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Facilitator Check-In Meeting

Thursday, December 04, 2025

Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) Tier 2 Grant

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BTB’s Mission:

Ensuring students have access to expanded learning opportunities in a safe and supportive environment that offers high-quality academic, enrichment, and recreation programs to motivate students to work towards their full potential.

BTB’s Vision:

Beyond the Bell will be a model expanded learning program by ensuring access to opportunities that address educational inequities by providing experiences and activities that students desire and support the graduation of ALL students ready for the world.

TUPE supports BTB’s mission by promoting healthy, safe, and equitable learning environments that empower students to make informed choices, strengthen their well-being, advocate for healthy alternatives, and reach their full academic and personal potential.

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LAUSD 2022-2026 Strategic Plan

  • Joy and Wellness
    • Whole-Child Well-Being
    • Strong Social-Emotional Skills

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Meeting Objectives

OBJECTIVES

  1. Review BTB Facilitator role and expectations.
  2. Introduce and review Quality Standards.
  3. Understand and implement the focus standard of Youth Voice and Leadership. �

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Agenda

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Inclusion

What is your why?

Why do you show up to work and do what you do every day?

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Facilitator Role

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Facilitator Role

A facilitator role is the position or function of someone who guides a group’s process so the members can work together effectively. A facilitator does not take control of the content or make decisions for the group; instead, they focus on how the group works.

Key aspects of a facilitator role:

  • Creates a supportive environment where everyone can participate�
  • Keeps discussions on track and ensures goals are clear�
  • Encourages collaboration and constructive dialogue�
  • Manages conflict in a neutral, respectful way�
  • Promotes understanding by summarizing, clarifying, and asking questions�
  • Ensures fairness so all voices are heard

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Facilitator Expectations

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Quality Standard

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Quality Standards

The Quality Standards are intended to create a framework of clear expectations, and a shared vision of quality among multiple stakeholders. The Standards in Action are intended to provide more detailed information about what the standards should look like at the programmatic, staff, and student levels. The Quality Standards are a central component of the cycle of quality improvement. They are not assessment or compliance tools, but can be utilized in conjunction with a variety of assessment tools to plan and assess the quality of expanded learning programs.

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Point of Service Quality Standards

  1. Safe and supportive environment

The program provides a safe and nurturing environment that supports the developmental, social-emotional and physical needs of all students.

  1. Active and engaged learning

Program design and activities reflect active, meaningful and engaging learning methods that promote collaboration and expand student horizons.

  1. Skill building

The program maintains high expectations for all students, intentionally links program goals and curricula with 21st-century skills and provides activities to help students achieve mastery.

  1. Youth voice and leadership

The program provides and supports intentional opportunities for students to play a meaningful role in program design and implementation, and provides ongoing access to authentic leadership roles.

  1. Healthy choices and behaviors

The program promotes student well-being through opportunities to learn about and practice balanced nutrition, physical activity and other healthy choices in an environment that supports a healthy lifestyle.

  1. Diversity, access and equity

The program creates an environment in which students experience values that embrace diversity and equity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, income level, national origin, physical ability, sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression. Program design and activities reflect active, meaningful and engaging learning methods that promote collaboration and expand student horizons.

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Youth Voice and Leadership

The program provides and supports intentional opportunities for students to play a meaningful role in program design and implementation, and provides ongoing access to authentic leadership roles.

Youth voice and leadership in action

Programmatic Level

  • The program provides participants with opportunities and space to share their viewpoints, concerns, or interests in order to impact program practices or policies. This includes opportunities that are led by youth.

  • The program provides opportunities for participants to actively exercise their leadership skills and address real world problems that they identify in their communities. These are activities that require critical thinking, debate, and action planning.

  • The program trains staff to facilitate youth voice and leadership in ways that promote positive relationships within the program and empower participants to have a positive impact on other individuals and institutions.

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Youth Voice and Leadership

Staff Level

  • Staff encourage and engage participants on a regular basis to share their perspectives regarding program design, what they want to learn and the quality of their experience in the program.

  • Staff work to recognize the leadership potential in all young people, regardless of their age, and provide opportunities for them to develop their leadership skills by providing authentic leadership roles within their after school program.

Participant Level

  • Participants engage in authentic and meaningful leadership roles that are supported by staff and celebrated by the program.
  • Participants share ownership in the design of program activities. ■ Participants take responsibility for completing projects.
  • Participants express their opinions and feedback in surveys or group discussions regarding what they want to learn about, what they want to be able to do, and the development of program offerings that respond to their interests.
  • Participants reflect on learning experiences (formal and informal) and give their opinion about future learning opportunities

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In your breakout group, discuss and collaborate to identify concrete ways to build TUPE student leadership and elevate youth voice during AFHC sessions and campaign events.

Please create a list that includes:

  • Strategies to empower students as leaders
  • Opportunities to incorporate authentic youth voice
  • Approaches for integrating student-led activities in AFHC sessions
  • Ideas for student-driven planning or facilitation during campaign event

Break Out Group Activity

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Upcoming Campaigns

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Campaign Events

There are five campaign events throughout the year. Facilitators must conduct all five. The events are listed below:

  • The Great American Smokeout (Escape the Vape) - November
  • Save a Sweetheart/Healthy Hearts - February
  • Take Down Tobacco (Kick Butt’s Day) - March
  • Earth Day - April
  • World No Tobacco Day - May

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Closing

Please complete, the BTB PD Survey.

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Important Dates

  • Save meeting dates (11:00am–12:00 p.m.) via Zoom
    • January 2026 - No check in
    • February 5, 2026
    • March 5, 2026
    • April 2, 2026
    • May-TBD
  • Reach out for support anytime — TUPE team is here to help!
    • Maya Rosas, TUPE Grant Administrator - (213) 241-3029, (213) 509-9302, mdr3802@lausd.net
    • Yvonne Cortez, Youth Development Coordinator - (213) 241-3544, yvonne.cortez@lausd.net
    • Saray Portamarin, TUPE APS - saray.portamarin@lausd.net

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Questions

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