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    equity and excellence year 1 Claim 1 My leadership has sought to promote the importance of adventure education and its

    value in supporting academic resilience for all students, especially students of color and historically marginalized students. The 4H Challenge Course was built at Camp Long to specifically work with students in south Seattle. (Standard 1b) Evidence 1 Historically, challenge courses (ropes courses) were attended by both ends of the 'bell curve": the motivated leadership classes (front of bell curve) and a behavioral class of students at risk (back of the bell curve). In our first year in the fall of 2011, West Seattle HS sent an intervention class (made up of students falling through the cracks), while Chief Sealth HS sent a leadership class. In the spring of 2013, I reached out to Interagency High School to send out their entire grades from their campuses across the city. The school participated 3 different times, bringing roughly seventy 9th grade students out across six different campuses. In fall 2013, Interagency,

    Mountaineers, and Camp Long will embark on an adventure education model to give every student 3-5 adventure education experiences. (source: 4H Challenge Course enrollment 2011-2013) Claim 2 My leadership has sought to strengthen our Camp Long Challenge Collaborative (CCC) Partnership, bringing in new partners who work exclusively with historically underrepresented students. (Standards 1c) Evidence 2 Through the Department of Neighborhoods grant compounded with the King County Parks grant, Camp Long was funded $120,00 to build the new high course in 2012

    (the low course was already built from a 4H grant). Through the grant, money was set aside to do several 5-day low course facilitator trainings for non-profit partners, who worked with youth in King County. The first training was rather random with some obvious recreational partners like the Mountaineers, but also Southwest Youth and Family Services (SWYFS) and Renton Area Youth and Family Services (RAYS). However, we only had about 30% buy-in from the non-profits. In fall 2012-winter 2013, I took over the process of recruitment from the Camp Long Advisory Council and pursued groups like Student Conservation Association, Neighborhood HouseHigh Point, Outdoor For All, etc. Through my greater investment in the selection process, we have created a closer partnership with select non-profits, who in turn bring youth to the Challenge Course at Camp Long. For example, Neighborhood House has used the course this season six times, the most of any of our partners. (source: 4H Challenge Course enrollment 2013 vs, 2012, 2011) Areas of future growth - Seattle Parks and Recreation is a leader under City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI), and several of my facilitators (Shan, Sebastian, Carl) are actively involved in this committee. As a white male from an industry that is almost exclusively white, and mostly male (adventured education- Outward Bound, Project Adventure) and sometimes find difficulty finding my voice. (Standard 1e) - Seattle Parks and Recreation has a substantial amount of grant money from Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative (SYVPI), a lot of it is aimed at job readiness programs. SYVPI has supported 2 teen facilitator trainings, so these students in turn can work with teens in our 'Late Night' program. Through my leadership, I have advocated for giving more teens an adventure education experience of 12-15 hours (34 challenge visits) to promote academic resilience. I have made the argument that the

    training first before experience is "equivalent to teaching life guards who cannot swim". This is an ongoing mission of mine. (Standard 1b)

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