Northfield Promise recognizes the power of high-quality early childhood experiences in helping kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. The latest data shows that there is currently a gap in the amount of time that low-income Northfield children spend in early childhood experiences versus their more affluent classmates. In addition, local data shows that most Northfield […]

StriveTogether recently featured Northfield Public Schools and Northfield Promise in their national Stories of Impact section. Read the story here.

Yamile Hernandez wants to help children grow and develop. With the help of the Northfield Community College Collaborative (NCCC) and its new Education Fellows program, she’s on her way. After she graduated from Northfield High School in 2018, the Education Fellows program helped Yamile secure a full-time position as a Minnesota Reading Corps tutor at […]

A new co-op providing transportation for youth development and early childhood programs has come to Northfield, thanks to the Northfield Area Family YMCA, Northfield Healthy Community Initiative, and Northfield Promise. Co-op Details Youth/Child programs will share a passenger van and minibus to drive kids, youth, and families to local programming sites. Partners and local donors […]

NORTHFIELD RECEIVES NEARLY $75,000 THROUGH GRANT PROGRAM BY NATIONAL NONPROFIT STRIVETOGETHER TO IMPROVE RESULTS AT MAJOR MILESTONES FOR KIDS Northfield Promise is one of 21 cradle-to-career partnerships that will advance equity and spread bold strategies to help children and families access opportunity and move up the economic ladder Northfield Promise — a community movement to enable […]

Celebrating the successes of its 4th year, the Greenvale Community School Annual Report for 2017-18 is now available online. A total of 861 youth from elementary school through high school participated in programming last school year. In addition, 54 community partners and 462 volunteers contributed to the project’s success. Sam Richardson, Greenvale Park’s Principal, is […]

One of the primary goals of Northfield Promise is to make sure that all children are ready for kindergarten. In 2017, 66% of Northfield children from low-income households were ready for kindergarten in reading, compared to 90% of children from higher-income households. A group of local early childhood professionals determined two strategies to address this […]

According to the 2018 MCA Math Scores for Northfield’s 8th grade students, there is good news. After four years of declining scores from 2013-16, Northfield’s proficiency rates have increased by 12% over the past two years. Not coincidentally, according to Northfield Public Schools Director of Assessment Services Hope Langston, the 8th grade math team of […]

New to Northfield Public Schools this year is a partnership with Studer Education backed by the StriveTogether Accelerator Fund. The district will work with Studer to adopt a districtwide continuous improvement approach over a three-year timespan. In the first year, the focus will be on district leaders and key adopters. In the second year, the […]

According to Mary Grace Hanson, Northfield Public Schools’ Director of Teaching and Learning, the new elementary literacy curriculum was motivated by “too many kids that we are not reaching” with literacy education. Teachers from all three elementary school buildings began meeting a year and a half ago, studying various possibilities and reviewing three curricula in […]