This year, 32 communities are Pacesetters for their work during 2018 to support early school success.

Recognizing Pacesetters is our way of applauding and thanking the civic leaders, organizations and agencies that have joined forces to build brighter futures for children in their communities,” said Ralph Smith, managing director of CGLR. “We are learning with them and from them what it takes to move the needle and close the gap. Mobilized communities — like these Pacesetters — are essential to ensuring school success.”

Each year, CGLR uses its Pacesetter Honors to highlight communities that report making measurable progress on key indicators of early school success. These communities serve as proof points and represent the “leading edge” of innovation, impact and improvement within the GLR Network, currently comprised of more than 300 communities, representing 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Alberta, Canada.

2018 COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS PACESETTERS

Pacesetters in Achieving Bigger, Better Outcomes
The following GLR communities are demonstrating population-level progress in one or more of the four key progress indicators for low-income children (school readiness, school attendance, summer learning and/or grade-level proficiency in K–3 reading and/or math). Once you click on a community’s  name, navigate to it on the map to see data visualizations of their progress.

Pacesetters in Making Game-Changing Impacts and Fixing the Brakes on Progress
The following GLR communities are proof points in tackling one or more of the following:

— Reducing fragmentation by aligning, linking, stacking and bundling the most proven and promising strategies, programs and practices in the right dosage, duration and sequence. Read the Pacesetter stories.
— Building stronger data-sharing agreements and partnerships that result in community-wide efforts to establish baselines, set targets, track progress, disaggregate for
subgroups, create early warning and response systems, tailor strategies and ensure shared accountability. Read the Pacesetter stories.
— Focusing on funder collaboration and co-investment on a shared set of priorities and intended results. Read the Pacesetter stories.
— Strengthening cross-sector (public/private/social services) collaboration, interagency partnerships and community-wide mobilization. Read the Pacesetter stories.

Click on the Pacesetter story links above to read the collection of community efforts in each area. 

Pacesetters in Building the Community Learning for Impact & Improvement Platform (CLIP)
The following GLR communities are engaging more deeply in learning from and with their colleagues across the GLR Network through CLIP, an online platform powered by CGLR to lower the barriers and costs associated with spreading information about what’s working, why and under what conditions.  Once you click on a community’s  name, navigate to it on the map to see an activity snapshot.