2019 IMPACT REPORT & Ten-Year Review 2018-2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Honorable Brian J. Davis, Coley Jones Chair Market Executive, U.S. District Court Judge Bank of America

Kevin Hyde, Ronnie King Vice Chair President, Partner, Foley & Lardner Scratchwerk, LLC CELEBRATING Marsha G. Oliver, Donna Orender Secretary Chief Executive Officer Senior Director of and Founder, Orender PROGRESS Community Outreach, THE Unlimited, LLC PLAYERS Championship Anita Vining Buck Williams, Realtor, Berkshire Public schools in Duval County are Treasurer Hathaway Home Services Vice President, better than they have ever been. Our UBS Wealth Management Dr. Diana L. Greene, ex-officio graduation rate is 85 percent, and Lakesha Burton Superintendent, Duval Assistant Chief of County Public Schools the school district has been ranked Community Engagement, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office The Honorable Lori one of the top urban districts in the Hershey, ex-officio Poppy Clements Chair, Duval County country by the National Assessment Community Volunteer School Board of Educational Progress. John Delaney Sarah Pasion, ex-officio Shareholder, 2019 Florida Blue Duval Rogers Towers Law Firm County Teacher of the Year

Cindy Edelman Teacher and Community Volunteer

Rev. Mark L. Griffin Pastor, Wayman Ministries Core Capabilities

We leverage these strengths in all our work: STAFF COMMUNITY Rachael Tutwiler Fortune Carly Norgord ENGAGEMENT President Senior Manager of Finance and Administration DATA & Coretta K. Hill Vice President Jen Silva RESEARCH Director of Fund Laura Alrutz, Esq. Development Director of Policy and POLICY & Advocacy Ashanta Williamson ADVOCACY Fund Development Warren Buck Associate and Executive Director of Teacher Assistant EDUCATION Leadership EXPERTISE Stephanie Garry Garfunkel Director of Marketing and STRATEGIC Communications INVESTMENT Maira Martelo, Ed. D Director of Strategic Engagement and Partnerships In 2009, community leaders founded the Jacksonville Public Education Fund as a high-capacity independent organization that supports great public schools in Duval County. CELEBRATING At the time, our graduation rate was 56 percent — and too many children were struggling to master grade-level math and reading skills. We needed our community to rally around the cause of public education and make our schools the foundation PROGRESS of a thriving city. Ten years later, we’ve made tremendous progress. Our district is closer than it has ever been to an A grade, and our graduation rate is now soaring over 85 percent.

JPEF is proud to have played a part in this success story by putting the public back in public education. Our work on the CLOSING ONE in THREE photography exhibit at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens raised awareness about our dropout crisis. Awareness turned into action through the groundbreaking ONE by ONE campaign, which identified community THE GAP priorities for public schools and informed a new district-wide strategic plan. The Quality Education for All Fund, based at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida and Students living in poverty administered by JPEF, helped move the needle in our lowest- don’t have the same chance to performing schools and guided JPEF’s focus on human capital in our next chapter. succeed as their peers — yet. We must close the opportunity On our 10th anniversary, we want to express our sincere gratitude for all you’ve done to support this progress. None of gap by investing in education this would have been possible without you.

leaders. In the midst of great progress, we now have to double down on our efforts to close the opportunity gap for students who are still struggling. We are thrilled to launch a new School Leadership Initiative to help improve school quality in our low- income neighborhoods. We hope you will join us in this work.

Sincerely, Leveraging Leadership for Public Schools Our next chapter will focus on strengthening the leadership skills of the people closest to our students:

EFFECTIVE Judge Brian J. Davis PRINCIPALS 2019-2020 Chairman Board of Directors TEACHER LEADERS Rachael Tutwiler Fortune PARENT President ADVOCATES

2 School Facts Jax launched

Our new website 2013 Jacksonville Public made school Education Fund performance data established easily accessible to the community. Educators 2011 and parents Community leaders voiced support invested in improving for rigorous public education instruction identified the need for a high-capacity Community played Across the country, local education a leading role in states considered fund. One of the selecting DCPS Quality Education adopting more first initiatives was leadership rigorous standards a year-long study by for All Fund launched for academic Education Resource The Jacksonville achievement in Strategies that led to Public Education public schools to help Responding to the more efficient use of Fund served as a students compete in priorities identified resources, co-funded strong advocate a globalized economy. ONE by ONE in the ONE by with DCPS. in informing and JPEF informed became flagship ONE campaign, engaging the and engaged the initiative The Community community around community to Foundation for the 2012 school advocate for the In September 2011, Northeast Florida board elections, and successful adoption the Jacksonville launched this $38 around the school of the Florida Public Education million investment board’s search Standards. Fund launched in human capital to its first major for and selection of a new DCPS improve teaching community and leadership in mobilization superintendent, Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti. historically low- initiative. The performing schools. ONE in THREE JPEF administered art exhibit was the fund. seen by more than 75,000 viewers, and Schools benefiting nearly 1,700 people from these participated in ONE investments showed by ONE community significant gains in conversations. student achievement 2009 and school culture, with higher graduation rates and higher school grades. 2016 2012

3 Where are they now? Many people touched by JPEF are paying it forward. Visit jaxpef.org/ annual-report to hear New system from them through our leaders arrived to exclusive online videos. build on progress

With the departure of Dr. Vitti as superintendent, JPEF hosted our first- ever School Board 2019 Candidate Academy and engaged the community as 2017 the school board launched a search and selection of a new DCPS JPEF supported superintendent, tax referendum Dr. Diana Greene. for schools

Duval County Public Schools proposed a 15-year half- Education penny sales tax to Parent leaders pioneer spoke in pay for $2 billion advocated for Jacksonville in improvements children to public school New framework Geoffrey Canada, buildings. JPEF called Building on a focused on founder of the on City Council to decade of impact developing people Harlem Children’s put the matter to through community Zone, inspired a vote and shared engagement, JPEF JPEF adopted a new Jacksonville results from our graduated the first focused strategic leaders to support annual community class of Parents Who framework to deepen students from poll showing strong Lead, an evidence- our impact on school low-income support for a small based parent quality by investing backgrounds, as tax increase for leadership program, in human capital to part of JPEF’s first schools. in partnership strengthen public EDTalks event. with Duval County schools. Public Schools, the Jacksonville Public Library and School Leadership Kids Hope Alliance. Teachers Initiative launched Parent advocates empowered as in Title I schools led projects on education leaders bullying, implicit bias JPEF launched a School in schools and traffic JPEF expanded the Leadership Initiative to safety in school EDDY Awards into a provide professional zones. yearlong program for learning and grants to Teachers of the Year school leaders in Title I to build their capacity elementary schools. as practitioners and leaders in their schools. 2018

4 EFFECTIVE PRINCIPALS

Powering Potential THROUGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP 2,300

Research has shown school leaders have a critical impact on student learning. Newly launched in 2019, the School Leadership ESTIMATED STUDENTS Initiative is designed to improve IMPACTED BY THE student learning in Title I SCHOOL LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE IN PILOT elementary schools by developing YEAR 2019-2020 phenomenal school leaders.

5 Spotlight on: EFFECTIVE THE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE

PRINCIPALS They may never grace the pages of The Wall Street Journal or Fortune magazine, but they might possibly be the most important CEOs in our country. They are elementary school principals....It’s a tough job and the stakes are high.

— Charlie Hollar, school turnaround expert

Public schools in Duval County between two to seven months of and grant funding to school leaders have made great strides, but we additional learning gains. There are in Title I elementary schools in Duval have more work to do to close the virtually no cases of a school turning County. It also provides national opportunity gap for low-income around without a powerful leader. research to improve practices students. For this reason, JPEF is throughout the school system. launching the School Leadership The School Leadership Initiative Initiative. provides professional learning

Great schools can only exist with Why Title I? Schools great leaders. Effective principals serving low-income are more likely to retain high-quality students face more teachers, and they are also more barriers to achievement, likely to dismiss poorly performing as shown by differences teachers. According to a national in school grades study conducted by Stanford between Title I and University, students in schools with non-Title I elementary Title I school grades, Non-Title I school grades, high-performing principals will have schools in Duval County. 2018-2019 2018-2019

Four Founders Fellowships in the Pilot Year 2019-2020

The Cindy Edelman The Brian J. Davis The John Delaney The Nina Waters Fellowship for Teacher Fellowship for School Fellowship for Family & Fellowship for Leadership Recruitment & Retention Climate & Culture Community Engagement & Management At Cedar Hills Elementary, At Ruth Upson Elementary, At Don Brewer Elementary, At Brentwood Elementary, Principal Yvonne Spinner is Principal Marva Mckinney Principal Jennifer Gray is Principal Jacqueline creating opportunities to is improving discipline developing trust between Jones is developing a retain teachers to ensure practices to ensure every teachers and parents so succession plan to ensure every child has a great that parents are active improvements continue teacher. child feels safe, welcome and ready to learn. participants in their child’s when staff transition. education.

6 Powering Potential THROUGH COMMUNITY ACTION TEACHERMobilizing the community to support high-quality LEADERS public schools is a core function of the Jacksonville Public PoweringEducation Fund. Potential Whether it’s recruiting new advocates to join the movement, or harnessing their passion to 1,800 THROUGHmove public education TEACHER forward by speakingLEADERSHIP at school board meetings and contacting legislators, ONE by ONE In Duvalbrings County,together being people teacher from ofall theover year the means city and much of every more than a parking space.background JPEF has tobuilt find the common EDDY Awards ground. — anWorking elegant together, celebration that helps retainthey teachers promote in greater the classroom involvement by showing by community, the community’s business, appreciation — intoparent, a yearlong faith and professional civic leaders learning and collectively experience. turn The goal of the EDDYs TEACHERS CELEBRATED AND Experienceaspirations is to into empower reality. every teacher of the year as a teacher leader who EMPOWERED OVER mentors other teachers, fosters a positive culture in the school and spreads 10 YEARS best practices in instruction. Through the program, teachers learn from each other and from top local and national partners, and build advocacy skills to make their voices heard on issues like the Florida Standards and the salesPowering tax referendum. Potential They also receive grant funding to spend on strategic projects in the classroom and get connected to opportunities like the new CindyTHROUGH Edelman Excellence RESEARCH in Teaching Fellowship. The crowning experience is theStrong e-cubed advocates summer are fellowship,equipped with in which the best the information,top five finalists travel to a nationaland that’s conference, why informing meet with community the Duval members, County School decision- Board and develop theirmakers skills andas teacher leaders leaders. is such an important part of our work. Ensuring that public education data is easily understandable and accessible is crucial, so we invest in online tools to give parents and community members the power to search for information about public schools“Last and year, see I was district-wide a classroom teacher wondering 88%performance data to make betterif informedI’m really decisions making a for difference. A year later, OF TEACHERStheir child. SAID Research briefs, whiteI knowpapers I madeand interactive a difference to my students, my THEY’RE MORE LIKELYvisualizations TO STAY IN elevate and illuminatecommunity key issues and —education such as in Florida.” THEschool CLASSROOM accountability, school choice and college readiness — BECAUSE OF THE EDDYin public AWARDS education for the public— and Stephanie policy Bellino, makers 2019 alike. Duval County Teacher of the Year

TEACHER LEADERS Hear from teacher leaders and parent advocates themselves in our exclusive online videos. Visit jaxpef.org/annual-report. PARENT ADVOCATESPARENT ADVOCATES Powering Potential THROUGH PARENT LEADERSHIP

A cornerstone of JPEF’s community engagement work is Parents Who Lead, an intensive program on civic leadership 70,000 that teaches parents how to be effective advocates for children. Participants attend weekly three-hour classes for 20 weeks and complete a community project of their choosing with the strategic support of JPEF and partners, including Duval County Public Schools, the Jacksonville Public Library and Kids Hope Alliance. Earlier this year, eight parents graduated from the inaugural class, leading community projects such as: teaching CHILDREN POTENTIALLY parents how to advocate for children with special needs, REACHED THROUGH hosting a workshop for teachers on implicit bias, developing PARENT LEADERSHIP PROJECTS an online portal for parents of gifted children and successfully advocating for traffic safety improvements outside First Coast High School. Parents Who Lead alumni have also played a major role in the community conversation around a tax referendum for Duval County Public Schools, appearing in the media and before City Council to advocate for letting the voters decide. This fall, 34 parents began the program in the second cohort.

“This program took me from advocating for my children to learning how to advocate for all children in Jacksonville. I learned how I can use my voice to act and speak on behalf of our children and families.”

— Tiffany Clark, Parents Who Lead graduate 8 OUR THEORY OF CHANGE Powering Potential THROUGH HUMAN CAPITAL The Jacksonville Public Education Fund aims to ensure every student has access to high-quality public schools. We’ve seen a lot of progress over the last 10 years, but inequities by race and income persist in our schools. We are focused on closing the opportunity gap for low- income students and students of color by investing in human capital in our public schools: effective principals, teacher leaders and parent advocates. Through our research and policy work, we also drive change in partnership with system leaders, amplifying our impact across the entirety of Duval County.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFECTIVE PRINCIPALS DATA & RESEARCH TEACHER LEADERS POLICY & ADVOCACY

EDUCATION PARENT ADVOCATES EXPERTISE STRATEGIC INVESTMENT

9 INVESTOR RECOGNITION

In 2009, a small group of community leaders founded the according to the National Assessment of Educational Jacksonville Public Education Fund. Ten years later, JPEF has Progress, also known as “the nation’s report card.” None of this played a pivotal role in the progress in our public schools, would have been possible without the steadfast support of which now boast a graduation rate more than 85 percent JPEF’s investors. We are honored to recognize our investors and the distinction of being one of the top urban districts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.

Sustaining $1,000 - $9,999 Pam D. Paul Elizabeth Head Pam Y. Paul Coretta and Marcus Hill Investors PRI Productions ABM Services (Formerly GCA) Lee and Laura Jones Deborah Quazzo Ashley and John Adams Heather Julin-Pittman Poppy and Rob Raymur Rachels Susannah Albright Rosa Maria King Clements Read USA Bank of America Catherine and Christopher Regions Bank Marcela and Russell Beard Kirkpatrick Ryan Schwartz The Community Sel Buyuksarac William Long Scratchwerk Foundation for Nancy and Gary Chartrand Sharon Lucie Brooke and Hap Stein Northeast Florida Chartwells Medtronic University of Community First Credit Union Melissa Nelson Foundation Compass Group Network For Good Consortium of Florida US Assure Arthur Vining Davis Foundation Karla Newton Education Foundations Terry and Lon Walton Judge Brian J. Davis Gregory Norgord Eartha M.M. White Legacy Fund John Dinneen Ranga Ocholi Wicked Barley Cynthia G. Edelman Dream Finders Homes O’Steen Automotive Group Avery Williams Family Foundation Ray Driver Sharon Pentaleri Susannah and Buck Williams Duval Teachers United Ceil Pillsbury Jeanne and Jim Winston Delores Barr Weaver Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Kenneth Reddick Ellen and Jim Wiss Holly Finchem Root Realty First Coast YMCA Lauren Rueger Annual Investors The Florida Times-Union $100 - $999 Lindsay Runnels Rachael Tutwiler Fortune San Marco Bookstore John Sapora Stephanie Grant Agility Press Ryan Sitnik $50,000 and above Rev. Mark Griffin Andy Allen Kathleen and Michael Stephens Stephen Halverson Kimberly Allen Sweet Pete’s Joan and Preston Dr. Jordan Baker Deutsche Bank Tracy and Clay Tousey Janet Healy Ali Balfour Rice Family Foundation Felita Tutt Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Ricky Bedoya Stephanie Verlander Kevin Hyde Benevity Robin Wahby Jacksonville University Liz Bobeck and Josh Nugent $10,000 - $49,999 Susanne Weisman Nicosia and Coley Jones Clanzenetta M. Brown Elizabeth and Patrick Williams Jostens Diane Brunet Ashley Wotiz Baker Family Advised Fund Alexis and Matt Kane Jason and Suzanne Burhyte YourCause Cady Studios Joy and Howard Korman Karen Buskirk Kate Zarczynski Dubow Family Foundation Helen Lane Rita and Carl Cannon Florida Blue LenderLive Jeffrey Chamberlain The Hicks Charitable Foundation Thad McNulty Corporate Medical Life Publix Super Markets Charities Museum of Science & History Sunny Gettinger and Trey Csar Rotary Clubs International ReGina Newkirk Frank Denton State of Florida DMV News4Jax Howard and June Entman David Stein Joshua Nugent Charitable Trust Anita and James Vining Donna Orender Ronnie Ferguson VyStar Credit Union Lisa Page Deborah Gervin Wells Fargo Dr. Davalu and John O. Parrish Margaret Gulliford

Make a commitment to the students of Duval County and the future of our city — become a sustaining investor. Contact Jen Silva at [email protected] or (904) 575-0447.

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