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www.alignmentnashville.org Sydney
Rogers Presented to Career Academy Innovation
Leadership Conference June 18, 2007
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Alignment Nashville has nothing to do with the
tires on your car. It has everything to do with
turning everything in the right direction when it
comes to public schools.

• -Gail Kerr, The Tennessean
• October 18, 2006

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The Situation - 2002

• The Problem
• In 2002, 175 non-profits working with schools
• No overall coordination
• All accessing schools individually
• Large dollar, people and goodwill resources being
  consumed
• Caused administrative drain
• Overall impact negligible

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The problems facing our cities seem to defy
solution. But the only certainty is that the
increasingly complex challenges exceed the
capabilities of any single sector public,
private, or non-profit to solve them alone.

• -James E. Austin
• Drucker Leadership Series

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The Situation - 2002

• The Opportunity
• Impact on school performance could be powerful if
  efforts focused and coordinated

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Goal of Alignment Nashville
To create a system to bring community
organizations and resources into alignment so
their coordinated support of Nashvilles youth
has a positive impact on public school success
and the success of our community as a whole
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..each institution is autonomous and has to do
its own work the way each instrument in an
orchestra plays only its own part. But there is
also the score, the community. And only if each
individual instrument contributes to the score is
there music. Otherwise there is only noise. And
this.is about the score.Peter F. Drucker, 1999
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Development of Alignment Nashville

• 2003 Chamber study evaluates strengths and
  opportunities to support public education
• Business and community consensus that
  alignment would create positive impact
• Operating framework developed
• 2004 Planning and launch of key strategic goals
  with school district goals
• 2005-06 First set of pilot programs launched
• 2006-07 Expansion of successful pilots
• Addition of Childrens Health and
• 16-24 year old focus

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Alignment Nashville Board of Directors
Orrin Ingram, Board Chair, Vice Chair, Education,
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, President,
Ingram Industries Tom Cigarran, Operating Board
Chair, Chairman, Healthways, Inc. Marty Dickens,
President, BellSouth of TN Rev. Sonnye Dixon,
Hobson United Methodist Church Rodger Dinwiddie,
President, Center for Youth Issues,
Inc./STARS Bob Fisher, President, Belmont
University Darrell Freeman, Chairman, Nashville
Area Chamber of Commerce Pedro Garcia, Director,
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Paul
Haynes, Executive Director, Middle Tennessee
Career Center Melvin Johnson, President,
Tennessee State University Phil Orr,
Representative, United Way of Nashville The
Honorable Bill Purcell, Mayor of Metropolitan
Nashville and Davidson County Michael Schoenfeld,
Vice Chancellor, Vanderbilt University Ralph
Schulz, President, Nashville Area Chamber of
Commerce Brian Shipp, Regional CEO, Amerigroup,
Inc. George Van Allen, President, Nashville State
Community College Marsha Warden, Chair,
Metropolitan Nashville Board of Education
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Overall Organization Chart
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Committees/Subcommittees/Projects
Committees Subcommittees Pre-K - Pre-K
Standards - Essential Literature -
Kindergarten Registration - State Pre-K
Advisory Committee K-4 - Character Education
(Key Character Traits) 5-8 - Create a
Culture of Kindness 9-12 - Create a Caring
and Supportive School Environment -
Developing Community Leaders - Create Small
Learning Communities - Increase Access to
College
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Committees/Subcommittees/Projects
Committees Subcommittees Ages - 16-24
(10,000 youth not in school and not
working) Childrens - All Children Begin Life
Healthy Health - Vaccine Preventable
Diseases Are Eliminated - Children
and Youth Engage in Good Health
Practices - Adolescents are Sexually
Responsible - Children and Youth are
Physically Healthy - Children and Youth are
Mentally Well
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Where We Are Today -Alignment Nashville

• Committees
• 12 working committees
• 9 subcommittees
• 16 projects launched or soon to launch
• 120 organizations involved
• (non-profits, colleges and universities,
• businesses, government agencies)
• 180 people in these organizations participating

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K-4 Community Support

• Belmont, Lipscomb, and Vanderbilt Universities
• Bethlehem Center
• Character Counts!
• Dell
• Kids on the Block
• Girl Scouts
• Family Childrens Service
• St. Lukes
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Nashville Public Television
• Nashville State Community College

• Love in a Big World
• Museum Advocates
• MNPS Guidance Central Office
• PENCIL
• Purity Dairies
• Metro Parks Recreation
• The Tennessean
• Senior Citizens, Inc.
• Community Volunteers
• Nashville Public Library

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5-8 Community Support

Museum Advocates
Homework Hotline
Metro Public Health Department
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9-12 Pilot Schools 1st Year Leadership students

Antioch High School Maplewood High
School
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9-12 Community Support

Hands on Nashville
Metro Public Health Department
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9-12 Career/Thematic Academies
Goal prepare all students for college and/or the
21st century workforce Structure students in
teams of up to 250 participate in rigorous
academic coursework in the context of a career
field or academic theme

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Career/Thematic Academies

• Career Academies will support
• Nashville Area Chamber of Commerces Partnership
  2010 (P2010) targets
• Headquarters
• Health Care
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Digital Music/Music Entertainment Business
• Logistics, Warehousing, and Wholesale Trade

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Business and Industry Role

• Businesses will partner with MNPS to provide
  authentic experiences for teachers and students
  (gives students contextual/team learning
  opportunities and supports FORD PAS as first
  level of career academies)
• Business, higher education, non-profit teams will
  work through Alignment 9-12 task committees to
  support the career/thematic academies
• Non-Profit teams of mental health specialists
  will work through Alignment 9-12 task committees
  to support the social emotional component of the
  freshman academies

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IMPACT of Alignment Nashville
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IMPACT of Alignment Nashville

• Greater impact from dollars spent
• Resources are leveraged, duplication is avoided,
  efficiency is increased
• Better decision making
• Collaboration among multiple agencies guarantees
  broader perspective and wiser approach
• Largest sustained collaborative effort in the
  history of the city