The Commit Partnership is the largest collective impact education backbone in the United States.
Collective impact is an approach to large-scale social change that comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from isolated interventions of individual organizations.
Commit is not just a team of over 70 full-time employees.
The partnership we support is made possible by the educators, school leaders, elected officials, legislators, investors and community members that choose to work alongside with us in pursuit of our True North Goal of increasing living wage attainment for young Dallas County residents, irrespective of race.
Our Theory of Action
- ...activated via trusted relationships
- ...aimed at innovatively changing systems and approaches
- ...so that sustainable public funding is increasingly effective at scale
- ...in order to address the root causes of unequal educational and economic opportunity.
This Theory of Action is put into practice through our repeatable model, a cycle with three primary phases.
Insights and Innovation
Our work begins with data analysis. As impacts on student outcomes become apparent, we work with our partner school systems to pilot new approaches that address known and emerging challenges.
Systems Change
As we facilitate local discussion and promote awareness of systems-level strategies that are leading to improved student results, our policy and state coalition team advocates for state-wide policymaking that leverages learnings and enables more schools to access and implement proven best practices.
Continuous Improvement
We work with partner school systems to support the implementation of best practices. Then, we continuously monitor and share data with state and local elected officials, district leaders, teachers, families, community members, and students
Here’s how it works...
Our Theory at Work
For an example of the repeatable model in action, see our latest Dallas County Scorecard report.
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