Hawaii Department of Education Safety

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Hawaii Department of EducationSafety
Well-being Toolkit
Aloha Welcome!

• An Orientation
• December 2009

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Healthy, Safe,Respectful, Compassionate
We care about you!
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Why Safety Well-being?

• One of the Departments 3 student priorities
• Foundational to achieving academic social
  success
• All students need to feel safe and secure to
  achieve academic, social, emotional, and physical
  growth and success.
• WE are all responsible to support this goal.
• Compassionate and rigorous learning and teaching
  environments

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Provides Systemic Examination

• Of school policies, procedures, infrastructures,
  and data
• To determine current implementation status
  regarding
• School safety,
• Wellness and
• Student behavior.

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Goal 2 Provide Comprehensive Support For All
Students

• 2.1 Provide a focused and responsive system of
  supports to strengthen the social, emotional, and
  physical well-being of all students.
• 2.1.1 Address student safety, health, and
  well-being through the effective delivery of
  comprehensive support services.
• 2.1.2 Support all students with learning
  opportunities and assistance personalized to each
  students needs.
• 2.1.3 Develop and implement research-based early
  childhood policies and practices.

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What is the Safety Well-being Toolkit?

• On-line technical assistance guide with
• Information, sample worksheets, PowerPoint
  presentations, handouts, and resource materials
• To assist schools in addressing Goal 2 Provide
  Comprehensive Support of the DOE Strategic Plan
• Serves a catalyst to pull it together
• Is work in progress tool with phased in
  developments
• Phase I SY 2009-2010
• Phase II SY 2010-2011
• Phase III SY 2011-2012

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Who Should Use This Kit?

• Complex area superintendents complex support
  staff
• To provide technical assistance, support
  monitoring to schools
• School administrators, cadres, professional
  learning communities
• To guide action planning for Goal 2
• Families school community councils
• To gain understanding of schools integrated
  approach to promote wellness, safety, respect

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By Using This Toolkit . . .

• We should see . . .evidence of enabling
  activities addressing CSSS, Wellness, PBIS,
  Safety Security in the
• SY 2010-2011 Draft Academic/Financial Plan
• SY 2011-2012 Approved Academic/Financial Plan

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Accountability Measures

• Comprehensive Student System measures
• e.g., Increase no. of students proficient in
  reading math, high school graduates, attendance
  rates, family involvement
• Youth Risk Behavioral Survey
• Multi-year trends
• Student Behavior
• excess Incident multi-year trends

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Toolkit Content Areas

• Annual Training for Prevention of Bullying
  Harassment
• Comprehensive Student Support System
• Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions
  Supports
• School Safety and Security
• Wellness Guidelines

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Required School ActionsSY 2009-2010

• View Superintendents Messages
• Complete School Safety Security Webcourse
• Conduct face-to-face for training staff
  students on bullying/harassment prevention
• Continue implementation of Wellness Guidelines
• Complete Proactive Systems Map for schoolwide
  positive behavioral supports
• Review The Heart of Learning Teaching text

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Example of Restructuring Application

• Situation
• Restructuring elementary school decided to
  implement tutoring time for struggling learners
  during school day.
• As a result will have to delete current time
  allotted to Primary School Adjustment Program
• Question Are the identified struggling
  students emotionally healthy to take the rigor?
• Decision-making without data examination leads
  to
• No academic gains, may develop chronic behavioral
  problems, increase of school absences
• Begin to see downward spiraling of students
• If toolkit used
• Able to examine each component, i.e. CSSS
  supports, Wellness implementation, student
  behavior via PBIS and
• Make informed and responsible decision-making to
  need students needs

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Example of No problem school

• Situation We have no student discipline
  problems in our school. We met AYP. Why do we
  have to use the toolkit?
• As a school
• Can the critical features/actions be identified
  to ensure continued positive growth?
• How is the school prepared should the composition
  of their students and/or community change?
• What evidence demonstrates that all is going
  well?
• What community resources/partnerships have we
  established to support us?