Urban Concern Inc.

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“1. Established & implemented procedures that promotes a healthy school - wide culture. Healthy school culture provides the context for holistic growth and thriving relationships.the negative impacts of the pandemic necessitated the staff, many of whom were new, to reestablish a healthy school ethos. To this end, we spent our annual orientation, ongoing professional development days, and regular staff meetings creating a school culture improvement plan. Additionally, we formed the holistic engagement team, led by director brandon grant. This team includes social work, school counseling, and behavioral health nursing professionals. Their focus is on meeting the social emotional-spiritual needs of students and championing healthy school-wide culture. Finally, we implemented a bi-weekly staff survey that tracks various aspects of school culture, including the morale of the staff, the health of the relationships between and with students, student responses to expectations, students' spiritual engagement, and parent-staff relationships. These efforts culminated in establishing and maintaining a healthy pulse of positive school culture. 2. Implement an intensive tutoring program for students in grades k-3 to address the growing achievement gap caused by covid. Covid learning loss is well-documented, especially for low-income and minority students. Nwea estimates that it will take more than five years for k-3 students to regain the academic ground lost in reading due to the pandemic. Most students will take 3-5 years to catch up in reading and math. As we approached the 2021-2022 school year, our goal was to utilize government covid-relief funds to hire and coordinate tutors to address some of the academic needs of students, especially in the youngest grades that were hit hardest by remote learning. However, we ran into a significant challenge: the rules of use for the covid-relief funds required potential tutors to be hired through the educational service center of central ohio. Unfortunately, the onboarding process for tutors was frustratingly cumbersome. Many of the tutors that showed initial interest decided to move on to other employment due to the roadblocks with esc onboarding. In the end, we successfully hired five tutors to serve in the after school program and recruited several additional volunteers. Though off to a slow start, we are excited to expand upon this initiative with expanded targeted tutoring during the 2022-23 school year. 3. Determine the feasibility of starting an accredited preschool. In 2021-2022, we wanted to research the feasibility of opening a preschool classroom to prepare incoming kindergarteners better academically. We researched licensure through the ohio department of education and funding through the ohio department of job & family services. Remarkably, we opened the preschool classroom in late august 2022 with eight four-year-old students. The class has grown to ten students, and our goal is to enroll fourteen preschool students.”