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32 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 19 others. Similarly, discipline data reviewed from the previous two academic school years also indicate that select elementary schools more so than others struggle to reduce the disproportionate student outcomes. Feedback collected from school leaders and the review of strategic data points lead to the recommendation of two additional mental health specialists to serve at two select schools. This recommendation will build on our district's SEL/Mental Health Support Plan to phase in additional mental health support across all school levels and strengthen our programming efforts for increasing greater access based on school needs. Adding two additional supports at the elementary level will increase the SEL/Mental Health Expansion by$192,000. In total, this budget request item includes 10 positions to expand the District's SEL and Mental Health services. The director position will cost $150,000, the 3 Deans of Students will cost $288,000, and the 6 Mental Health Specialists at the middle and elementary levels will cost $576,000. The total cost for these positions will be $1,014,000. Elementary Math and English Intervention $880,000 (Strategic Plan Goals: Student Success) The Board requested that the District consider costs associated with additional personnel who could provide tiered supports in literacy to students not currently meeting grade level standards. A full-time certified interventionist position in each Elementary School that could address COVID-related gaps and accelerate learning for students in both reading and math would be required. Schools could create flexible scheduling to ensure that students are receiving supplemental small group or individualized instruction from the interventionist and not missing core instruction. With a 10-month position, each interventionist would cost approximately $80,000 per year for salary and matching benefits. Adding an interventionist position at all 11 elementary schools requires an additional $880,000 increase to the budget request. Professional Development Office $550,000 (Strategic Plan Goals: Employee Experience and Organizational Effectiveness) The Office of Professional Learning is submitting a budget that is vastly different from the previous years, due to a change in funding structure (ending of the Project Advance Grant), thus causing the need to start from a zero budget, and a need to continue to improve the quality of our human resources and positive impacts on children. During 2020-21, the office supported the work of all divisions as they worked through the closure of school buildings and COVID-19. The department continued to monitor data with regard to the Strategic Plan measures. With the end of Project ADVANCE, the Office of Professional Learning began the work of a district-wide professional learning plan. Next steps include working closely with schools and departments to build a plan and a budget that supports District and school priorities based on data and closely aligned to Student Success and Employee Experience. Initial steps were to carefully review and compile school level professional learning goals as outlined in School Improvement Plans and identify focused ways to support schools through a district plan. This plan will also support teachers in creating equity centered classrooms that support learning for all students. Ultimately, common themes will be analyzed, district professional development vision established, and process for implementation and monitoring will be further developed. 00 Chapel Hill—Carrboro City Schools—FY 2021-22 Recommended Budget empower inspire