| | | | | | | | Action Item - 24.
Title: Contract with Urban Affairs Coalition - Philadelphia High School for Girls ($30,000)
Board of Education Meeting Date: 8/20/2020
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| | | | | | | | Action under consideration
| | The Administration recommends that the Board of Education authorize The School District of Philadelphia, through the Superintendent or his designee, to execute and perform a contract, subject to funding, as follows:
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Urban Affairs Coalition
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To support the social and emotional learning component of the “Keys to My Success” transition program
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| | | | | | | | | | Start date: 8/21/2020
| | | End date: 6/30/2021
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| | | | | | | | | | Compensation not to exceed: $30,000
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| | | | | | | | | | Location:
Philadelphia High School for Girls
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| | | | | | | | | | Description:
As part of the "Keys to My Success" grant provided by the Philadelphia School Partnership, the Philadelphia High School for Girls will work with the Urban Affairs Coalition's Inner Strength Foundation programs to develop and support students and staff. The Inner Strength Foundation Teen Program focuses on school mindfulness and systems thinking programs to train teens to use life-long learning and mental wellness tools. The teen program takes a trauma-informed lens and teaches social emotional tools as well as mindful awareness exercises to help students learn to focus, manage anger and anxiety, calm reactivity, and become interested in the way our brain's development influences their experience now. Students will address the personal and social triggers that prevent learning and also learn all-important 21st century skills of systemic, contextual, and flexible thinking.
The Inner Strength Reducing Secondary Stress (IS-RSS) for Educators program aims to cultivate wholesome learning environments by providing stress reduction programs for teachers. The IS-RSS program is a scalable self-care and trauma reduction program where participants learn to identify signs of secondary stress, understand the physiological effect of secondary trauma on the brain and other health indicators, deconstruct culturally conditioned beliefs that are barriers to self-care practice, foundational mindfulness-based stress reduction tools, and build a personal self-care plan to incorporate self-care into the workday.
| | | Anchor Goal(s) Supported: Anchor Goal 1 - 100% of students will graduate ready for college or career, Anchor Goal 4 - 100% of funding for great schools is secured with zero deficit
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| | | | | | | | | | Related resolution(s)/approval(s):
June 25, 2020; No. 6
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| | | | | | | | | | Funding Source(s):
FY20-21 Categorical |
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| | | | | | | | | | Office Originating Request: Schools
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