Whole Student Health

DRAFT June 7, 2023

Ensure students are consistently attending school, happy to be at school, and engaged in their learning.

• Further, refine and implement a  3-tiered school-wide system of strategies for increasing average daily attendance to 95% or higher in all grades for all students (i.e. Attendance Works). [Tier 1 Universal Prevention: strategies to encourage healthy attendance for all students; Tier 2 Early Intervention: Provide support for students with less than 95% attendance to avoid chronic absence; Tier 3 Intensive Intervention: Specific support resources for students/families facing the greatest challenges of getting their child to school)

• Partner with Keeping Kids in School (KKIS/.80 FTE) to provide a full-time caseworker who prioritizes SED, EL, and SWD students who are chronically absent. These caseworkers are employed by Seneca Family of Agencies, a local Community Based Organization, and work to ensure that services and referrals are provided in a culturally competent manner, with sensitivity to unique practices of the local community with the ultimate goal of decreasing chronic absenteeism.

• Student Engagement Activities:

  1. 1. • Monthly student assemblies (Quarterly/4)

        • Student recognition school-wide celebration events (Quarterly /4)

        • Field Trips and/or campus visitors/presenters (2 or more per classroom annually)

• Enrichment Activities: Coordinate and provide comprehensive enrichment programming to capture the attention and excitement of students both during and outside of the school day/school year. 

  1. 1. • School Day: e.g. music offerings, library services, arts integration, foreign language, active-recess activities, STEAM/Coding, opportunities

        • Extended Learning Opportunities Program (ELOP)  Via ELOP funding and in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Sonoma-Marin the following will be offered tuition-free in 2023-2024 for ALL GSD enrolled students. (see Goal 3.3):

          1. • After School (2:40-6pm): No less than 15 free, enrichment activities will be offered per school year to all students to self-select. e.g. homework club, after school tutoring, ballet folklorico, intramurals, sports clinics, STEAM/Coding, culinary arts, visual/performing arts, extended field trips,etc.

             • Summer/Non-Instructional Days: 

               1. • Field trips (>1) outside of the regular school year

                  • Support services  for student internship opportunities in programs such as ‘Tinker Academy’ (e.g.  daily transportation, meals, and supervision)

                  • On-site exhibits/presentations from local agency/partners (>2 per school year) 

                  • Enrichment sign-up offerings (see above examples) (>5 different annual options) 

As a community-based school, ensure families and school staff work together to support and improve the learning, development, and health of all students.

• Promote parental participation in programs for unduplicated pupils individuals with exceptional needs.

• Provide a welcoming environment, information and resources, and opportunities to meet with teachers to discuss student progress.

• Foster parent partnerships via monthly Parent Clubs. These bilingual  (English/Spanish) meetings focus on the progress of LCAP Goals, Community School accomplishments, parenting resources, parent generated-topics, requested guest speakers and celebrating student successes. Communicate students’ ongoing progress to parents via report cards, progress reports, parent portals, and regularly scheduled conferences and parent meetings.

• Seek, incentivize and hire highly-qualified, bilingual staff members whenever possible.

• Provide ongoing annual family and/or parent events that incorporate MACS (i.e. Multi-Tiered System of Supports, AVID, Community-Based Schools, STEAM, and a focus on ongoing literacy development.) (Quarterly)

• Offer parent workshops /trainings that support intervention strategies for difficult and/or dangerous child behaviors (grant funded: ARPA, CCSPP) 

• Processes and resources for supporting the school volunteer registration requirements are routinely updated and shared via Parent Club, Parent Square, parent nights, etc. with families annually to foster schoolwide student engagement activities such as field trips, classroom volunteers, etc. 

• Partner/contract various local community-based organizations to provide bilingual parent workshops,  community leadership opportunities and resilence-centered approaches to foster a a self-healing school community.

• Support/train new community promotores for wellness outreach purposes.  (ARPA)

• Provide 6 Farmworker Clinics and 4 bilingual (Spanish) adult Wellness Workshops from 2022-2024. (ARPA)

• Further refine the school messaging and notification system so that all families, students, and staff have one platform (ParentSquare) for easy, ongoing, two-way communication access in their preferred language.

  1. • Bilingual trainings on this platform will be provided at least once annually and additional one- on- one assistance upon parent/guardian request will be provided by the school office team. 

Provide a positive social and emotional school climate that is conducive to effective teaching and learning.

• New Vice Principal Position for 2023-2024 will provide additional support and facilitation of our Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model: 

  1. 1. • PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) schoolwide implementation

        • SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) training/curriculum

        • Coordinated Services Team (CST) Process/Referrals

• Continue to  provide full-time site-based school counselor who will serve as the lead for social-emotional services (SEL/MTSS/PBIS) in order to meet the social and emotional needs of K-8 students and to make outside agency referrals for behavioral health follow-ups. 

• Pilot EduClimber online platform to provide case management data analysis to improve whole student health. 

• Continuously promote and share the district’s GROWTH Vision and AVID Mission with the school community: 

• Maintain a systemized, coordinated, multi-disciplinary services process (i.e. Coordinated Services Team) for addressing student concerns and identified needs (e.g. academic, social, emotional, health, and/or basic needs), communicating next steps to all stakeholders, including teachers, staff, and families

• Provide a variety of social/emotional learning opportunities for students in and outside of the classroom.

• Develop and implement a  comprehensive schoolwide integrated arts plan that fosters student expression and resilience skills (e.g. self-awareness, mindfulness, self-care, positive relationships & purpose).

• Continue to provide instructional staff specific  trauma-informed and resilience training workshops (i.e. Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences-PACEs and de-escalation strategies, conflict resolution practices, restorative practices)

• Encourage and provide ongoing opportunities for staff training and student expression through/in the area of the ‘Arts’. 

• Begin a pilot of the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) screening tool to help inform targeted, evidence-based interventions and trauma-informed practices.

• Organize and offer school-wide assemblies, programs, and resources that promote Tier 1 services and strategies such as emotional resilience, the celebration of diversity, self-regulation, student-advocacy, empathy, conflict resolution, and bullying prevention. (Programs may include but are not limited to: Restorative Practices/Circles, Listening for Change,  CharacterStrong, BEST, Toolbox, Safe School Ambassadors, Conflict Managers, Mix It Up, etc.)

• Provide appropriate student supervision (via instructional assistants, yard duty supervisors, etc.)

• Continue to provide, through grant funding, Behavioral Assistant for low-income students and EL students who are referred for behavioral needs through the district Coordinated Services process. The Behavioral Assistant will support actions and needs of behavior plans, assist with implementing Positive Behavior Interventions Supports (PBIS), assist with the development of Behavior Improvement Plans (BIP), be trained on effective behavior management practices, and help train teachers/instructional assistants on effective behavior management techniques. (Grants: Expanding Workforce, Behavior Health Wellness Programs, Suicide Prevention Strategies)

• Support and consistently implement School-based Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS).

• Provide onsite behavioral health therapy services for identified students (SEL Tiers 2-3) (grant funded: ARPA, CCSPP) 

• 2023-2024: Launch new  SEL Curriculum: CharacterStrong schoolwide.

• Foster ongoing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) practices schoolwide.

Ensure a well-designed physical education program that provides the opportunity for students to learn key concepts and practice critical skills needed to establish and maintain physically active lifestyles throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. 

• Beginning in  2023-2024 implement routine K-8  Health Education class visits that support the California Health Education Standards. (CCSPP/ARPA Grants- via West County Health Centers partnership)

• Administer the Physical Fitness Test each year to appropriate grade levels (as applicable).

• Provide physical education to students at least 200 minutes for grades 1-6 and to K the extent possible as well as a minimum of 400 minutes  for grades 7-8 every 10 days. 

• Provide active recess opportunities and ample equipment

• Continue comprehensive & nutritional garden programming/services across grade levels and in afterschool-programming.

• Conduct semi-annual District Wellness Committee meetings that continuously refine district wellness policies and promote ongoing opportunities for students, staff, and overall community wellness and sustainability.

• Redwood Empire Food Bank: Facilitate at least 15 onsite food banks each school year Collaborative Leadership and Practice

• West County Health Centers Onsite Wellness Clinic: Provide expanded referral services for families at our onsite licensed wellness center where students and parents of Guerneville School can receive trauma-informed services, health navigation services, well-child exams, child  vaccinations,  wellness resources and basic needs referrals.   (CCSPP/ARPA Grants-West County Health Centers).

  1. • Monthly on-site student health clinics (>5 per year)

     • Offer Age 3-5 developmental screenings (1 per year)

     • Health Liaison

       1. 1. • Sensitive Services for youth

             • SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) Tier 1 student support services

             • Human Health Development K-8 Class Sessions 

Ensure students are digitally literate and understand online digital safety.

• Maintain no less than  1:1 device ratio for student use to support the implementation of all technology initiatives 

• Provide ongoing keyboarding skills instruction, including grade-level specific fluency goals,  in order to continuously build students’ digital literacy skills.

• Invest in additional  devices and ‘hotspots’  for student home use whenever possible and applicable. 

• Continually invest in site infrastructure in order to maintain a healthy network, adequate bandwidth, and consistent high-speed internet access.

• Continue to purchase student licenses for student acceleration. (i.e. LEXIA, ISL, Dreambox, Google Apps For Education, etc.) Provide technology and digital literacy support from a classified staff position that supports: 1) Instruction in and outside of the computer lab, 2) School/district reporting functions, 3) Ongoing training opportunities to staff, 4) provide cybersecurity training to all students and their families.

Ensure school grounds and buildings are kept in good order, attractive and safe.

• Facilities staff to follow the annual district maintenance schedules and perform the annual Facility Inspection Tool (FIT).

• Maintain adequate custodial/maintenance staffing.

• All staff and partnering agencies support GSD’s  ‘Clean Campus Campaign’ by eliciting student involvement in recycling, routine litter clean-up, beautification projects, etc.