinghouse.
Program Completion
Postsecondary Education will support students to complete their course of study ready for a bright and successful future, as measured by 6 year completion
rates in the National Student SYSTEMIC IMPACT GOALS Clearinghouse.
Core Values
Compassion
Integrity
Justice
Equity
Core Values
Compassion
Integrity
Justice
Equity
Their Future is Our Mission
This is why over 100 Partners – youth and family leaders, community organizations, funders, and public institutions – have come together as an integrated, Cradle-to-Career network to advance educational equity across the county. With the support of the Partnership’s backbone staff, using the nationally recognized StriveTogether collective impact framework, we are taking an antiracist stance to break down barriers, build relationships, change systems, and improve lives.
Their Future Is Our Mission
This is why over 100 Partners – youth and family leaders, community organizations, funders, and public institutions – have come together as an integrated, Cradle-to-Career network to advance educational equity across the county. With the support of the Partnership’s backbone staff, using the nationally recognized StriveTogether collective impact framework, we are taking an antiracist stance to break down barriers, build relationships, change systems, and improve lives.
Working Together as a Network
A diverse collection of over 100 school districts, community members and nonprofit organizations have come together as a cross-sector, county-wide, Cradle to Career Partnership to strengthen Marin’s system of schools and educational support services for all children.
ALIGNMENT
The Backbone Staff helps partners bring together the right people, in the same room to align around a common vision under a proven Cradle to Career framework.
ACCOUNTABILITY
With technical support from Backbone Staff, partners agree to share data and to hold each other accountable to collective goals and objectives.
ACTION
Collaborative Action Teams, guided by Backbone Staff facilitators, develop common strategies and take collective action, while measuring, and continuously improving toward results.
ADVOCACY
Partners, stewarded by Backbone Staff, jointly advocate for collaborative infrastructure to sustain equitable, systemic shifts in practices and policies.
“I believe that Marin Promise is the answer we have been waiting for – using a proven, successful model of collaboration and data-driven decision-making to make real system-wide change. We need to rethink ‘business as usual’ because it isn’t working.”
