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