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Board praises student mental wellness supports, urges better tracking and student leadership
Summary
Board members praised this year’s district mental-wellness efforts, urged better tracking of mentoring/attachment metrics, and suggested engaging student leaders to address social media’s effects on adolescent anxiety and depression.
Board members used the June 20 meeting to highlight and praise district mental-wellness work and to press for improved measurement and student-led approaches.
An unnamed board member commended staff: “You are...truly doing wonderful work,” and cited a monthly lesson approach that reached every student as well as follow-up supports by faculty. That speaker encouraged the district to develop a rigorous tracking system that captures not only student participation in programs but also mentoring relationships and attachments to the school community, saying such data matter for academics and school safety.
Board members and staff discussed the limits of imposing adult-led rules on social media use and emphasized peer-to-peer strategies. As one board member put it, recruiting student leaders to persuade peers to change social-media habits has shown some success in smaller or private-school settings and could be adapted here.
The superintendent (unnamed in the excerpt) noted that much current Project 2 work is internal to the building in preparation for demolition and that the district has been asked by other districts for implementation resources on phone/cell policies; a time-lapse camera and a Project 2 dashboard will be posted on the district facilities website.
Next steps: board members asked district staff to consider how to add a data lens to wellness programming (tracking student counts, mentoring relationships and program reach) and to return recommendations shaped by the board self-evaluation and retreat planning cycle.
