Administrative Services
Highlighting the latest happenings of the grant-funded collaboration with the ACHD
About a year ago, McKeesport Area’s administration had heard about Pressley Ridge’s YESS (Youth Engagement Support Services) team model.The YESS team — which was piloted at the Penn Hills school district — focuses on helping address issues like truancy, while also […]
During an expansive and informative presentation, Robert Reed, the Pennsylvania executive deputy attorney general for special initiatives, highlighted the immense impact that trauma has on school-aged children. “Trauma is the number one cause of most childhood adversity,” said Reed. With that […]
Cornell superintendent Aaron Thomas looks around a room in his school and sees chairs. Lots and lots of chairs. This room used to be a planetarium before eventually turning into a storage room for chairs and cabinets and various relics of […]
As Shannon Wanless reflected on a unique day of social-emotional learning collaboration and discussion, she came away beaming with optimism. Wanless, the Director of the Office of Child Development at the University of Pittsburgh, has long been a champion of social-emotional […]
A few years ago, the University of Pittsburgh and the Office of Child Development started pitching a program about positive racial identity, entitled P.R.I.D.E (Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education). No institution felt comfortable taking on the program, so the […]
The V.I.B.E program — a three-person violence intervention and prevention team at Sto-Rox— stands for Violence Intervention Building Empowerment, but Hassain Estes, the leader of the program, likes to sometimes refer to them as something else. “Personally, I feel like we’ve […]
The Duquesne City School District makes equity a priority. On a day-to-day basis, the district is constantly looking for new ways to properly access and educate each and every student equally. Lucy McDonough, the district’s special education consultant, has furthered those […]
Years of experience in the grant and evaluation realm have taught Sheila Bell a number of things. Chief among them: good intentions can’t reach their potential without fully formed plans. Project SEEKS SES is an initiative that started off with good […]
A couple of years ago, Anna Arlotta Guerrero realized that a teacher shortage was on the horizon. Guerrero, an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pittsburgh, said a perfect confluence of factors has led the profession down this road. […]
When discussing why the Allegheny County Heath Department (ACHD) chose the AIU to facilitate Project SEEKS SES, ACHD acting director Patrick Dowd said the choice was simple. “We had to find a partner that could do a bunch of things at […]
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Shannon Fagan, Project SEEKS SES Coordinator
412-909-7448