Navigator Models – Rob Watson (Executive Director; EdRedesign Lab; Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Faculty Affiliate, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard) & Tauheedah Jackson (Deputy Director and Director of the Institute for Success Planning, EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education)

• This session will feature insights on how neighborhoods are embracing the practice of “Success Planning,” a relationship-based approach that connects each child, youth, and/or family to an adult Navigator who co-creates a personalized plan for action in partnership with their families and other caring adults. To date, 34 communities across the US in urban, suburban, and rural contexts have engaged in EdRedesign’s Institute for Success Planning Community of Practice to tackle issues of housing insecurity, education, health, public benefits utilization, social capital/economic connectedness, and related issue areas. We will also feature highlights from soon-to-be-released first-of-its-kind economic mobility research that EdRedesign and Opportunity Insights at Harvard have co-sponsored demonstrating the causal impact of a major national personalization model (Communities in Schools) that leverages the power of adult Navigators and relationships to improve long-term outcomes for young people from low-income backgrounds.