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Whole Child-Whole CommunityClosing the Knowing – Believing – Doing Gap
2015 CMHACY Conference
May 14, 2015
Clear Targets
Affirm What We Know and Acknowledge What We Do
Clarify Our Collective Purpose Introduce Collective Impact and The
Tenets of the Whole Child Present Whole Child – Whole
Community in Action: The CCUSD Story
Share Our Model from Knowing to Doing
Laugh, Be Happy, Be Hopeful
Happy?
What’s Holding Kids Back?
What We Know…What We Believe… What We Do
“…If decisions about education policy and practice started by asking what works for the child, how would resources – time, space and human – be arrayed to ensure each child’s success? If the student were truly at the center of the system, what could we achieve?” From ASCD’s The Whole Child Compact
Success?
“Our current definition of success is too narrow. It is time to put students first, align resources to students’ multiple needs, and advocate for a more balanced approach.” From ASCD’s Making the Case for Educating the Whole Child
Basic Needs and Success
Assets and Success
The asset concept is simple and based on common sense: young people need positive external supports and internal strengths in order to succeed in life. And, most important, they need people to help nurture these assets. And EVERYONE can be an “Asset Builder.”
Success and “Whole”
SAFEHEALTHYCARED FOR AND SUPPORTEDENGAGED AND CONNECTEDCHALLENGED
Student Voice and Success
The Gallup Student Poll: Measuring the factors underlying student achievement:
Their Hope for the Future Their Emotional Engagement in School The Quality of Their Lives
Gallup classifies student respondents as:
Thriving Struggling Suffering
Student Voice
Where there’s smoke….. Better late than…. Two’s company… Don’t bite the hand that…. A penny saved…. No news is…. A miss is a good as… Kid’s should be seen…
Research Review: School-based Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
Julia Dilley, 2009
• Health and education are linked
• Every health risk can affect academic success
• Interventions can narrow disparities
• Health interventions can improve learning and health
Health and Success
Hope and Success
Children who succeed do so when they have people in their lives who believe they can succeed.
Children who succeed have meaningful relationships with caring adults.
Children who succeed are nurtured by a culture that is focused on success and strengths.
Children who succeed have “Treasure Hunters” in their lives who have and hold them to high expectations
I am a Kid at Hope.I am talented, smart & capable of
success.I have dreams for the future and I will climb to reach those goals & dreams
everyday.All Children are Capable of Success,
No Exceptions!
A Pledge of Hope
Children and Choices?
Absolute Fact: Not a single child CHOSE to be hungry, to be sick, to be in foster care, to not have a Dad, to have a disability, to move multiple times, to be homeless, to be hopeless….
I am scaredI am sad
I am pinnedI am lost
I am motionlessI am forgot
I am unhappyI am stuck
I am trappedI am hopelessI am a nobody.
-Morgan, 5th Grade
“Kids should be seen…..
and not be invisible.”
“Student Voice”
Why Do WE Exist?“School systems are not responsible for meeting every need of their students…
…but when the need directly affects learning, the school must meet the challenge.Carnegie Task Force on Education of Young Adolescents (1989)
Our Fundamental Purpose
TO ENSURE HIGH LEVELS OF LEARNING FOR ALL
STUDENTS.
ALL. EACH. EVERY. PERIOD.
Whose Fundamental Purpose?
School systems are not responsible for meeting every need of their
students. But when the need directly affects learning, the school must
meet the challenge.
The Village is The System!
A Cliché or A Call to Action?
“It takes a village
to raise a child.”
The Roseto, PA Story
Characteristics: Immunity to heart disease
Smoked and drank wine freelyCouldn’t afford olive oil – cooked primarily in
lardBack-Breaking Labor in the in slate quarries
Crime RateVirtually zero
Applications for Public AssistanceVirtually zero
Healthy and Hopeful
They took care of their own Elderly as “the Supreme Court” The Whole Community Celebrated Together:
Social Clubs, Church Festivals, Evening Strolls Mutual Respect, Cooperation and a “kind of
joyous team spirit” “People were nourished by other people” Sense of support = less stress They virtually eliminated the GAP between the
“Haves and the Have-Nots”
“Collective Impact”
In Roseto, “…they worked toward a common goal….
…a better life for their children.”
And during this time, they sent kids to college at twice the rate of the rest of the
country!
So Why the Believing, Knowing - Doing Gap?
Disbelief? Blame? Politics? The Economy? “Out of School Factors?”Or do we minimize the magnitude of
our mission? Learning as an “opportunity?” Learning as “Pass or Fail?”
The Magnitude of Our Mission
Never in our nation’s history have the demands on our educational system been greater or the consequences of failure as severe. Beyond the high-stakes school accountability requirements mandated by state and federal laws, the difference between success and failure in school is, quite literally, life and death for our students. - Mike Mattos
Schools Systems are the “Backbone”
Know Our Kids Know Our Community Know Our Strengths/Resources Know Our Needs Take the Lead to Connect Resources to Our
Needs
Being all things to/for all kids does not mean we provide every service – it simply means developing purposeful partnerships with those who do provide the services our kids need!
Success for All Takes Us All!
“….the spread of a new approach that will enable us to solve today’s most serious social problems with the resources we already have at our disposal.”
Collective Impact, Kania and Kramer
Building Our Fleet
We must have the courage to seek solutions rather than place blame
“ALL” Starts with a Vision
Vision is the gift of seeing clearly what may be. Vision expands our horizons. The more we see, the more we can achieve; the grander our vision, the more glorious our accomplishment.
– Unknown
Success for All
Takes US ALL!
“ALL” Begins with Believing
“I Believe ALL children Can Learn at High Levels”
“I Believe ALL Children Will Learn Because of What WE Do.”
Student Success 14-15Compliant/Action Track: Evidence-Based, Systemic Support for ALL
Staff and Students LCAP Implementation: Targeted, Data Driven Intervention
Systems and Structures at all Schools for Students Who Struggle; Whole Child Support;
Focused Professional Development for Successful Systems: Highly Effective Teams, Systemic Response for Students With Barriers to Learning
Systemic and Collaborative Focus on “The Four Questions” Collaborative Education, Engagement and Implementation of
Common Core
Compelling Track: Clarity of Purpose and Practice: The Education of All Students Must Be Our Primary Focus
Success for All Takes US ALL! Ensuring High Levels of Learning for ALL Students: No
Exceptions Multiple Pathways to Success for ALL Students A Successful Child is Whole: Safe, Challenge, Connected, Cared
For, Healthy and Hopeful Whole Child, Whole Adult: Investing in Individual and
Organizational Health and Wellness
Resourceful and Responsible 14-15Compliant Track: Targeted, Transparent , Values-Based
Investments, Master Facility Plan into Action Collaborative and Timely Process for Budget Planning Implementation of Local Control Funding Formula and Adopted
Local Control Accountability Plan Engage and Collaborate with Stakeholders for Enhanced
Resourcefulness Successful, Collaborative and Transparent Bond Implementation:
Process, Projects and Priorities Continuously Monitor and Assess Impact of our Investments
Compelling Track: Shared and Aligned Investments of Our Values, Purpose and Resources
Success for All Takes US ALL All Investments Align with Our Fundamental Purpose to Ensure
High Levels of Learning for ALL Students Deepen our Culture of Needs-Based, Transparent Investment of
Resources Partners in Advocacy for CCUSD Children, Staff and Community Purpose Driven Priorities, Investments and Efficiencies
Family Engagement, Community & District Partnerships 14-15
Compliant/Action Track: Partnerships for ALL CCUSD Students and Staff
Lead and Facilitate Whole Community-Whole Child Collaborative Continuous Recruitment and Enlistment of Community Partners Nurture and Build Partnerships to Enhance Pathways for All
Students from “Cradle to Career” Active Engagement of Stakeholders for Master Facility Plan
Implementation
Compelling Track: Collective Impact; Declaring our Interdependence
Success for All Takes US ALL! Whole Child, Whole Community Trusting Relationships within Schools and Community CCUSD: A Family of Schools! The Power of US! The Success of Every Child is Dependent on Our Collective Beliefs
and Behaviors.
We Cannot Do it Alone…
Our Purpose, Our Promise
Hope AcademyHope Academy
Summer Lunch And Fun
Summer Lunch And Fun
Sandy SegalHealth Center
Sandy SegalHealth Center
Big BrothersBig Sisters
Big BrothersBig Sisters
Back Packs for Kids
Back Packs for Kids
iAcademyiAcademy
Family Resource
Rooms
Family Resource
Rooms
Didi Hirsch Partnership
Didi Hirsch Partnership
Office of School & Family
Support
Office of School & Family
Support
Culver ClosetCulver Closet
Culver NeedsTeam
Culver NeedsTeam
Culver CityCompact
Culver CityCompact
Vision TestsAnd Glasses
Vision TestsAnd Glasses
Arts &Crafts
Arts &Crafts
NFLNFL
Song andStory Time
Song andStory Time
Local Fire and Police Dept.
Local Fire and Police Dept.
Free Lunch
Free Lunch
Young StoryTellers
Young StoryTellers
Dental Clinics
Dental Clinics
Back to School“Shopping”
Back to School“Shopping”
Boy and GirlScouts
Boy and GirlScouts
Rocket Building Rocket Building
High SchoolAthletes
High SchoolAthletes
Indoor/OutdoorGames
Indoor/OutdoorGames
CityLibrary
CityLibrary
Summer Lunch and Fun
Build Your Fleet!
We must have the courage to seek solutions rather than place blame
“Backbone Organization” Invite, Engage, Enlist
Invitations to any/all who serve youth and families
Telling the whole story – Did You Know? Anchors to Sails “Mapping” our Community Resources Identifying Immediate Needs and Quick
Wins Recruiting New Partners Establishing a shared goal, vision and
project (Back Packs and Summer Lunch) Staying Connected – Networking
The Treasure Hunter Pledge
As an adult and a Treasure Hunter I am committed to search for all the talents,
skills and intelligencethat exists in all children and youth.
I believe all children are capable of success,No Exceptions!
Dylan’s Story: All IS Possible!
“I believe in me, because you
first believed in me”
Success for AllTakes US ALL!
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Nelson Mandella