We Believe Alliance
Project PASS (Planning for ALL Students to Succeed)
This multi-governmental initiative will create a database tool to improve services provided to newborns to 3rd grade. The database will provide data for research on early literacy.
Newborns will be assigned K-12 student identification numbers (MARSS) and will receive their own digital personalized learning plans (PLP). The PLP is a state-of-the-art digital portfolio that makes available child specific information to parents, students, teachers, administrators, etc. http://www.student.ties.k12.mn.us/PLP.html
The following teams of service providers will enter service intervention data into the newborns' PLPs:
- Hennepin County Human Services staff
- City of Bloomington Public Health nurses and family support staff
- Bloomington Public Schools (BPS) Early Childhood program staff
These teams will access the PLP data to coordinate services, improve communication among service providers, and track interventions.
Special attention will be paid to newborns living in poverty and who are English Learners. When the children reach pre-school age, they will be enrolled in BPS' kinder prep program. The kinder prep staff will join the team of service providers entering data in the PLPs.
These children then will enroll in BPS' K-12 program. The K-12 teachers will start adding academic achievement data in the PLPs.
CAREI http://www.cehd.umn.edu/carei/mission.html and CEED http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ceed/ will mine the data in the PLPs while longitudinally tracking these children from birth through grade 3.
October 2010
We are happy to announce that Mr. Pat Geraghty is the new Executive Director of the We Believe Alliance. Mr. Geraghty's background, talents and leadership skills will help the We Believe Alliance achieve its new Vision.
October 2010
After an intensive Strategic Planning process, the We Believe Alliance (WBA) confirmed its mission statement and refined its vision.
VISION
The WBA will be an organization that identifies projects focused on helping children read by third grade. These projects will have the following values--innovation, sustainability, scalability, and most important being results driven.
The WBA will help these projects achieve success by coalescing the WBA strategic partners to provide assistance and help secure needed funding.
MISSION
We Believe Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to unite the Bloomington community and its schools to help close the disparity and achievement gaps.
The Alliance of schools, government, business, faith and civic organizations, and community agencies is working together to integrate educational, social and economic reforms to create an environment in which the most effective teaching and student learning can occur.
World Record Recognition Program 
Goal:
To help all students thrive in today's rapidly changing world, communities must close the disparity and achievement gaps between students. A united community is better positioned with resources and focus to close these gaps. To unite a community often takes an extraordinary effort that achieves unprecedented results. Therefore, to recognize a community's outstanding unprecedented results, the WBA establishes the following world record recognition program.
World Record Attempt Program Guidelines
World Record Attempt Application
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BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ESTABLISHES WORLD RECORD FOR DISTRICT-WIDE FOOD DRIVE. See details by going to the UPDATES tab.
TOGETHER WE CAN!