Goal 3: Foster a safe, respectful and responsible school district culture that ensures the social and emotional well being for each student.
Ensure families and school staff work together to support and improve students' learning, development, and health. In addition, promote parental participation in programs for low income, English learner, foster youth pupils, and students with special needs.
Communication: Continue weekly communication with parents through Parent Square, Aeries Communications and other forms of electronic communication. Use Bilingual staff to assist with interpretation and translation services at all levels of communications including, parent meetings and advisory committees, Site Councils, DELAC, School Board Meetings and other school committees. Increase bilingual efficacy of staff by sponsoring or supporting training and resources for improving Spanish language skills. Continue to partner with Anderson Valley Advertiser (digital and hard copy) to communicate with families and the community.
Communicate Student Progress: Continue to implement the current 6 year Personal Learning Plans for each AVHS student to review student progress and engage parents in student academic progress.. Support the parent-student-teacher connection through ongoing communication of progress on Personal Learning Plans with parents in addition to two in person meetings per year.. At AVES, offer Parent Teacher Conferences two times per year, access to Aeries Parent Portal and evening activities such as: Back to School Night, Family Arts Night, and Open House to review student progress.
Events: Provide opportunities for parents and families to participate in school functions through volunteer opportunities and extracurricular activities and opportunities for parents on supporting student academic success by creating supportive home environments for student learning.
Improve social, emotional and academic outcomes for all students by utilizing Tier 1 Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) and restorative practices at all grade levels. Establish a District-wide PBIS team that aligns K-12 behavior education for all students, provides proper release time for teams to collaborate and develop trainings for all staff.
Establish and implement positive reward systems (student store, rewards center, etc)
Ensure proper supervision of students before school, at lunch, during recess and after school. Supervisory staff are trained in proper safety and PBIS procedures. Establish systems and procedures to ensure effective discipline strategies (accountability systems, in-house suspensions, reflective detention, community service)
Support students' social/emotional development.
Primary Intervention Program (PIP): Offer Primary Intervention Program (PIP) supported with counseling for district students, through mental health funding and through Redwood Children Services, with family support as needed.
Well Being Weekly: Teachers present the Well Being Weekly to develop empathy, impulse control and conflict management skills in students K-6 grade for 30 minutes weekly.
Provide counseling and mental health services to all students as needed or requested. Collaborate with outside agencies (such as Keystone Therapies) to provide services that are not provided internally due to staffing limitations.
Ensure opportunities for learning about and developing healthy lifestyles.
Physical Fitness: Physical education provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for healthy active living, physical fitness, sportsmanship, self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence. Students in grades K-8 receive a minimum of 30 minutes of Physical Education daily (K-6) or 400 minutes bi-weekly (7-8).
Nutrition Education: Healthy eating has been linked in studies to improved learning outcomes and helps ensure that students are able to reach their potential. Provide nutrition education for students in grades K-6 including garden activities and lunchtime support for helping students make healthy food choices.
Prevention programs: Offer substance abuse education programs and health classes
Drug and Alcohol Prevention: Provide Drug and Alcohol counselor three days per week (K-12). In partnership with the Health Center, provide on demand drug testing and vape detectors.
Anderson Valley Health Center: Continue to foster collaborative partnerships with the Anderson Valley Health Center (vaccination, COVID testing, other needs of the community) and support capacity building within the Health Center (MFT, etc)
Analyze the extent to which the school community is respectful and accepting of all ethnic, racial, religious, sexual-orientation, and gender-identity and gender expression persons. Develop and implement a plan based on this analysis.
Support and implement preschool inclusion
Deferred Maintenance: Update items, to the extent possible, to ensure the health and safety of all students (septic, water systems, heaters, HVAC systems, fire valve systems, asphalt, shop updates).
Bond Measure
Facilities Improvement
Explore onsite housing for new teachers
Adding washing/dryer access for families.
Upgrading libraries
Replace solar inverters
Continue to foster a strong sense of community within the schools, the district and community at large