Greetings Achieve Escambia! We hope the weeks since the Community Summit have gone well for you. While there haven’t been any major Achieve Escambia meetings since the Community Summit, the work of Achieve Escambia continues on! What is Achieve Escambia? For many of us, this collective impact effort is a new approach to solving a complex, systematic problem. The goal of Achieve Escambia is not to tell others in our community how to do their job. It’s simply to align the efforts educators, non-profits, businesses, the faith community, parents and students. By working collectively, we can complement efforts rather than complicate them… and out students are the ones who will benefit! Where are we at in the process? As you have heard during the Community Summit, this is a long term process. As too many of us have experienced in the past, quick fixes are exciting but haven’t proven to sustain the change we need. Achieve Escambia is building the foundation for moving this collective impact effort forward in a sustainable, purposeful manner. Our next step is to stand up the Leadership Council for Achieve Escambia. The goal for that council is to be diverse and inclusive. That council will continue to build out other governance components of the effort and solidify community feedback on which cradle to career outcome area we move forward on first through the work of a collective action network. In the coming weeks the job posting for the Partnership Director will be posted in a variety of places The goal is to have the Partnership Director hired by late summer. What can you do? Stay engaged. Reading this email is the first step! Have you liked us on yet? If you haven’t visited our Facebook page, you’ll find some great information there, including videos from the Community Summit. You can also tell a friend about Achieve Escambia! We’ve attached a five page brief that can help you understand and explain what this effort is all about. We value everyone in the greater Pensacola community who has a heart for improving education and workforce and we will need your input and help as we work to align efforts. The goal remains the same, to help our children achieve, cradle to career. The working group and communications team is looking at how we can best get our full Achieve Escambia website up and running. Thank you for being part of this effort… it’s a marathon and we hope you stick with us along the journey!
Greetings Achieve Escambia! We hope the weeks since the Community Summit have gone well for you. While there haven’t been any major Achieve Escambia meetings since the Community Summit, the work of Achieve Escambia continues on! What is Achieve Escambia? For many of us, this collective impact effort is a new approach to solving a complex, systematic problem. The goal of Achieve Escambia is not to tell others in our community how to do their job. It’s simply to align the efforts educators, non-profits, businesses, the faith community, parents and students. By working collectively, we can complement efforts rather than complicate them… and out students are the ones who will benefit! Where are we at in the process? As you have heard during the Community Summit, this is a long term process. As too many of us have experienced in the past, quick fixes are exciting but haven’t proven to sustain the change we need. Achieve Escambia is building the foundation for moving this collective impact effort forward in a sustainable, purposeful manner. Our next step is to stand up the Leadership Council for Achieve Escambia. The goal for that council is to be diverse and inclusive. That council will continue to build out other governance components of the effort and solidify community feedback on which cradle to career outcome area we move forward on first through the work of a collective action network. In the coming weeks the job posting for the Partnership Director will be posted in a variety of places The goal is to have the Partnership Director hired by late summer. What can you do? Stay engaged. Reading this email is the first step! Have you liked us on yet? If you haven’t visited our Facebook page, you’ll find some great information there, including videos from the Community Summit. You can also tell a friend about Achieve Escambia! We’ve attached a five page brief that can help you understand and explain what this effort is all about. We value everyone in the greater Pensacola community who has a heart for improving education and workforce and we will need your input and help as we work to align efforts. The goal remains the same, to help our children achieve, cradle to career. The working group and communications team is looking at how we can best get our full Achieve Escambia website up and running. Thank you for being part of this effort… it’s a marathon and we hope you stick with us along the journey!
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