Closing the Achievement Gap and Educating all Children to High Standards - Providing an Educational Environment Where Children Focus on Learning
To provide an educational environment where children focus on learning, we will:
- provide children an array of health, guidance, social services and co-curricular activities at all sites
- provide all children a safe, drug-free, welcoming environment for their education
Student Health
Provide Coordinated Student Health Services
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Ongoing Efforts
- Providing a culturally proficient school health model that builds on success and addresses barriers to learning, including behavioral health, substance abuse, nutrition, physical activity with attention to obesity/diabetes and district-wide positive behavior support
- Providing comprehensive Nursing Services across the district
- Designing a coordinated school wellness program for all schools
- Sustaining support for pilot schools in coordinated school wellness program
Fight Substance Abuse
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Ongoing Efforts
- Providing early prevention/intervention substance abuse programs in all APS high schools
- Sustaining the current Project Success/Crossroads Program at all high schools
Physical Safety
Maintain Physical Site Safety
Ongoing Efforts
- Providing an orderly, safe, secure, and drug-free environment with a zero-tolerance policy and enforced code of conduct within each school
- Ensuring that school facilities are inviting and well maintained, and have the necessary supplies, materials and resources to support and enhance quality teaching and learning
- Distributing information on school safety programs, policies, and crisis management procedures through websites, training and ongoing consultation to staff, children, and parents
- Providing ongoing training to APS SROs around school safety issues, deescalation and mediation. APS Police Department SROs
Behavioral Support
Provide Positive Behavior Support
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Ongoing Efforts
- Supporting and sustaining School-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS) as the comprehensive behavior management framework
- Evaluating the impact of PBS and modifying support according to the results
- Providing technical assistance to all schools implementing PBS
- Operationalizing a common discipline process across the district to ensure equity
- Providing common definitions of behaviors and appropriate response to behaviors
- Training school and district staff on behavioral interventions
Immediate Action Steps
- 5.6: Professional development and study on behavior management in the classroom.
Prevent Bullying
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Ongoing Efforts
- Helping children learn to handle their differences and disputes by implementing a conflict resolution curriculum (Bullying Prevention Programs and Positive Behavior Supports)
- Training all principals and designated staff in bullying prevention/intervention procedures
- Providing small group and classroom guidance on bullying prevention
- Sustaining a comprehension Pre-K-12 Bullying prevention curriculum in all schools
- Providing professional development on evidence-based bullying prevention programs
- Maintaining a website with bullying prevention information for children, parents, and staff.