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An Immersive Approach to Awareness, Part II: Deeper Level Training for School Staff and your School Community

Linda Mirabal-Pace, South Carolina State MV CoordinatorKelly-Jo Shebeck, Local Liaison, Clark County, NVJulie Ratekin, MI Regional MV Coordinator, Wayne County Sara Orris, MI Regional MV Coordinator, Oakland County Michelle Mattson, Hart Public Schools MV LiaisonSonya Jones, MV Coordinator, Charleston County School DistrictKaren Roy, MI Regional MV Coordinator, Mecosta, Osceola, Wexford, Missaukee, Manistee Counties

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Let’s Demo a Word Cloud

Tools You Can Use When Working to Create Awareness

Today’s Objectives

Objective 1: Participants will acknowledge the barriers to identifying homeless children at the school level and recognize that referrals may come from many outside sources.

Objective 2: Participants will recognize the need for an immersive approach to staff development that will positively influence the attitudes of school staff and school community members and lead to improved identification and support of students living in transition.

Objective 3: Participants will identify multiple tools, strategies and techniques for use in homeless awareness trainings for any audience and learn to select the most appropriate one for particular audiences.

Today’s Agenda

9:00am-10:30am

Introductions & Objectives

Video

Brief Overview of Immersive Awareness & Benefits

Activity 1: What’s in Your Backpack

Activity 2: Book Talk

Activity 3: Clients Journey

10:45am-12:00pm

Kahoot

Implementation Strategies

Introduction to NAEHCY Talks

#slack

Q &A

Break @ 10:30am-10:45am

Video: Poverty USA

What's life like at the poverty line? It's one impossible choice after another—between food and medicine, getting to work or paying the heating bill. But there

are ways out...

https://vimeo.com/35903896

Immersive Activities =

Experiential Learning

Experiential LearningLearning that is considered "experiential" contains all the following elements: ● Opportunities for learners to take initiative, make decisions and be

accountable for the results ● Provides opportunities for learners to engage intellectually,

creatively, emotionally, socially, or physically● Reflection ● Critical analysis and synthesis

Experiential Learning cont.

●Experiential learning is about creating activities based on real-life situations that engage learners/ participants in problem-solving with no predetermined right answers.

●The learning occurs during the reflective process where students assess their decisions in the light of natural consequences, mistakes, and successes.

Immersive Awareness:BENEFITS

• Provides a better understanding of what homeless families and youth may be facing on a daily basis

• Improves understanding of the choices that those experiencing homelessness make, so that staff may better assist students and families

• Positively influences the attitudes of school staff and community members

• Leads to improved identification and support of students living in transition

Immersive Awareness:

BENEFITS Con’t

• Re-energizes liaisons, state coordinators and other staff who provide frequent trainings

• Helps school staff and communities to recognize the broad definition of homelessness and its impact on our students and their learning

• Supports collaboration between communities and schools to provide a wider range of services and supports to ensure student needs are met

Activity 1: What’s in Your BackpackMichelle Mattson, Hart Public Schools McKinney-Vento Liaison

● Many UHY teens in particular carry their lives in a backpack.● For today’s activity we are going to look at the contents of a homeless teen’s

backpack and discuss why they would carry these items with them.

Directions:

At your tables, study the items in the backpack.

Discuss possible reasons why the student would carry these items.

Discussion Questions:

Would you be surprised to find these items in a student’s backpack?

What might they use these unique items for?

How might a homeless student’s backpack be different from the backpacks of their housed peers?

Activity 2: Book TalkJulie Ratekin, Wayne County MI & Sara Orris, Oakland County MI, McKinney-Vento Coordinators

At each table there is a book

There is also a one worksheet per table that we will be collecting.

At your tables please assign a recorder and a reporter.

Activity 3: Walk in Your ShoesJulie Ratekin, Wayne County MI & Sara Orris, Oakland County MI, McKinney-Vento Coordinators

● We are going to take you on a walk through a journey of one of our McKinney-Vento Families.

● As we go along this walk think about your process, procedures and policies.

● Grab a sticky note (or a few) and help us find all of the places where barriers could have been removed for this family or the students

BREAK – 15 Minutes

KahootDirections:

1. Go to the Google App2. Enter Kahoot it3. Log in with the pin # that is displayed on the screen

Sonya Jones, Charleston County School District, SC, McKinney-Vento Program Coordinator

Implementation Panel: What Works?

Nevada

South Carolina

Michigan

CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTLas Vegas, Nevada

◼223 Elementary Schools

◼59 Middle Schools

◼49 High Schools

◼20 Alternative Schools

◼7 Special Schools

◼6 Board-Sponsored Charter Schools

Total Students321,648

364 Schools

2018-2019 Total McKinney-Vento Students: 13,844

INTEREST FLYER & GOALS◼ Engage our Participants

◼ Promote Awareness

◼ Provide an Overview

◼ Share School Specific Statistics

◼ Evoke Empathy

◼ Originally designed for community organizations

◼ Groups played the game with a homeless resident

◼ Spark conversation

◼ Increase awareness

◼ Modified for professional developments◼ Scenario cards

FUN!

ACTIVITY: HOME SWEET HOMELESSNESS(AWARENESS & SENSITIVITY)

ACTIVITY: PRIORITIES(PERSPECTIVE)

◼ Prioritize 14 items:

1. as a district employee

2. as homeless youth

◼ Discussion

CELL PHONERETIREMENT

SHELTER

TITLE I HOPE MINI-CONFERENCE

South Carolina Implementation

Many LEAs Professional Development may include poverty simulations and/or trauma informed/compassionate care models.

Statewide Professional DevelopmentMcKinney-Vento 101Annual Statewide McKinney-Vento ConferencePer request

Poverty Tour USAMobility ShuffleWhat is Your Day Like?

Student PresentationsData, Facts, and the Elephant in the Room

McKinney-Vento in Michigan

Michigan Department of Education

McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Grant Consortia

2017-18

33 Regional MV Grants

83 Counties

908+ School Districts

A statewide issue: over 36,000 homeless students in Michigan

6th largest number of homeless students in the U.S.

10th largest number of students and population overall

State and Local Professional Development

State Conference - Special Populations

Mini Regional Conferences

Poverty Simulation

What happens after a webinar ends?How can we continue the conversation?How do we dig deeper and share resources?Can we connect with others that have similar situations?

This year we have created a way to continue to the conversation after the webinar ends.

NAEHCYTalks

WebinarFollow-up

#slack is a collaborative hub where users can network, share resources, ask questions, work on projects and communicate one-on-one or in groups.#slack is similar to Whats App, Google Hangout Rooms, etc.

As many organizations are turning to #slack, NAEHCY Talks will be the new format utilizing #slack as our webinar follow up!

What is #slack?

https://slack.com/

ImmersiveAwareness

PreCon

1. Take out your phone

2. Open up your camera

3. Hover over the QR code

4. Enter your email address

5. You will automatically join:

#immersive-awareness-precon

1. Click the #slack link in the chat box at the end of

the presentation.

2. Enter your email address.

3. Check your email to verify your account.

4. Confirm your email to join NAEHCY Talks

Workspace.

Following the Webinar you will receive an invitation to join our NAEHCY Talks Workspace and the channel for this webinar.

Joining the Conversation

Channels:

#general: everyone automatically enrolled

#immersive-awareness-precon: enrolled when email is confirmed

#random: just that- random.

Direct Messages:

Ask a question or comment to a specific person rather than the entire channel.

Opportunity to connect offline.

Workspace

naehcytalks.slack.com

#immersive-awareness-precon

● this channel will continue to be available for duration of the 2019 NAEHCY Conference

● presenters will moderate the channel and check in regularly and answer questions as they arise

● participants can direct message other participants through #slack as well.

Channel:

#immersive- awareness-precon

naehcytalks.slack.com

Channel:

#immersive-awareness-precon

naehcytalks.slack.com

TODAY’S RESOURCES●All materials and activities will be posted on the NAEHCY site in a couple of

weeks.

●Since we assume you want to receive them right away, WE WILL POST THESE ON #slack in the #immersive-awareness-precon channel.

● In case you missed it:

Thank you all for participating today!

Contact InformationLinda Mirabal-Pace, South Carolina State MV Coordinator

Kelly-Jo Shebeck, Clark County School District, NV MV Coordinator [email protected]

Julie Ratekin, Wayne County MI Regional MV Coordinator [email protected]

Sara Orris, Oakland County MI Regional MV Coordinator [email protected]

Michelle Mattson, Hart Public Schools MV Liaison [email protected]

Sonya Jones, Charleston County School District, SC, Title I Programs Compliance

Karen Roy, Mecosta-Osceola ISD, MI Regional MV Coordinator