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Greenvale Park Community School Annual Report
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 […]
Navigators Connect Families with Young Children to Preschool
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 […]
Bright Spot: MCA Test Results Highlight Improvements in Middle School Math Scores
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 […]
Studer Project with Northfield Public Schools
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 […]
Northfield Public Schools Launches New Literacy Curriculum
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 […]
TORCH Results
As one of the key community strategies to improve the high school graduation and postsecondary attendance rates, the Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes (TORCH) initiative recently completed its 14th year. Check out the infographic below to catch the amazing results that this project continues to see:
In the News: Community Engagement Work Featured
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation recently featured Growing Up Healthy in a short video, highlighting the success of the project in engaging parents and community members – and supporting systems changes to that benefit traditionally underserved groups.
Bright Spot: Student Data Summit
As Carrie Duba, Northfield Public Schools’ School Psychologist, researched the measuring of social emotional learning in older students, she came upon a program implemented by the Washoe County School District in Nevada. The large district wanted its students to understand that the data collected about them was reviewed, shared and used to make improvements with […]
National Designation for Local Literacy Efforts
Summer brought good news to Northfield Promise’s reading improvement efforts when Northfield became the first Minnesota community to join the national Campaign for Grade Level Reading. This project connects the other literacy programs aimed at helping children become more skilled readers, an essential skill in achieving the benchmarks of Northfield Promise’s cradle-to-career goals. Launched in […]
Career Exploration Day – A Great Success!
The theme of Career Day 2018, Think Outside the Box, offered an opportunity for Northfield students to explore career possibilities, some of which they’d never previously heard about. Held of May 15, the event attracted 63 professionals, representing 42 business and post-secondary partners. Student attendance was robust with 645 middle school students and 340 high […]