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Whole Child-Whole CommunityKnowing, Believing, Doing
NEWASA
October 20, 2011
From Barriers to Bridges
We must have the courage to seek solutions
rather than place blame
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…
What We Know, What We Believe
and What We Practice
“…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
The Whole Child Challenge
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)
Declaration of InterdependenceWe believe:
All children are capable of success, without exception!
A successful child is whole: Safe ChallengedCared for ConnectedHealthy Hopeful
Success for ALL takes us ALLEach of us is a key to their successTherefore, I commit myself, to the extent that I am
capable, to our shared purpose of ensuring high levelsof learning for all students
HelplineHelpline
Arts &Crafts
Arts &Crafts
BoyScouts
BoyScouts
Career & Tech Ed
Career & Tech Ed
B&G Club
B&G Club
SummerLunch
SummerLunch
Back Packs for Kids
Back Packs for Kids
Dental Clinics
Dental Clinics
Academic Hour
Academic Hour
PALSPALS
Dance Dance
Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners
Board GamesBoard Games
County Library
County Library
Summer Lunch Camp at SKSD
Basic Assumptions and Basic Needs
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.”
A Successful Child is a “Whole” Child
•SAFE•HEALTHY•CARED FOR AND SUPPORTED•ENGAGED AND CONNECTED•CHALLENGED
The Hopeful Child• 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
Why Hope?
“…research has shown that hope, engagement and wellbeing are positioned as actionable targets and indicators for future success…”
Dr. Shane Lopez, Conclusions from the 2009 Student Gallup Poll
Why Hope?
“Hope drives attendance, credits earned, and GPA of high school students.”
Students with hope are:• Engaged, highly involved and
enthusiastic about school• Arrive at school prepared and eager to
learn• Promote excitement about learning in
those around them
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
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….
A Cliché or A Call to Action?
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
What do we REALLY believe?
All Kids are Capable of Success…No Exceptions.
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.
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!
Whose Fundamental Purpose?
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Nelson Mandella
“Kids should be seen…..
and not be invisible.”
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!
Treasure Hunter?
Treasure Hunter!
Treasures, Locks and Keys
It’s not about finding
the treasure
…it’s about
opening it…
CURIOSITYUNCONDITIONAL LOVETRUSTINGHAPPINESSDEPENDENCEAFFECTIONATE EXPRESSIVEDREAMSPOTENTIALHOPE
Locks reflect not what was done FOR our kids…They symbolize what has been done TO them
UNCERTAINTLYFEAR
DISTRUSTANGER
LONLINESSHUNGER
PAINGUILTBLAME
BULLIEDNO OPPORTUNITIES
HOPELESSNESS
The Key to Unlocking Hope
I Believe in Me…Because YOU first Believed in Me!
A Community of Treasure Hunters
A “Campaign” to Connect Resources to Needs
The Roseto, PA Story
Characteristics:• Immunity to heart disease
•Smoked and drank wine freely•Couldn’t afford olive oil – cooked primarily
in lard•Back-Breaking Labor in the in slate quarries
• Crime Rate•Virtually zero
• Applications for Public Assistance•Virtually zero
Healthy and Hopeful
• They took care of their own• Elderly as “the Supreme Court”• The Whole Community Celebrated: 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-Notes
Collective Impact!
In Roseto, “…they worked toward a common goal….
…a better life for their children.”
And during this time, sent kids to college at twice the rate of the rest of the
country!”
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!
Interdependence
“….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
Prerequisites of Progress
• Community Understanding• Community Trust• Community Permission• Community Support
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.”
- Abraham Lincoln
From Believing to Doing
• A Collective Impact Mission and Vision• Board Leadership
• Vision• Ends• Bridge Goals• Community Compact• A Whole Child “Brand”
• Meaningful Engagement• Tell the Whole Story: SK Did You Know• Whole Child, Whole Community• Matching Partners to Needs
A vision that is not consistent with values by which people live continuously will fail to inspire and often will foster cynicism (Senge, 1990). Miles (1987, cited in Fullan, 1991)
Nurturing Growth, Inspiring Achievement , Building Community
“Straight A’s”
•AND
•ALL
•ALIGNED
“AND” & “ALL”
ALL Kids are Capable of Success – Without Exception!
Ensuring High Levels of Learning for ALL Students
Success for ALL Takes Us ALL
Student AND Adult Centered
Compliant AND Compelling
Visionary AND Urgent
Hope AND Evidence
Beliefs AND Data
Art AND Science
Efficiencies AND Investments
Curriculum AND Culture
A Shared Definition: “Success for ALL”• Call to Action Team• Engaging ALL Stakeholders
• Staff• Families• Community Leaders• Students
• Surveys and Events• Developing “Ends” for ALL
“Not all things that can be counted, count. And all things that count, cannot be counted.”
Declaration of InterdependenceWe believe:
All children are capable of success, without exception!
A successful child is whole: Safe ChallengedCared for ConnectedHealthy Hopeful
Success for ALL takes us ALLEach of us is a key to their successTherefore, I commit myself, to the extent that I am
capable, to our shared purpose of ensuring high levelsof learning for all students
Leadership for the Whole: “Backbone Organization”The First Meeting:
• Invitations to any/all who serve youth and families
• Telling the whole story – Did You Know• Barriers to Bridges• “Mapping” our Community Resources• Identifying Immediate Needs and Quick Wines• Recruiting New Partners• Establishing a shared goal and vision• Staying Connected – social networking
Common Goals, Shared Focus
1.Providing for Basic Needs: Nutrition, Clothing, Housing, etc.
2.Health: Nutrition, Medical, Dental, Emotional
3.Mentoring: Caring, Dedicated Adults for All Kids, Treasure Hunters
Systems Impact• Trust – inside and out• Budget Decisions Driven by Tenets• Leaders as PAL Mentors• Hope in Action
• Hope Team• Union Presidents• Leadership Team/Classified Staff
• The Whole Story: The SK Way• District Calendar• SK Road Trip and SK Key• Declaring our Interdependence
Collective IMPACT• Back Packs for Kids – Churches, Rotary• Summer Lunch Camps • Back to School Celebration• Partnership with Juvenile Service Center –
• Training Their Staff in Kids at Hope• A New Partnership for Addressing Truancy
• Partnership with local Medical Providers• Partnership with local Dental Providers• Ready for K; Boys and Girls Club• Before School Art Programs• English Classes for Parents of ELL Students
DOING: Our Village in Action
• Harrison Hospital• 3 Church Leaders• County Agencies• Child Protective Services• County Library Officials• Foster Youth Agencies• Probation Officers• Law Enforcement• Lions Club/Rotary Club• Counselors• Nurses• Food and Nutrition
Services• School and District Staff
• Juvenile Detention• Helpline• Homeless Liaisons• Retired Organizations• Military Family Resources• Big Brothers, Big Sisters• PAL’s/CHAMPS Mentoring• Dental Services• Dept. Child and Fam.
Services• Indian Education• PTA’s• Master Gardeners• Boy & Girl Scouts
ParadeParade
Arts &Crafts
Arts &Crafts
Health ProvidersHealth Providers
Free Immunizations
Free Immunizations
Free Back Packs
Free Back Packs
GamesGames
School and Community
Entertainment
School and Community
Entertainment
Free Popcorn, PopsiclesBalloons
Free Popcorn, PopsiclesBalloons
HS Athletic Teams
HS Athletic Teams
Free Hot DogsFree Hot Dogs
Free Haircuts Free Haircuts
Local Businesses
Local Businesses
Free SchoolSupplies
Free SchoolSupplies
Back to School Celebration
The Whole Child Challenge
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)
