P16PLUS COUNCIL OF GREATER BEXAR COUNTY FOUNDATION INC

Excel Beyond the Bell San Antonio is a collective impact initiative of over thirty out-of-school time (OST) providers with a vision to make San Antonio the best place for students to learn, grow, and thrive. P16Plus was selected in April 2015 to provide database and reporting services for the Education Success Scorecard. P16Plus coordinated the MOU process with participating school districts, trained participants, collected and analyzed student-level data, and produced an end-of-year report for school year 2014-2015 on academic indicators of students in participating agencies. P16Plus helps program providers learn about the students they serve by sharing summary data on important academic indicators, including attendance, test scores, grade retention, disciplinary incidents, and the Search Institute’s Developmental Assets Profile, an assessment of social and emotional skills.

In October 2014, San Antonio Mayor Ivy R. Taylor accepted President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Challenge, a call to action to encourage local communities to work together to close opportunity gaps still faced by boys and young men of color, including Hispanic, African American, Native American, and Asian American males. My Brother’s Keeper San Antonio (MBKSA) is led by a Steering Committee of local experts in youth and community development and works closely with local partners to assess needs, identify proven practices, and establish collective priorities, with P16Plus as the backbone organization. The MBKSA Action Plan includes four pillars, which are aligned with MBK national milestones: high school completion, post-secondary attainment, workforce development, and reducing violence and recidivism. Four Action Networks focus on each pillar and provide an opportunity for local stakeholders to share insights and work together toward shared goals.

The San Antonio Youth Commission (SAYC) is comprised of 22 high school youth leaders—two members from each City Council district and two Mayoral appointees. Each Commissioner is selected for a two-year term and meets monthly to plan events and programs that give voice to the concerns of San Antonio’s youth, facilitated by P16Plus staff. Students are the primary catalysts for change within SAYC and are committed to serving with professional communication, compassionate action, and selfless service in order to truly follow a model of servant leadership.

Diplomás is a collective impact effort to increase college attainment for Latino students in San Antonio. The project unites 16 cross-sector partners, including five school districts, three higher education institutions, and a number of community based organizations and local chambers of commerce. The collaborative integrates existing programs and partnerships into a systemic approach to improve college readiness, access, persistence and attainment for Latino students. The project offers partners an opportunity to make data-driven decisions on interventions and share best practices to ensure that all students succeed.

P16Plus uses the StriveTogether collective impact framework to effect cradle-to-career change in Bexar County. As data in an essential part of the framework, P16Plus has built capacity in education-related data services. P16Plus has built trust with school districts and higher education institutions, which have representation on the P16Plus Board of Directors and Data Support Council. Education data specialists from seven school districts, four institutions of higher education and multiple community-based organizations review and provide guidance on P16Plus data initiatives. The P16Plus data team specializes in sourcing, analyzing, and reporting data to facilitate the continuous improvement of education-related initiatives. P16Plus creates and maintains an annual Community Impact Report Card and provides visualizations of additional indicators on its website, www.p16plus.org/results.