Collaborative Action
We convene, facilitate and support Action Teams to improve one or more of the population level outcomes on our Youth Outcome Dashboard. Right now, we are focused on improving our Kindergarten Readiness and Early Grade Reading outcomes.
Learn more about our Reading for the Future initiative here.
IMPACT STORY
Action Team Impact: Early Childhood System of Care
IMPACT STORY
Action Team Impact: Graduation Task Force
2025 Collaborative Action Priorities
READING FOR THE FUTURE INITIATIVE
Collaborative Action Teams
Reading for the Future Strategy Team
Change takes process and strategy. This team is focused on structure, direction, and cohesion for the Reading for the Future Initiative and its current and future action teams.
Reading Begins at Birth Action Team
Healthy readers start early. This team is focused on changing systems of support for parents to feel empowered to get their child ready to read before Kindergarten.
Business Pledge Action Team
This team will engage local businesses to commit to and invest in early literacy and look at new ways to support their employees in helping their children gain literacy skills.
Get Lit Action Team
It takes our entire community to support young readers. This team is focused on igniting a spark across our community on the importance of early literacy.
Community Engagement
- Host literacy learning sessions and conversations with our community
- Host showings and discussion on The Right to Read documentary
- Include community in the design and development of an Early Literacy Dashboard
What is Collaborative Action?
Collaborative Action is one pillar of our Collective Impact Partnership. It involves the staff of our Collective Impact Partnership convening, facilitating and supporting Collaborative Action Teams to improve one or more of the population level outcomes on our Youth Outcome Dashboard.
What is an Action Team? A Collaborative Action Team is a group of individuals and organizations who are convening and facilitated through a Collaborative Improvement Process to affect change.
Right now, we are focused on improving our Kindergarten Readiness and Early Grade Reading outcomes through our Reading for the Future Initiative.
Action Teams focus on changing systems.
Systems can be tiny. For example, a family is a system. Systems can be organizations, like Achieve Brown County or a school district. Our Collaborative Improvement Approach is focused on the biggest, most complex systems — communities.
Systems change is identifying bright spots and barriers in a system and then working to scale the bright spots and eliminate the barriers so that more children, families and individuals can thrive. Over time, this creates shifts to practices, policies, resources and power structures, which ultimately changes the system.
Our Action Teams use the StriveTogether Collaborative Improvement process.
StriveTogether is a national network that partners with nearly 70 communities across the country, including Achieve Brown County, to provide coaching, resources and rigorous approaches to create opportunities and close gaps in education, housing and so much more. StriveTogether’s collaborative improvement methodology helps communities like ours work toward better outcomes for every child.