‘May 2017 SHAC Meeting May 3, 2017 AISD Board Room 5:00 p.m. Pat Warner, Cynthia Sleight: Pat asked SHAC for a recommendation from SHAC for use of a resource to create an AISD curriculum students in K-5 grades. Cynthia reviewed the TEKS and lessons across PE, Social Studies, Math, Science, SEL, and other areas and discussed the need for a resource for elementary schools. We currently have five lessons in each of grades K-5 which are taught after testing at the end of the Spring semester. Pat shared the scope and sequence for these lessons. Each starts with a lesson on Setting Ground Rules to establish the environment. We will be teaching students the medically accurate terms for body parts including penis and vulva. A working group identified 3 R’s as, the primary resource and then staff will make adaptations and sequencing changes. Some schools split boys and girls apart for the lessons—this is up to the Principal. We will inform principals that this is coming. Teachers will need instructional guidelines, Parents will need more information including objectives of each lesson. Trainings will be offered in the Fall semester to implement in the Spring semester. We want parents to opt out per lesson instead of current practice of opting out of the whole curriculum, We want to provide additional resources for parents and teachers. 3R's is a K-12 sexual health curriculum created by Advocates for Youth and meets the national health education standards and also the national sexuality education standards. We are aligning all policies with the curriculum. Pat and Cynthia feel that the resource is trauma-informed and they welcome further review of the lessons. The instructional materials will make an effort to connect students who need additional support with the counselor. Each campus has the option to teach this the way that works for them—i.e. having specific teachers teach all of the lessons. Parents will be able to teach the materials themselves if they choose. The curriculum will be ready for teachers in August, the professional development may take longer. Present: Barri Rosenbluth, Alma Arena, Laura Gold, Anneliese Tanner, Tracy Spinner, Pat Werner, Cynthia Sleight, Michele Rusnak, Lesa Walker, Alda Santana, Shannon Sandrea, Toni Rayner, Andrew Wiggins, Ronda Rutledge, Kathy Green, Vivian Ballard, Katie Wolfe, Ben Taylor, Melody Carlton, Tom Rosen, Julie Cowan, Pam Martin, Sarah Bentley, Stephen Pont, Sally Freeman, Hugh Simmons, Jennifer Delgado Minutes: April minutes were approved. Presentation: Overview of AISD Nutrition and Food Services Initiatives Of the 83,000 students in AISD 56% are free and reduced lunch. We serve 80,000 meals per day. Work areas include food access, nutrition education and sustainability. Food safety is a top priority. We have an average food safety score of 97.3 %. We are transitioning from snacks to after school meals, serving ‘around 3,500 per day. On an average day we serve 28% of enrollment at breakfast and 52% at lunch. The cost per meal is $1.10 per meal, Our target is $1.05. We had a warehouse collapse which resulted in increased costs. All 80 elementaries have salad bars. We have seasonal menus. We project a budget deficit this year resulting from minimum wage increase, warehouse collapse, new software, extra training for staff. We are projecting an increase in lunch prices for paid meals from $2.85-$2.95 per, meal. The City funded $20,000 for courtesy meals to cover the cost of the lunch when students don’ter year for meals. Calls and emails go out on th, AISD funds about $300,000 p J Scones fs hhas a negative balance. Breakfast in the ‘Mondays to parents to inform them when the student f cee Classroom is reaching 17,000 students. Menu items include vegetarian, and scratch made. Stud i if they staff report breakfast is helping students bond and reducing disciplinary problems. Schools, ee pe is have at least 60% free and reduced lunch. Partners for BIC have provided a grant to increase ful ms more campuses. A new federal program called Community Eligibility Provision provides free breakfa tind lunch forall students at campuses with 70% of students directly certified on April 1, 2017. The trative burden on food service departments. We are food outside of clude seasonal 15-30% of ich fruit intent of the program is to eliminate adminis serving every campus (70) that qualify for after school meals. Students may now take the cafeteria to eat later. Students can now share food that they don’t want. Menu: themes, incorporating local produce, veggie samples provided by Sustainable Food Center. students are choosing salad bars. High school students are allowed to help themselves to as mut ‘and vegetables as they want. Salad bars will be rolled out to middle schools next year. Students are excited about the salad bars. We have a food truck that is serving global themed menus. Students are staying on campus rather than going out for lunch. Students are involved by submitting recipes, making smoothies, raising pork at Lanier. We are sampling menus and providing nutrition education. We are focusing on culinary training. We are bringing in items that students may eat at home, such as bone-in chicken. We added menu identifiers this year to indicate meat and gluten free. Scratch-cooking has been very well-received. We will have 100% clean labels in 2019—omitting 7 harmful ingredients completely from our menu. We are maintaining the highest standard of food nutrition despite recent legislation that allows a lower standard. Our biggest costs are for milk and dairy and meat and poultry. We are also focusing on sustainability—vendors that are implementing sustainable practices, .e. marine stewardship. We do outreach events to educate the community ~veggie walk was popular. We have been consulting with other districts and are invited to present at conferences around the country. We have had over 70 positive media mentions including National Geographic. We have received over $1.6 Million in grant funding from the LifeTime Foundation, Google, Action for Healthy Kids, Whole Kids Foundation, Breakfast in the Classroom and others. Parent survey results show that parents are evenly split on chocolate milk. Eliminating the harmful 7 ingredients at school has influenced parents at home. Concessions for 5 stadiums will be done by food services next year, replacing items with healthy alternatives. We will be transferring to School Café a platform that will consolidate all food matters, payments and menus, in one place accessible with student's ID number. The SHAC dinner was provided by AISD food services and consisted of “frito pie” made of lentils, corn chips, and brown rice. Sides included salad and cookies—everyone agreed the menu was delicious and healthy. Pat Werner: Pat introduced a recommendation from the Health Curriculum working group to use The 3 R's sex education curriculum as a resource. We currently are teaching students in K-5 curriculum on bullying, making friends and related issues. The new lessons address body parts, boundaries, some anti- bullying, and will better align with middle and high school curriculum. We are taking a free resource and building lessons for AISD. We will offer training for teachers, inform principals and parents, provide access to curriculum, provide parent opt out per lesson. Principals will choose how to implement on their campus. The goal is for the materials to be available in Spanish and other languages spoken by parents in AISD. The SHAC approved the recommendation.constructed by the FABPAC. We need Board Report: Julie Cowan. A proposed bond package is being i II Julie or visit Austinisd.org/fmp to learn maintenance on existing schools and new campuses. Please ca more, the ecological model of school health at a national District Reports: Tracy and Dr. Minnie will present on Pa expand school- conference in Maryland, She is stil working with the Governor’ Office on funding to based mental health services to elementary schools. Starla is receiving positive principal feedback from 17 CBCRCs, Multiple bills are being tracked related to mental health. The Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why? is raising lots of needs and questions from campuses. The Central Health Texas policy committee adopted AISD's recess policy and is recommending it to other districts. ‘gym sizes to the FABPAC Ed /e had a lot of families run Coordinated School Health PE and Health: Michele Rusnak voiced her opinion on increasing elementary Specs Committee. Friday is Marathon Kids, please encourage participation. W' the Capital 10K, Fitness gram data is coming in and Michele is working on the Report. These scores will be a part of the superintendent's score card. Pat Werner has been nominated for the Honorary Award by the Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. SEL: Pam reported that planning is underway for the second annual SEL symposium on June 15", 2017. The SEL fellowship which includes donors, professors, prnicipals, are developing SEL 2.0 to be rolled out in Fall which includes trauma-informed practices and safe and supportive learning environments for students and adults on campus. Student Health Services: Integral Care provided a mental health counselor for sports physicals. EpiPens ‘are on every campus. An AISD nurse is being considered for an award by the Austin American Statesman. Employee Wellness: The benefits office is working to provide a one-stop shop webpage for all employee Wellness needs. ER visits have increased and primary care visits decreased, indicating misuse of the ER. They are using this data to inform efforts to promote wellness. Costs for mental health are high and are serving a significant portion of our employees. Committee Reports: ‘SEB: Hugh Simmons and Eric Metcalf are meeting with local districts to convene a meeting to build a collective voice for SHACs. Pam, Lesa, Sarah, Barri and other partners are creating a youth-led session at the AISD SEL symposium in June to educate administrators and other school personnel on what students say they need to feel safe, supported and successful at school. This session will feature 15-20 youth leaders from various initiatives including PALS, Changing Lives, P2P and others. Lesa Walker of Compassionate Austin presented certificates of youth leadership recognition to the AISD SHAC Social- Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee for advancing youth voice and leadership in compassion education. Chair Kathy Green reminded the members that they are not to attend events or otherwise as official representatives of the SHAC unless specifically authorized to do so by the SHAC.Community Comments: Chelsea Brass presented as a community member and professional with experience in health policy. She proposes that AISD partner with Central Health for school-based health services. Central Health should bbe considered in the future for site-based clinic. Meeting was adjourned at 8:20 p.m.