Proposal and Provisions

Entry guaranteed for all people who appear near the appropriate age
- 24/7/365
- No prior identification required
  - To promote an inviting environment for newcomers / first timers
  - Can use biometric identification (appropriately anonymous if necessary, ie for cases of abuse)
Appropriate supervision (adult to client population ratio) onsite 24/7
- Appropriate vetting for abuse of any children
  - Especially unaccompanied children to prevent returning to abusive environment
Access to safe temporary sleeping / shelter
- Aimed at (but not exclusively for) children of at risk families or those currently non-housed
- Residential at the school versus seamless access and trasnport to local shelter
- Triage Option:
  - 24/7 Onsite staff to be able to triage and assist in transportation if necessary
- Resident option:
  - Children can dorm at school at parent’s discretion / need
  - Capacity for a percentage of the anticipated region’s population of that age
    - clothing / laundry / shower / hygiene facilities
- open questions
  - Residential option with many logistical and cost hoops due to state requirements
  - surge plan
    - where to send / triage if all residential beds full
  - Can stay for as long as necessary / desired
  - Ok as babysitting?
  - Liability
  - How to make socially acceptable and not stigmatizing to stay @ school
  - encourage regularly community sleep ins, ie incorporated with multiday projects

Education
- Evidence based curriculum
  - Peer based instruction / mixed age instruction
  - Mastery v sufficiency (ie Kahn academy)
  - social emotional learning
- Library / internet services 24/7/365 access
  - even if no residential component to building
- Every child deserves Personalized Learning
- Engagement by students is a product of environment
- Curriculum Elements
  - “We give kids a ‘C’ in bicycles then graduate to unicycle, instead of progressing based on mastery” – Sal Khan
  - Focus on Mastery rather than arbitrary age cohorts
  - Rolling admissions
- Calendar Elements
  - no 3 month summer break
  - With quarterly vacations?
  - Some instruction / classes / supervision / teaching always available every day
- Assessment
  - centered around assessing individual’s learning needs
    - similar to Lectica https://lecticalive.org/about/who-we-are#gsc.tab=0
    - “open-ended, written response items without “correct” answers. We’re interested in the depth of understanding and level of skill, not correctness. We want to know how test-takers work with their knowledge—which elements of a situation they take into account and the level at which they understand and coordinate those elements. This causes us to focus in on the way students explain or justify their answers. “
      - Will drive need for higher staff ratios
- Arts
  - Music and arts integrated
- Physical Education
  - Gym and sports facilities
- Health / body awareness
  - developmentally appropriate body and health education
- life economics / practical living curriculum
- meta learning / learning how to learn as a priority
- flexible structure for neurodivergent and special needs
- parenting / caregiving education available
  - Incentivize, pay caregivers to attend
  - 24/7 childcare built into school, enabling caregivers to attend
climate / culture
- not manage students, manage the climate or culture of environment so that children will be engaged and motivated
- honest about how system has hurt people in the past and currently
- Organizations to learn from:
  - https://community.designprinciples.org/
Nutrition
- All meals provided no out of pocket cost
- Some food available 24/7
Ages, all < 18 years
- Different facility for appropriate age groups
  - Can use current model of 0-5, 5-12, 12-15, 15-18
Medical care
- Onsite (staffed pending usage) for 1-5 days / week
  - LPN / RN / NP / PA?
- Well child checks / vaccinations
- Basic urgent care and triage
- Sick beds for observation so children’s caregivers won’t have to leave work
Therapy – Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy /Speech Therapy
Mental health
- Counseling services onsite
- Trained to handle the spectrum of routine to PTSD and developmental delay
Social work
- Identification services (for those lacking ID cards, etc)
- Long term home placement services (if necessary)
- GED / job placement for older children and parents?
Transportation
- bussing
- Bicycle available?
  - Partner w/ nike
Family Integration
- caregiving classes
  - How to incentivize?
- job placement / vocational ed resources for family / caregivers
Equity
- Foundationally aimed at removing and no longer perpetuating entrenched racism and or racist policy structures?
- Community participation and leaderhsip critical
Scalability
- Ideally local public school would be the institution to provide these services
  - rather than charter / public
- this would be a replicable model to apply so that all children could have services met
- Any one school wouldn’t likely be able to meet the needs of an entire city, but if the city’s public school system were set up like this, then no one location would have to bear the burden of housing all the at risk youth
Logistics
- Cost
  - Initial overhead
    - Building costs
    - Upgrade costs
  - Upkeep
    - currently for public education, the USA spends $11,000 average / student
      - Oregon 10k
      - Boarding schools ~ $20,000
      - Victory Academy for autism $40,000
  - Facility
    - Food
      - ~$3.50 per meal national average
      - ~400 students / school
      - ~1.5 million / year (3 meals / day / 365)
    - Hygiene
      - shower facilities
      - already should have for gym facilities
      - access 24/7/365
    - Safe Sleeping / Residential?
      - Homeless youth in Portland
        https://www.portlandoregon.gov/toolkit/article/562207
        ~370 children < 18 years old in Portland
        370/73 elem schools = 5 student homeless / school?
      - Foster Home network locally with each school
        Available on emergency basis
        How to build and vet network?
        more flexible and less liable than dorm in school
      - Residential option in school
        Costly, Janus shelter for 10 teens costs $450,000 annually
- Personnel
  - Teacher
    - Student / teacher ratio
      - how to justify <15:1 when most evidence says correlation is weak?
    - Special Ed
    - ESL
  - Chaperone (residential or after hours portion)
    - Appropriate credential
  - Medical clinic
    - NP? With MD/DO located @ hub / high school
    - How to staff medical professional?
      - back of napkin calculation:
      - 20 visits / day
      - 500 students / school
      - 25 days clinic staffing / year = 1 full day every other week just for wellness exam
      - 3 % kids miss 11 days of school
        30% miss 1 day
      - ~4.5 sick days per child, some % could likely be observed in sick bed if difficult for parent to come get
  - Mentor
    - similar to rainier athletes / big brother / sister program
  - Counselor
    - ASCA recommended ratio of 1:250
    - National average 1:464
    - Optimum Ratio?
  - Psychologist
    - 1:500 – appropriate per conversation with Emille Refvem
  - Therapists (Physical, Occuptational, Speech)
    - Optimum Ratios?
  - How to compare to sum costs of all current systems providing similar services
  - Add in value lost to taking kids out of school to get services not provided on campus
  - consider information lost by not having integrated record keeping

Similar concepts
Victory Academy, inclusive wrap around for children with autism
- https://www.victoryacademy.org/inside-victory/testimonials.html
Lebron James promise school
- No residential component
- Bicycle to each student
- unusual in the resources and attention it devotes to parents
Harlem Children’s zone
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Children%27s_Zone#Replication_in_other_cities
- no overnight
Unlockingtime.com
Zuckerberg – Newark
- https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-schools-education-newark-mayor-ras-baraka-cory-booker-2018-5
- projects are siloed, not integrated
- OneSchool isn’t going to “move fast and break things”
- community involvement day 1
- money to the projects, not to oversight / overhead
rocketshipschool.org
teachforall.org
How to get started
- establish a slick, comprehensive, evidence based proposal
- collect core group of founders
  - Podcast to attract attention
  - organize core founder group
    - educational experts
    - admin
    - curriculum
    - public health experts
    - legal expert
    - mental health experts
    - Social work
    - Family Resource
    - behavioral experts
  - this will reinforce the concept and proposal
    - general critical threshold of attention and expertise
    - attract $
      - billionaire vs state, i would imagine that easier to get seed money from billionaire
      - Proposal option like Omidyiar?
- Pilot
  - perhaps, mobile units to go around and support current infrastructure
  - find a pilot school
if someone offer $
- how do you know you’re right and why not done before
  - we are comprehensive
  - we are evidence based
  - we are community centered, each location will have board of local parents / partners
  - not charter, goal is to be public school
- accountability
  - community board
  - ideally school board, the long term plan is for this to be integrated with public school systems
- why other ed projects failed
  - weren’t comprehensive
- why would this project be successful
  - founder group
  - evidence based
  - comprehensive, intergenerational thinking
  - not limited to current USA economic paradigms
  - wrap around social services integrated into institution
- what about the current school system / safety net / welfare
  - compete?
  - replace?
  - accommodate?
  - iterate
- equity
  - community board
  - upfront about equity as a goal
    - Equity best achieved through personalized, individualized experience for all student
- how much control does money giver get
  - hope it will be given and control allowed by the school
- who control / run
  - private / public
    - if we can start as a privately funded proof of concept that will ultimately be run by the city / state public health / education
    - From the get go, even if privately funded, stipulation of donation will be hands-off, community lead from initiation
- how to roll out / scalability
  - pilot project of 1 elementary school
  - expand to middle, high school, 0-5 daycare
  - expand to city public school system
  - etc
- community support
  - community board engaged from the beginning
Challenges
- Setting
  - Academic versus medical and legal implications
- are there enough teachers to get to 15:1 student ratio (or best evidence based ratio of “mainstream” classes)
  - Address education and scholarship funding for teachers at the systemic level
- Additional sources of funding
  - Health Insurance
  - https://grants.nih.gov/grants/how-to-apply-application-guide/forms-e/sbir-sttr-forms-e.pdf
- Student Demographics
  - Percent of kids in normal / disabled brackets
- Other resources
  - Columbia region program
  - NW regional program
  - Teach Plus
- Colonization
  - want to avoid even appearing to be another effort of colonization
  - community engagement from start
- Make certain we are meeting an existing need and not just creating a need
- Who are the adults/caregivers with the kids for the 24 hours a day they are at the facility. How are they to be trusted? What is the vetting process?
  - Similar process to currently hiring teachers, state and FBI background checks
  - We already have to trust kids to the care of schools and medical facilities, orphanages, foster care, youth detention centers, etc… But how do we make that better and more transparent?
  - If all these services are colocated, oversight will be logistically easier
  - Local city council oversight, walk throughs, and hiring from the community (easier once we have UBI)
  - Yes there is room for abuse, both by caregivers and other service recipients at the facility. The people that would be using the service as likely coming from disparaging situations, in a compromised mental and emotional position. Ideal targets for predators. How can we ensure they are protected?
- How can we promote a positive environment that is welcoming? A single incident can burn the entire system to the ground.
  - Encourage regular sleep overs for all community members
  - It will be (a part of) the local public school
  - Part of the advantage to colocated education, social work, mental health, medical, etc is that there are more people who can catch problems early
- The situations the children come from may put in place a natural apprehension to authority. How is that dissolved?
  - Comfortable welcoming environment, it will be the same location as their school so they will already be familiar with the building, services, and people
- What liabilities are the founders and operators of the facility liable for. How be we “own” those potential dangers openly, confidently, and in a way that promotes confidence?
  - How do schools do this now?
  - What procedures will be in place for routine “checkups” to ensure caregivers, educators, etc… are still on the up and up.
  - I picture a relationship with the nearest university / college that has educational programs. Treat it like a medical residency to some degree, the future educators are part of the active staff, and thus are exposed to current research and education models.
  - Continuing education credits

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