NAVIANCE

1. NAVIANCE Executive Function Modules OUR WORK!!!!!! MENTAL HEALTHTASK FORCE Special Education POVERTYINHOWARD COUNTY Crisis Response Health Services and the BBES School Based Health Center

3. Updates • Stand Up HoCo Launched October 25, 2013 • Hoco.sprigeo.com • Bully, Harassment, or Intimidation reporting form on HCPSS website • Aspen reporting available to students with access • Anti-Bullying Task Force Meetings • HCPSS Bullying Prevention Training Module for all staff • Student Forum’s Planned for continued student input

4. Howard County’s Anti-Bullying InitiativeA Community Approach

5. Stand Up HoCo 1. Social marketing campaign to: educate the community about bullying and reshaping social norms around what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. 2. Online and mobile bullying reporting system hoco.sprigeo.com is: an online and mobile reporting system that provides a safe and secure place to report bullying anytime, anywhere. 3. Trainings, seminars and educational resources to: provide our community with the best available resources on bullying prevention. Evidence-based trainings will be made available for parents and professionals who interact with youth on a daily basis.

6. Responding To Bullying Behaviors:What To Do To Support Students • Encourage them to tell a trusted adult about the bullying. Tattling is telling to get someone in trouble, reporting is telling to get someone out of trouble. • Encourage them to verbally intervene, if it is safe to do so, by saying such things as: “Cool it! That isn’t going to solve anything.” • Tell them not to cheer on or even quietly watch bullying. This only encourages a student who bullies—who wants to be the center of attention. Source: www.stopbullying.gov

7. Staff Comments about Safe Schools Training (7900 staff completed module) • “Helpful course. Provided clear information.” • “This course was very informative and important for all staff to increase their knowledge of bullying.” • “Thank you for taking action to educate against bullying. It was encouraging to hear that this issue should not be taken lightly or ignored by teachers and staff. Good info!” • “I find it insulting to be forced to listen to statements that I am able to read. The material is necessary, but I dislike being "read to".”

8. Staff Comments about Safe Schools Training (7900 staff completed module) • “This was valuable, because not only did it refresh my awareness, but I learned something as well. Thank you, my son was bullied in high school.” • “I believe this course was an important one to add one. I noticed that I handled some situations the wrong way. I will remember what this course taught me to do.” ~ 2nd Year Teacher • “An effective means of handling this very important training.” • “Video presentation was very empowering. She (Rosalind Wiseman) is a wonderful speaker.”

9. Executive Functioning HCPSS Systemic Training Emily B. Hurd Instructional Facilitator, Psychological Services and Alternative Education

10. The Board of Education expects professional development for all HCPSS Staff on the LD/ADHD Resource Modules

11. Parent and Teacher Resource Modules Future Directions

12. LD/ADHD Initiative Executive Functions Series: Wiki https://ldadhd.wikispaces.hcpss.org https://ldadhdparents.wikispaces.hcpss.org

13. Anecdotal Data • Elementary: • “Probably the most interesting of everything I have heard in the last two days” • “I enjoyed the mix of lecture and group activities” • “I love the alignment between SOAR and the Executive Functions/toolbox. I am excited to teach the lessons and use the language in my classroom!”

14. Anecdotal Data • Middle School: • “I have really enjoyed the collaborative nature of the presentation in working as a SST to deliver information that is useful to teachers in the classroom.” • "I learned how to improve my planning and organizational skills to better assist my students. • "We brainstormed and shared ideas on how to organize our classroom in order to provide consistent structure for students.” • "Looking at our own executive functioning strengths and weaknesses help us better understand what supports our students need."

15. Anecdotal Data • High School • “As Professional Development goes this is the best I've attended in a while.” • "The amount of information presented was well balanced with an amount of interaction at our tables. Nice job there.” • "I enjoyed the self inventory.  It was a great reminder of my own strengths and weaknesses."  

16. HCPSS Crisis Intervention Teams • Two levels of crisis intervention: • School-based teams • Cluster Crisis Intervention Teams • Crisis training opportunities for staff: • Up to four ½ days of training each year for school-based teams • Two full days of training each year for Cluster Crisis Team

17. HCPSS Crisis Intervention Teams Crisis responses during the 2013-14 school year: • Fifty crisis events impacting sixty-five schools • Consultation provided to each of these schools • Fifteen schools required direct support from the Cluster Crisis Team (90 total responders) • Two crisis events impacting entire school system (the Navy Yard and Columbia Mall shootings)

18. HCPSS Crisis Response and Planning • River Hill Community Meeting • Suicide Prevention Meeting • Crisis Response Panel for Community Providers • Student voice on task forces and Student Services Advisory • Collaboration with Grass Roots, State’s Attorney, Health Department, DHMH

19. Mental Health Task Force Year Two Focus Areas Resource Mapping: Document how schools’ support staff spend their time and when they provide their services; Evaluate capacity of school-based support staff based on current HCPSS staffing formulas and responsibilities in addition to the provision of mental health services. School Based Wellness Center: Opened at Bollman Bridge ES on December 2, 2013 Student Curriculum: Reviewed Health Education and Counseling Curriculum Related Topics: High School Late Start; and Stress and Homework

20. Mental Health Task Force Year Two Focus Areas (continued) Needs Assessment Data: Gallup Student and Staff Polls, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and possible Focus Groups Communication: Parent Brochure to accompany Release of Records and HCPSS Website List of Mental Health Resources Professional Learning: Reviewed: Mental Health First Aid and UMD Mental Health Modules for Educators and School-Based Staff Under Review: Kognito (Avitar Interactive Simulations) and Safe Schools Training Module

21. Naviance

22. HCPSS Health Services introduces the Bollman Bridge Elementary School Wellness Center During the 2013-14 school year, the Bollman Bridge Elementary School Wellness Center was opened, providing children the opportunity to receive health care at school during the school day. A pediatric nurse-practitioner, medical office assistant, licensed social worker, and part-time physician staff the Wellness Center. Care is coordinated with each child’s primary health care provider to ensure continuity. Services provided include: Annual/camp/sports physicals Immunizations, including flu vaccines Immediate treatment for illness and injuries Management of asthma, obesity, and other chronic medical problems Behavioral health services and counseling Comprehensive health assessments Laboratory tests Student Enrollment 295 Student Visits 76

23. The Changing Face of Poverty in Howard County

25. HOWARD COUNTY Students Impacted by Poverty 1986 2011 500 9200 2013 9474

26. Connecting Creativity to Understanding—Educational Leadership 2/13 “Let’s push past what we know to be quality, to be right or worthy, to trample those boundaries in search of new connections, possibilities, insights and perspectives…”