2018 Evaluation Report: Impact of the Northstar Assessment & Related Computer Skills Programming on Employment in CTEP Programs

The Community Technology Empowerment Project (CTEP) AmeriCorps program was created to help increase digital and media literacy amongst new immigrants and low-income communities in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. CTEP functions as a key program of its parent organization, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN).
 
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The goal of this 2018 report is to continue the work started in the 2015 CTEP program evaluation and gather updated data on their program’s outcomes.

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FINAL REPORT Impact Evaluation of the Minnesota Reading Corps K-3 Program (2017-18)

Reading Corps is an AmeriCorps program that helps students become successful readers and meet reading targets by the end of the third grade. Trained literacy tutors apply research-based literacy interventions for more than 36,000 at-risk students in Prekindergarten (PreK) through grade 3 each year.

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ServeMinnesota: MAVRIC

The Minnesota Assessment of Vocabulary for Reading Improvement and Comprehension (MAVRIC) program is a project of ServeMinnesota. MAVRIC is delivered through existing Reading Corps infrastructure and focuses on improving student vocabulary outcomes. The program’s theory of change is premised on two functional elements:

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Greater Twin Cities United Way, Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood: NdCAD-Sankofa

The Sankofa reading program is a culturally-based literacy tutoring program for children of African-descent designed to close the achievement gap in reading skills. The program consists of comprehensive after-school tutoring with strong reading and cultural components. Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood (SPPN) partnered with Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) to deliver Sankofa to low-performing readers enrolled in kindergarten through third grade from 2013-2017 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Greater Twin Cities United Way: Great by Eight Program

Way to Grow’s Great by Eight program is a parent-centric program that uses home visits to increase parent knowledge and engagement for their child’s development, which will lead to improved child success in school and life. Organizations Generation Next and Greater Twin Cities United Way partnered with Way to Grow to provide services to families with children ages 3 to 8 through Great by Eight.

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The Tutoring Partnership: SIF Implementation and Outcome Evaluation

The Tutoring Partnership was a network of 28 community-based programs that provided intentional academic interventions through tutoring to students in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The common goal across these programs was improving academic outcomes for students. In 2013, the Saint Paul Schools Foundation was awarded a Social Innovation Fund (SIF) sub grant from Greater Twin Cities United Way to examine the implementation of the Tutoring Partnership and student outcomes.

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