Working to ensure EVERY child in Northfield thrives!
BRIGHT SPOT
Shining the light on great work underway around the Northfield Promise benchmarks!
Social-Emotional Learning this Summer
"Social-emotional well-being" is more than just a buzzword. Northfield Promise team members know that the social-emotional component of a child's development can impact most every other aspect of a child's life.
Northfield Promise is helping to expand social emotional skill development with more than 600 local youth this summer. Find out how!
By the Numbers - We've Got Work to Do
Among those in grades 5-12, the percentage of Northfield youth who reported they feel good about themselves “often” or “always”:
(2015 Search Institute Developmental Assets Northfield Profile)
"Dream" of Latino Childcare Providers Network to launch, thanks to WINGS grant!
Growing Up Healthy recently received the “2016 Dare to Dream” award from WINGS (Women in Northfield Giving Support), a $10,000 grant that will be used to create the LCPN.
Two Reading Rockets Advisors - Gina Swenson (Teacher, Sibley Elementary) and Robert Garcia (Teacher, Greenvale Park Elementary)
Reading skills and the joy of reading both took big leaps forward for students participating in "Reading Rockets" last summer, an initiative offered as part of the Summer PLUS program. Based on its success last summer, the pilot is growing much larger this year. Read More
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Northfield Promise exists to ensure all children in Northfield reach their full potential.
Northfield Promise has been recognized as being in the Sustaining Gateway of the national Strive Together network, a group of communities working to improve education success for every child through a data-driven, collective impact approach. Northfield is one of fewer than 40 communities nationwide to have achieved this distinction.
