News and Updates
Data Sharing Project Partner Spotlight Interview – School Health Alliance for Forsyth County
Data Sharing Project CoordinatorSHA ribbon cutting ceremony at Petree Elementary School. Photo courtesy of SHA.Greetings from the Data Sharing Project and welcome back to our partner spotlight blog series! Today, we want to share a little bit about our newest Data...
Forsyth County Association of Educators Spotlight – April 2022
President of the Forsyth County Association of EducatorsMy Dream of Great Public Education My dream of a great public education would be schools led by highly qualified principals. Full of qualified wrap-around service professionals like nurses, social workers,...
North Carolina Has Fallen Behind on Educational Spending
North Carolina has fallen behind in its investment in education. To better understand this trend, The Forsyth Promise has looked into Per Pupil Expenditure (PPE) — a way of measuring, comparing and contrasting the amounts of money invested and spent on public...
Data Sharing Project Partner Spotlight Interview – Crosby Scholars
Data Sharing Project CoordinatorCrosby Scholars program participants. Photo from Crosby Scholars website.Welcome once again to the Data Sharing Project Partner Spotlight Blog Series! This time around, we are spotlighting our partner – Crosby Scholars! Crosby Scholars...
Forsyth County Association of Educators Spotlight – February 2022
President of the Forsyth County Association of EducatorsFCAE at the Educator Rally for JusticeThe Forsyth County Association of Educators (FCAE) is part of a three-tier labor organization that is working to change the perception of our association from being an...
Ministers’ Conference Corner
President of the Ministers' Conference of Winston-Salem and VicinityThe Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity is committed to advocacy concerning numerous diverse issues affecting the citizens of our community. One of the several current concerns of the...
The Leandro Case: A Watershed Moment for Public Education in North Carolina?
Americorps VISTA What is Leandro Case? At its heart, the case of Leandro v. State of North Carolina is about the responsibilities our state government has towards its students, namely the constitutional responsibility to provide all North Carolina students with...
Data Sharing Project Partner Spotlight Interview – Read Write Spell
Data Sharing Project CoordinatorEsharan Monroe-Johnson, Executive Director of Read Write Spell.Greetings from The Data Sharing Project, and welcome back to our Partner Spotlight Blog Series! The first quarter of the 2021 – 2022 school year has ended, extended...
Early Childhood Advocacy: Improving the Lives of Children and Families
Infant/Toddler Action Team MemberDid you know… babies’ brains grow faster between the ages of zero to three years than at any later point in our lives, building the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health. As a society, it’s up to us to make sure that...
Interview with Mona Lovett, Co-Chair of The Forsyth Promise’s Executive Advisory Board
Manager of Engagement and CommunicationsMona Lovett, who is the President and CEO of Crosby Scholars, joined The Forsyth Promise Executive Advisory Board in September 2014. She recently sat down with Tash Lane to share her perspective about The Forsyth Promise and her...
Data Sharing Project Partner Spotlight Interview – Forsyth Tech: College Lift
Data Sharing Project CoordinatorLogan Philon, with College Lift scholars.Welcome back to the Data Sharing Project blog series! This week, I sat down with Logan Philon, the Assistant Director of Educational Partnerships at Forsyth Tech, to talk about the work College...
Introducing Aurora Fulp, The Promise’s New Americorps VISTA
Americorps VISTAGrowing up in Winston-Salem, I knew I didn’t have a lot of things that my peers had. I didn’t live in a new development, I didn’t have internet access at home, I didn’t have brand name clothes or fancy technology or exciting international vacations. I...
Interview with Victor Isler, Co-Chair of The Forsyth Promise’s Executive Advisory Board
Victor Isler, who has served as the Director of Forsyth County Social Services since April 2018, joined The Forsyth Promise Executive Advisory Board in September 2016. He recently sat down with Tash Lane to share his perspective about The Forsyth Promise and his...
A Year in Review: Reflections from Two Americorps VISTAs Serving The Forsyth Promise
Over the past year, The Forsyth Promise team had the honor of serving our community alongside two Americorp VISTAs. As their time with our team draws to a close, we asked them to reflect and share some highlights of their experiences. Victoria Latham Why did you...
Community Partner Highlight: CARES Team End-of-Year Interview with Janel Sharpe, Assistant Principal at Kimberley Park Elementary
Community Partner HighlightCARES Team End-of-Year Interview with Janel Sharpe, Assistant Principal at Kimberley Park ElementaryInterview by Victoria Latham Can you describe what the CARES team is and who is on the team? Formed in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Community Partner Highlight: Mary Dame with Amos Cottage
Community Partner HighlightMary Dame with Amos CottageWhat is Amos Cottage? Amos Cottage is a Therapeutic Day Program, part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center - Department of Pediatrics serving children ages 3-7. We use an evidence based program and work with...
Be The Change Recap: Making Good on Our Promise
On April 15, over 40 community members gathered virtually to discuss the state of education in ForsythCounty, NC under the banner Making Good on Our Promise.View a recording of the event below or go to Facebook Live.Event OverviewThis community convening featured The...
Continuous Quality Improvement, Framed for Success
The Data Sharing Project — improving student services and outcomes through data and continuous improvement support.The Data Sharing Project provides many services to our partners. These supports range from continuous and quality improvement, research, evaluation,...
Recap: Be The Change — Mental Health and the Young Child
June 17, 2019 On June 17 over 90 community members came together at Forsyth Tech's Rhodes Conference center to build relationships, learn, and discuss the topic of childhood mental health and its effect on our community. Keynote speaker Mary Dame, from Amos Cottage,...
Welcoming Kathy Furr to The Forsyth Promise Family!
Interview by Glynis Bell Having qualified and passionate team members is one of the most important assets an organization of excellence can have. Folk who are willing to go above and beyond to make sure that the needs of the organization are met, that the mission is...
Be The Change: Beyond the Bricks and Educational Equity in WS/FCS Report Out
What is Be The Change? Be The Change is The Forsyth Promise’s quarterly opportunity to meet as a broader coalition of community advocates for education, to go deep on key issues affecting our local systems of education, to report out on the work of the Promise, and to...
Community-wide Priorities Identified for Early Education
A collection of over 40 community stakeholders began meeting in October, 2018, sharing data and discussing the most critical challenges and opportunities for improving early learning outcomes in Forsyth County. These meetings were convened through The Promise's Birth...
Register Today for Be The Change: Beyond the Bricks & Educational Equity in Forsyth County
This February's installment of Be The Change is focused on a key educational issue in the US that is playing out here in Forsyth County: the achievement gap for males of color. The agenda for this quarterly community convening on education is full, with the...
The Forsyth Promise Receives $150,000 through Grant Program by National Nonprofit StriveTogether
The Forsyth Promise is pleased to announce they’ve been chosen by national nonprofit StriveTogether for a grant award of $150,000 through the Cradle to Career Community Challenge grant program. The Forsyth Promise is one of 21 cradle-to-career partnerships that will...
The Forsyth Promise’s 2018 Report is Here!
The Forsyth Promise's 2018 report is here. The 2018 report details the progress of the Promise and its activities in 2018 and it reports out on Forsyth County's core community measures in education: Early Childhood Literacy (DIBELS),Reading Proficiency (Third...
Birth to Third Grade Action Network Meeting: Focus on Parent Leader Voice
On the evening of Monday, October 29, the Birth to Third Grade Action Network met at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church for a feedback session designed around parent leaders. Thirty eight agency leaders, service providers, and parent leaders met to review and discuss data...
October, 2018 Transition to Kindergarten Update
The Transition to K program is currently piloting in seven elementary schools: Easton Elementary Forest Part Elementary Gibson Elementary Kimberly Park Elementary Kimmel Farm Elementary Petree Elementary Union Cross Program staff are pursuing funding opportunities to...
October, 2018 Social Emotional Learning Update
SEAL in WS/FCS is currently entering year two of its pilot phase with the 2018-19 school year. Year one of the pilot included seven schools: Cook Literacy Model School, Petree Elementary, Philo-Hill Magnet Academy, Carver High School, Kennedy High School, Parkland...
October, 2018 Help Me Grow Update
After kicking off early exploratory work over two years ago, Help Me Grow is currently in the pilot planning phase with plans to launch the pilot in early 2019.
Data Sharing Project Update
OCTOBER, 2018 — The Data Sharing Project is in year one of a student-centric, continuous improvement pilot, funded through a generous grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust of $450,000 over two years. Promise staff are working with four schools, and now, an...