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    School Mental Health Committee - January Recommendations

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    The document provides recommendations from a Turnaround Task Force to revitalize low-performing schools. It outlines plans to universalize pre-K education, combat summer learning loss, re-invent chronically failing schools, retain teachers, remove barriers for students and parents, create tiers of mental health assistance, and establish a "New Hanover Guarantee" program to guarantee community college enrollment for graduates meeting requirements. The recommendations target improving early education, academic performance, teacher retention, family and student support, mental health resources, and post-secondary education opportunities.

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    The document provides recommendations from a Turnaround Task Force to revitalize low-performing schools. It outlines plans to universalize pre-K education, combat summer learning loss, re-invent chronically failing schools, retain teachers, remove barriers for students and parents, create tiers of mental health assistance, and establish a "New Hanover Guarantee" program to guarantee community college enrollment for graduates meeting requirements. The recommendations target improving early education, academic performance, teacher retention, family and student support, mental health resources, and post-secondary education opportunities.

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    The document provides recommendations from a Turnaround Task Force to revitalize low-performing schools. It outlines plans to universalize pre-K education, combat summer learning loss, re-invent chronically failing schools, retain teachers, remove barriers for students and parents, create tiers of mental health assistance, and establish a "New Hanover Guarantee" program to guarantee community college enrollment for graduates meeting requirements. The recommendations target improving early education, academic performance, teacher retention, family and student support, mental health resources, and post-secondary education opportunities.

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    School Mental Health Committee - January Recommendations

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    Ben Schachtman
    The document provides recommendations from a Turnaround Task Force to revitalize low-performing schools. It outlines plans to universalize pre-K education, combat summer learning loss, re-invent chronically failing schools, retain teachers, remove barriers for students and parents, create tiers of mental health assistance, and establish a "New Hanover Guarantee" program to guarantee community college enrollment for graduates meeting requirements. The recommendations target improving early education, academic performance, teacher retention, family and student support, mental health resources, and post-secondary education opportunities.

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    Turnaround Task Force

    Recommendations to revitalize
    low-performing schools
    Jan. 10, 2024
    Pre-K is universal

    • How many children are “denied” attendance now?


    • Will new construction be necessary?
    • Increase pay of pre-K teachers to a living wage
    • Work with private pre-K centers to keep from disrupting their work force
    • Offer parenting/life skill training classes
    • Partner with SmartStart and other nonprofits in this space
    • Establish criteria of what skills children need to enter Kindergarten
    • Minimum standards for pre-K programs. Can’t just be a babysitting service
    • Worth establishing a committee focused just on this issue
    No summer slide

    • Need a conscious and intentional effort to impact children early


    • Consider expanding number of schools with year-round schedules
    • Should desegregate the year-rounds we have and those going forward
    • Expand and enhance Freedom Schools (already NHC Endowment funded)
    • Paid tutors for 1st-grade summer interval, similar to Spartanburg, S.C., program
    • Other tactics as needed to ensure 3rd-graders are reading to learn
    Re-invent chronically failing schools

    • Expand “Restart School” designation beyond Snipes and Freeman


    • Implement Full Service Community Schools at Freeman/Holly Shelter (NHC
    Endowment funded)
    • Consider expanding FSCS model to Snipes and others
    • Re-invent magnet schools – perhaps as part of FSCS – to attract students voluntarily
    from across the county
    • Worth establishing a committee focused just on this issue
    Concerted effort to retain teachers
    • Tiered stipend system to attract/retain teachers who thrive in these schools
    • As much as $10,000 in some schools

    • Fund and support “Friends of Public Schools”


    • To be created through ask of NHC Endowment
    • Lives within the 501c3 license of Communities in Schools of Cape Fear
    • Assist 16 high-poverty schools, acting as “global PTA”
    • Fund teacher recognition, recruitment and retention efforts
    • Fund certification and professional development
    • Trauma-informed designation?
    • Pay for substitute teachers to allow this instruction
    • Fund experiential learning/field trips
    • Fund “concierge services” to be developed, such as:
    • Car maintenance and washing
    • Yardwork
    • Tax preparation
    Comparison of results to resources
    Rank Rank in Rank in Rank Rank in Rank in
    Elementary 1502 %rank FRL EOG resources
    Middle School 784 %rank FRL EOG resources
    1 Ogden 9 99.40 16.2% 1 2
    2 Masonboro 10 99.33 17.70% 2 3 1 Murray 77 90.20 35.0% 1 3
    3 Wrightsville Beach 20 98.67 9.8% 3 1 2 Noble 111 85.88 33.5% 2 2
    4 Eaton 77 94.87 30.1% 4 7 3 Roland Grise 141 82.06 33.3% 3 1
    5 Bellamy 126 91.61 38.6% 5 9 4 Holly Shelter 200 74.55 49.1% 4 5
    6 Codington 136 90.95 26.5% 6 6 5 Myrtle Grove 232 70.48 54.9% 5 6
    7 Holly Tree 138 90.81 21.0% 7 4
    6 Trask 240 69.47 46.7% 6 4
    8 Porters Neck 164 89.08 25.4% 8 5
    9 Carolina Beach 184 87.75 32.5% 9 8 7 Williston 702 10.69 73.4% 7 7
    10 Anderson 190 87.35 40.1% 10 10
    11 Castle Hayne 220 85.35 56.9% 11 16 Rank Rank in Rank in
    12 Winter Park 289 80.76 56.2% 12 15 High School 626 %rank FRL EOG resources
    13 Murrayville 349 76.76 48.2% 13 14
    1 Hoggard 190 69.65 29.2% 1 1
    14 Bradley Creek 429 71.44 40.1% 14 10
    15 Pine Valley 430 71.37 42.5% 15 12
    2 Ashley 228 63.58 34.7% 2 2
    16 Blair 530 64.71 58.0% 16 17 3 Laney 328 47.60 41.4% 3 3
    17 Mary C. Williams 531 64.65 65.8% 17 18 4 New Hanover 459 26.68 50.1% 4 4
    18 Gregory 723 51.86 45.6% 18 13
    19 Alderman 924 38.48 68.7% 19 19
    20 Sunset Park 1059 29.49 71.3% 20 21
    21 College Park 1152 23.30 70.2% 21 20
    22 Snipes 1246 17.04 88.0% 22 24
    23 Wrightsboro 1360 9.45 71.8% 23 22
    24 Forest Hills 1398 6.92 78.3% 24 23
    25 Freeman 1495 0.47 94.6% 25 26
    26 DC Virgo 1500 0.13 88.6% 26 25
    Remove barriers for students and parents
    Parents
    • Workshops at schools were they can learn to talk and read to their children, and help with
    their homework
    • Offer advice on job training, education, etc.
    • Partner with non-profits already providing these services
    • Pilot a “Family Liaison” position and at least one school
    • Forest Hills considering a part-time position

    Children
    • Partner with area churches to provide:
    • Classroom snacks
    • Clothing
    • Personal hygiene items
    • Books
    • Partner with Food Bank and other nonprofits to provide donations as well
    Create three tiers of mental health assistance
    1. Train teachers and staff to be “first responders” to trauma-inspired behavior
    • Agree on a training program and commit to it
    • Pay them for an 11th month to get this training
    • Hire staff to ensure and maintain ongoing compliance
    2. Add appropriate number of “Behavioral Support Specialists” for each HP school
    • Assess whether current positions at other schools can be transferred
    • Positions are professional level and come with experience in high-poverty schools
    • Goal: One Behavioral coach per grade level at highest poverty schools
    3. Revamp current mental health provider system in place
    • Evaluate pros/cons of NH County as the mental health provider
    • Referrals only for children whose behavior cannot be addressed
    • Elimination of waiting lists for treatment
    Create “New Hanover Guarantee” program
    • Modeled after program in place in Brunswick County
    • Every graduating student who meets minimum requirements guaranteed at least a
    slot at CF Community College
    • Consider assistance to four-year schools
    • Remove barriers such as child care – partner with YWCA/CFCC and other nonprofits
    as needed
    Questions?

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