HANNAH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
3001 BRIDGEWAY SUITE 442, SAUSALITO, CA 94965 www.thehannahproject.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of the Hannah Project Partnership is to boost the academic proficiency and college attendance of Marin City and other low income youth of color by working in partnership to promote a community culture that encourages achievement and equips families and students with knowledge,skills, and strategies to fulfill their dreams and ambitions.

The Hannah CDF Freedom School is a partnership between the Children's Defense Fund , the Hannah Project and other community partners to provide six weeks of full-day summer enrichment and literacy programming to students in elementary and middle school grades. In 2018, Hannah Freedom School expanded to accommodate students in grades K-2, and operated under the collaborative name Summersion. Hannah headed the five member collaborative and was responsible for recruitment , administration, and the morning integrated reading program. Afternoon activities included: Boys and Girls Group led by volunteer mentors and a school psycholodgist; Social Justice Interest Clubs on the topics of Immigration, Gentrification, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, and Voting; Creation of Freedom School Yearbook; Drumming Circle with food from Nigeria (Jolof Rice) and Trinidad (Pelau) as part of our Taste of Culture event; Fused Glass Workshop - I MADE IT ! GLASS; Lego Engineering Workshop conducted by Play Well TEKnologies; Middle school partnership with National Parks Service including field trips to Muir Woods and Alcatraz; Play Marin activities (e.g. tennis, swimming, lacrosse, cycling, basketball, soccer, etc.). In total 132 students were served, 84 of them enrolled in grades 3-8. This increase in overall enrollment represented an 130% increase over the previous year In terms of children's reading achievement, children enrolled in The Hannah Project CDF Freedom Schools program completed pre- and post-tests and demonstrated an average increase in instructional reading levels of one year and five months. Most children (90.9%) maintained or gained in instructional reading levels and did not experience summer learning loss. Surveys completed by students showed positive changes in their attitudes and character skills . Children were ready to participate in social action, demonstrated self-empowerment, and became more engaged in academic activities after participation in the CDF Freedom Schools program.

The Hannah Project had several key accomplishments under its Educational Services components. Hannah held two Equity In Action workshops focused on institutional biases and programs that support black male achievement. In addition to that, Hannah began a new program emphasis focused on parent education and advocacy. The Hannah Empowered Parents Program (HEPP) is underwritten by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and was organized in the fall of 2018 to strengthen the communication, collaboration, set of parents in order to help advance their employability and bolster their ability to support their children's education. Centered around personal, workforce, and democracy related skills development, HEPP training wove these threads together into a cogent curriculum built around small group discussion and civic engagement practice. The training involved a weekly four-hour session over a twenty-two-week period from mid-October to May. In addition to the discussions, the civic engagement portion of HEPP exposed parents to community leaders, school board and other community meeting processes, as well as gave participants the opportunity to interact directly in volunteer activities, event planning, and public speaking. HEPP parents participated conducted personal inventories, set goals for themselves and their children, created a community priorities survey, participated in monthly school board and school site council meetings, an organized family night activities . Long term, it is expected that participation in HEPP will help parents improve positive parent-child interactions; increase children's participation in academic support programs. expand the capacity of parents as change agents for children; develop a supportive parental community; and foster increased utilization of parents in policy and process decisions.

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