In 2001, the Association of Alaska School Boards received funding through the No Child Left Behind Act’s Alaska Native Education Program to provide technical assistance and support to communities across Alaska to engage adults in creating positive changes to promote the academic progress and overall wellbeing of their young people. The result was the Initiative for Community Engagement (Alaska ICE). In late 2004, AASB engaged the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to conduct a longitudinal evaluation of its Alaska ICE programs.

The purpose of this report is to provide an independent evaluation of what Alaska ICE has and has not achieved through its efforts, and to identify best practices that have emerged from this work.