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Creating the Conditions for Learning: Transforming School Culture & Climate Jody London, Director, Board of Education Curtiss Sarikey, Deputy Chief. The Goal: ALL Students College, Career, and Community Ready!. Not Thriving has a Cost for our Students!.
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Creating the Conditions for Learning: Transforming School Culture & ClimateJody London, Director, Board of EducationCurtiss Sarikey, Deputy Chief
The Goal: ALL Students College, Career, and Community Ready!
Not Thriving has a Cost for our Students! • Unemployment Rate 33% Higher Than National Average (2012, Bureau of Labor Statistics) • In 2011, Dropouts 18-24 Twice as Likely to Live in Poverty(2010 US Census) • Average Dropout Earned $10,386 less on Average Than a High School Graduate, and $36,424 Less Than College Graduates with 4-Year Degree (2010 US Census) • US Could Save Approx. $17 Billion a Year in Healthcare Costs if All Students Graduated (Based on Correlation between Dropouts on Medicare and Higher Risk Factors) • Dropouts 16-24 63 times more likely to Be Incarcerated than Graduates (Northeastern University 2009) • 82% of all Inmates Never Graduated High School(Northeastern Univ. 2009)
Targeted Universalism Calling Out African-American Male Achievement
School as a Protective Factor and as a Resilient Context • Connection • Academic Success • Supported Transitions • Positive Relationships With Adults And Peers • Caring Interactions • Social Emotional Learning • Positive Interactions With Pro-social (Not, Anti-social) Peers • Stability • Positive Approaches To Disciplinary Infractions & • Services and Supports David Osher, PhD, American Institutes of Research
Three-tiered Model of Behavioral and Academic Support Systems
Whole School Restorative Justice Supported Re-entry, Welcome Circles, Circles of Support & Accountability (COSA) Community Conferencing, Conflict Mediation , Harm Circles Tier 3 Re-entry Community Building Circles, Restorative Conversations, Social-Emotional Learning & Leadership Tier 2 Non-punitive Response to harm Tier 1 Relationships
OUSD Integrated Model Group counseling/support to staff & family; Coordinated referral process with follow-up; monitoring; targeted health education & screenings
Positive Data Trends Cohort Dropout Rate: 2011-2013 Cohort Graduation Rate: 2011-2013 +8.1% -9.0% 2011: 60.7% 2012: 62.6% 2013: 66.8% 2011: 27.6% 2012: 24.7% 2013: 21.1% 2011-2013 Change: -9.0% 2011-2013 Growth: +8.1% Suspension Rate: 2011-2013 A-G Completion: 2011-2013 +4.1% 2011: 39.2% 2012: 42.3% 2013: 43.3%
2013-14 Suspensions Students with Disabilities In 2013-14, the suspension rate for students with disabilities was double the rate for all students.
Attendance • In 2013-14, chronically absent students missed • 124,335 school days • $5.5M in lost state funding
“A school can create a coherent environment, a climate, more potent than any single influence – teachers, class, family, neighborhood, so potent that for at least 6 hours a day it can override almost everything else in the lives' of children.”- Ron Edmunds
Thank You! www.ousd.k12.ca.us www.thrivingstudents.org http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/Page/9835 (Family,Schools, and Community Partnerships web page) Jody London Director, Board of Education 510-459-0667 jody.london@ousd.k12.ca.us Curtiss Sarikey Deputy Chief, Community Schools and Student Services 510-273-1500 curtiss.sarikey@ousd.k12.ca.us