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Calvert prepares community‑school pilots, trains restorative‑practice facilitators for every school
Summary
District staff told the committee it has established a community schools implementation team, plans to identify initial community schools (including a school‑based coordinator and health practitioner in year one), and will train a restorative‑practice facilitator for every school next year.
Dr. Gruver said Pillar 4 focuses on nonacademic supports and community school models to ensure that "students are healthy and able to learn and participate fully in school." She told the committee that Calvert currently has no designated community schools but expects at least one school (including the Calvert County public separate day school) to be identified and piloted, with a personnel grant to hire a school‑based community schools coordinator and a health practitioner for the first year.
The district plans building‑level restorative practice facilitators—trained staff who will coach colleagues and support classroom climate and conflict resolution. Committee members asked whether those facilitators will be new full‑time positions or additional duties for existing staff; presenters said the facilitators will be current staff members trained to provide services at the building level and that initial training used some grant funds but ongoing training can be sustained at the building level.
