Facilities Condition Assessment and Facilities Master Plan
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Individualized Support

Providing for the unique needs of every learner.

Our Process

Applied Goals

Goal 1
College & Career Readiness
Goal 2
Foundational Educational Experience
Goal 3
Targeted Support for Students
Goal 4
Culture & Climate
Goal 5
Engagement & Empowerment
Goal 8
Basic Conditions & Services

In addition to directly supporting LCAP Goal 8, individualized support for students has a direct impact on LCAP Goal 3: to confront and interrupt inequities that exist to level the playing field and provide opportunities for everyone to learn, grow, and reach their greatness.

Future design teams must create integrated environments with space to support Resource Specialists and students that feel welcoming to families. These spaces will support various therapies, sensory activities, the development of executive function skills and a “push-in model” that gives students the opportunities to integrate with the mainstream as much as is appropriate for their needs. Simply said, this approach recognizes that all humans are different, therefore we all have special needs.

Goal 1: College & Career Readiness

100% of SCUSD students will graduate college and career ready with a wide array of postsecondary options and a clear postsecondary plan. Growth in Graduation Rate and College/Career Readiness will be accelerated for Students with Disabilities, English Learners, African American students, American Indian or Alaska Native students, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students, Foster Youth, Homeless Youth, and other student groups with gaps in outcomes until gaps are eliminated.

Goal 2: Foundational Educational Experience

Provide every SCUSD student an educational program with standards-aligned instruction, fidelity to district programs and practices, and robust, rigorous learning experiences inside and outside the classroom so that all students can meet or exceed state standards.

Goal 3: Target Support for Students

Provide every student the specific  academic, behavioral, social-emotional, and mental and physical health supports to meet their individual needs - especially English Learners, Students with Disabilities, Foster Youth, Homeless Youth, African American students, American Indian or Alaska Native students, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students, and other student  groups whose outcomes indicate the greatest need – so that all students can remain fully engaged in school and access core instruction.

Goal 4: Culture & Climate

School and classroom learning environments will become safer, more inclusive, and more culturally competent through the active dismantling of inequitable and discriminatory systems affecting BIPOC students, Students with Disabilities, English Learners, Foster Youth, and Homeless Youth.

Goal 5

Parents, families, community stakeholders, and students will be engaged and empowered as partners in teaching and learning through effective communication, capacity building, and collaborative decision-making.

Goal 8: Basic Conditions & Services

SCUSD will maintain sufficient instructional materials, safe and clean facilities, core classroom staffing, and other basic conditions necessary to support the effective implementation of actions across all LCAP Goals.

Over the course of the master planning process, stakeholder input is gathered at multiple stages by various groups of experts and users.

Educational Design GroupProgram Focus Group2019 Working GroupCore Planning Group
Educators from across the District covering all grade levels with expertise in supporting LCAP-identified student groups and ethnicities.District expert included Becky BryantBoard member(s), superintendent designee, district office, teaching and learning leadership, and principals, teachers Covering all grade levelsParents; vested stakeholders from committees including African American Advisory Board, Bond Oversight Committee (BOC), Community Advisory Committee (CAC), District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC); and community champions for neighborhood well-being.
Educational Design GroupCore Planning Group
Educators from across the District covering all grade levels with expertise in supporting LCAP-identified student groups and ethnicities.Parents; vested stakeholders from committees including African American Advisory Board, Bond Oversight Committee (BOC), Community Advisory Committee (CAC), District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC); and community champions for neighborhood well-being.

Key Insights

  • Every student can attend their neighborhood school or school of choice.

Summary

SituationCauseStrategies, Tier 1Strategies, Tier 2
Campuses are unable to support many students with special needs.

Students bused to programs, taking them out of their communities. Not all students with special needs can attend their home school or their school of choice to get services they need
Integrated environments don’t exist on many campuses. In some cases, they are lacking entirely. In other cases, their classrooms are re-appropriated for other programs, or they lack infrastructure such as bathrooms adjacent to classrooms and sinks in the classrooms
1. Learning Resource Center
Special Education (SPED)

2. Learning Studios
1. Right-sized Learning Studios

2. Flex space for Resource Specialists - to support Resource Specialists (Psych, OT/PT, speech)

3. Break out Rooms to support a "push-in" instead of "pull out" model placing these adjacent to Learning Studios support remote learning technology.
An inclusive approach to integrate students into all campuses, has been evolving. There is still some resistance and a perception that students with special needs can’t be accommodated on every campus or have their classrooms interwoven with the mainstream classrooms.Lack adequate space to support the work done by Resource Specialists such as Psychologists, Occupational Therapist (OT), Physical Therapist (PT), and Speech Therapists


Facilities are unwelcoming and/or challenging for families
Wellness Centers
Elementary schools – sensory activities, executive function skills
Middle and high schools – therapy, calming, home base

Remote Learning Technology

Inviting, well-designed environments that support families.
Sensory Rooms and Calming Gardens to support sensory needs for students to develop their executive function skills.