for coming and being with us today is a conversation moving gauge shoe of the individuals who are making such a great difference and bringing about change in both  save grant the save grant might help structure to prevent and bring about change in violence on the campuses yes yes and what we do is partnered up with the assistance of our committed community partners as well as the afterschool programs and the anti violence the anti bullying curriculum that we are utilizing in the school and amongst the community is assisting us in bringing down the violen within newtown and there's a certain percentage of our students who are on free or reduced lunch that is disproportionate say anywhere else in the county so we booked middle school kids have different challenges and different environmental have i would say it's so much more structured they're given a lot more freedom in middle school but we're dealing with a preview and so many hormones in different stuff that we're dealing with so we also feel like that would be a good target to start if we start in the middle we can work our way up and the quality or the student definitely i can say that we've seen a lot of changes around the campaigns as of now the two years we have twenty four percent of the decrease in violence on and around the campaign so that is a big as the term for being expelled that reduction yes definitely and that is also a part of what we're doing one of our partners our community partners is the jewish jewish through with children and families to raise services yes and they they have created a program called they taught so with the safe alternatives out of school suspension so when a child is in trouble instead of just putting them out of school for anywhere from one to ten days they keep them in school they give them some you know some services some counseling and well that's going to their regular daily schedule you know we see these alternative  to become part of that deal the school so i can tell you from the mental health perspective and i can let him to tell you more about the parenting aspect of it but from the mental health perspective we have a great team at the school called the school life support team and they meet together every tuesday and they work continuously if there's a student who needs services and they haven't been able to receive the services they go back and make that contact with the parents and so from there the parent is able to completely understand what services are being provided for their student the student and how exactly they can help their student and many other parents are completely willing in opening up and when we open that door i say this is the services and this is why in the are completely open and understanding of the service and they do everything in their power to make sure that there's no everything's that service which is very good and you are not a prophet is he was i make in a book a middle school more of a community school and want more welcoming for the parents to it influencing gays because of a parent engages in and they chat education that reduces violence they reduce it to behavior problems that increases their chance to be successful in the classroom and how we do that we do that through the united way we develop programming for the parents so they can have at your partnerships community ponders a number of organizations who have come together to see that this grant and is a five year grant that that and we're in the second year of that have to acknowledge is coastal i believe who has provided the behavior which is provided something unique to the system itself yes definitely you have an actual account they have an  actual trip on our campus so that is a better place based there's no need for the parent to have to take their students out of the community to go to you know if it's too far it doesn't matter it's place based so the parents and the student can receive the services directly on  are seeing a almost dear friends in these three years not only parents students but we're seeing an elevated grade level the kids are coming away with a a a stronger base and foundation year educationally let's just venture off into some of the other things that you're doing and when you mention a c and i i know that we are also looking at some other opportunities that may be available to this portion of the community in the coming days and would you like to speak on that then there's a gratification and there's a influence and there's a positive connotation placed on school and education and you can feel it it's gonna hard to explain but if you can sort of book a middle school campus you can feel there's a different different atmosphere  interactions recurs many of the students that are in book committal this year will go to the high school year and many of them also have younger siblings following n the next coming through because i know you recognize family quick but we seeing any good examples yes definitely and one of the things that we're actually working on now is having some of the students from behaving the fifth graders that behave in elementary school come to booker middle school and face some of the great things that we're doing as far as college family student which is one of our more positive that's a bit early for students to start looking at a future it hasn't always been the norm within our community to start preparing children label as this or that and to take away those labels at an early age these children that you're working with aren't the next generation the future and the difference being made here changes of family and and it also changes the student i'm concerned that this five year project it is going to be replicated in other areas not only of the county in sarasota but throughout the state and other areas when we see this happen and because of the dynamics of persons like yourselves who have a willingness to go forward and do yours when the both of you have had a lot of this in this process because the project itself the save grant was designed  let the local community bill its own structure and stay in there i know that you do a lot you've set up a website and yes we have a facebook page now all of our a program and now the possibility are you hearing the adults of the community making themselves available we can we can lead a horse to water but we can't make the horse drink and say in the air but so true are you seeing a person's warning to be a part of these programs that you are providing and  that every day probably three to four times a day they're called in the front office action with the next program when it's in a program start and when i'm out in the community individuals approach me action about programming grateful and she's she's like our advertisement she goes around telling the gospel  and the near future and the way the children and the antiviolence be briefly that sure i think that some of the things that we're looking further into whether it's engineering we put it into a middle school aspect of engineering robotics and different things like that so there's that aspect of it we are also trying to get a health care going so hopefully beginning of the school year we can work on that everything that they need before registration starts and it's completely aware of the mental health earth that being provided on the campus and at the elementary school level and the high school though is well working on restorative strategies in the classroom and we're  hoping to continue that and hopefully at the beginning of the year we can have our new teachers exposed to this as well so we're trying to get that playing restored our strategies basically if there's a hostile situation going on and one classroom we have our behavioral special mission it she will pull them from the hostile environment into the new train vironment as a whole class they will sit like a round table for everyone will sit in a circle form yet everyone form and pretty much air out what she called the dirty laundry  so that they can get back to the learning in the environment they set a classroom goal and then they set an individual goal a couple of weeks later they come back out of the hostile environment back into the environment and evaluate this if we do peer mediation so that peers are evaluating each other so that's another thing that we're working on so as far as five years from now i hope that all of this is stability is continuing at the school and hopefully we can we can utilize the services at booker booker high school and book elementary restored process and you take the whole of the environment and put it into a neutral it's a simple so i'm really interested in seeing this body the class itself there has to be certain family structure within the class mean there's a certain ship that is built and yes it's building a community is what we what we call it the classroom community is exactly what we call it and so by the end of the what we'll think that the sessions by the end of the fashion there will be there the community will be formed now once we go back to the once hostile environment now what will become the nature of army because now we have two minutes who aren't afraid to say what's what's going wrong in the classroom we have a teacher who is in this very afraid to be vocal about the different things that she's experiencing so that if it does occur again she can go back to the neutral environment we also have a classroom that is now teach important because even though a student may be acting out in another class it may not come directly from that class that they're agone out that maybe they weren't able to get that lesson in the clay in the previous class that they were in because there's so much going on in that classroom it to fix that problem you never know it may fifth and to the point of taking on responsibility and accountability yes and that and that's one of the big the biggest thing educators have to remember the purpose and the whole point of a school is education in such a campus as yours you're within that population you may have two or three siblings from the spring family and do we see active out amongst the three or  d so much relieved that impressed with the work that we're seeing be and twenty four percent reduction in the student violence the end to bullying and so we do have because we can carry this conversation on for some time let me just say in the way do we see repeat offenders have you we have a certain