Student Wellness and Safety Taskforce
March 22, 2023 (Room 208)
Public Presence at Taskforce Meetings
Thank you for your interest in the work of the Student Wellness and Safety Taskforce. Our group is a working body whose recommendations will be given to the Superintendent, School Board, and Cabinet. Observers must adhere to the following protocols:
AGENDA:
Student Wellness & Safety Taskforce
Charge & Key Deliverables
Student Wellness & Safety Taskforce Norms
Progress to Date
Today: Action Planning
Student Wellness & Safety Taskforce
Subcommittee Goals/Topic Areas
To meet the goals of Parameter 7 and Goal 2, Northshore School District will put the following into place:
For each subcommittee area, members will need to provide recommendations on:
Action Planning
Subcommittee Tasks, March 22
Step 1: Review current goal strategies
Step 2: Rank order the strategies by the most important to address to least important; where you can - combine strategies (ideally we have 4 or 5 max strategies per goal area)
Step 3: For each strategy conduct a strengths/weakness analysis
Step 4: Confirm commitment to the strategy/approaches
Step 5: Brainstorm actions required to implement each final strategy/approach
Questions Regarding Action Planning
Board Study Session, April 24
Subcommittee Assignments
Subcommittees Assignments
Close and Next Steps
Next Meeting: April 5
(Action Planning)
Racial and Educational Justice Guiding Questions
Policies, procedures, programs and practices will employ the equity best practices criteria as described in the questions below. Use these questions to guide your reflections, review, and revisions, keeping safety and legal requirements in mind:
Inclusivity
❏ How are subgroups affected by the policy, procedure, program, or practice involved in its development, implementation, and evaluation?
❏ How does the policy, procedure, program, or practice foster greater engagement in the Northshore community from diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds?
❏ How might the policy, procedure, program, or practice unintentionally exclude or limit persons or groups of intersectionality?
❏ What elements could be revised to eliminate this limitation?
❏ Is there a need for additional wording or guidance to provide more or clearer direction in this area?
Racial and Educational Justice Guiding Questions
Policies, procedures, programs and practices will employ the equity best practices criteria as described in the questions below. Use these questions to guide your reflections, review, and revisions, keeping safety and legal requirements in mind:
Opportunity
❏ How does the policy, procedure, program, or practice reinforce practices within the organization that eliminate institutional inequities?
❏ How are issues of internalized racial and cultural oppression, bias,and privilege acknowledged and attended to?
❏ How will we ensure participation and accountability?
❏ How does the policy, procedure, program, or practice increase opportunity and/or access for those who have been excluded?
❏ Who benefits from and/or who is harmed by the program, practice, policy or procedure?
❏ Do the academic policies, procedures, programs and practices specify ways in which they are tied to culturally relevant practices and/or offer or promote differentiated pathways for students’ success?
Racial and Educational Justice Guiding Questions
Policies, procedures, programs and practices will employ the equity best practices criteria as described in the questions below. Use these questions to guide your reflections, review, and revisions, keeping safety and legal requirements in mind:
Equity
❏ Is there data to support what the policy, procedure, program or practice does or will further narrow gaps, eliminate disproportionality, and/or ensure supports based on need? If not, does the policy, procedure, program or practice maintain neutrality or hinder further inequity?
❏ Does the policy, procedure, program or practice offer access through differentiation of resources, monetary or human, pending budget capacity where possible?
❏ Does the policy, procedure, program or practice indicate /outline adequate staffing allocations or plans to support it?
❏ Does the policy, procedure, program or practice ensure that resources – people, time, money – are allocated equitably, in line with the needs of our students and schools, and the priorities established by our community in our Strategic Action Plan?
Racial and Educational Justice Guiding Questions
Policies, procedures, programs and practices will employ the equity best practices criteria as described in the questions below. Use these questions to guide your reflections, review, and revisions, keeping safety and legal requirements in mind:
Cultural Relevance
❏ Does the policy, procedure, program or practice focus on or support, rather than hinder, access to academic, social, emotional and behavioral growth?
❏ Does the policy, procedure, program, or practice support equitable access to materials for students with impairments that traditionally limit access to content/curriculum?
❏ How are professional learning opportunities provided to staff to implement and maintain the policy, procedure, program, or practice?
❏ How does the policy, procedure, program or practice aim to challenge students to be independent learners who experience rigorous content regardless of their level of performance?
Racial and Educational Justice Guiding Questions
Policies, procedures, programs and practices will employ the equity best practices criteria as described in the questions below. Use these questions to guide your reflections, review, and revisions, keeping safety and legal requirements in mind:
Sensitivity
❏ Does the document and any related forms use pronouns that reflect the wide array of gender identities?
❏ How are the elements of the policy, procedure, program, or practice communicated to stakeholders in a variety of languages and methods?
❏ Is any related documentation presented in a way that allows for accessibility tools to convey the content (contrast, expandable fonts, etc) to a sight impaired person or differently-abled individual?
❏ Does the policy, procedure, program or practice meet legal obligations (RCWs, WACs)?
Racial and Educational Justice Guiding Questions
Policies, procedures, programs and practices will employ the equity best practices criteria as described in the questions below. Use these questions to guide your reflections, review, and revisions, keeping safety and legal requirements in mind:
Obligations
❏ How does the policy, procedure, program, or practice support or correlate to other policy, procedure, program, or practice?
❏ Have the legal obligations set forth by WAC/RCWs been met by this policy, procedure, program, or practice?
❏ Has the policy, procedure, program, or practice been reviewed to ensure that it doesn’t unintentionally contradict other policy, procedure, program, or practices?