Vision SMTX Appendix Adopted 2024

APPENDIX D: POLICY BASELINE AND DEVELOPMENT

· Ensure that every child has a medical home: a regular medical care provider that can monitor a child’s health and wellness. · Build engaging and supportive networks and systems throughout the education lifecycle · Provide full-day, universal pre-k for 4-year-olds in the SMCISD (based on recommendations by the core four’s early childhood subcommittee.) · Support teachers, principals, and schools in improving student and teacher engagement in the learning environment. · Establish a collaborative and universal mentorship and tutoring program to reach students from elementary to early college, utilizing peer-based and mentoring models that emphasize social interaction during out-of-school time in community-based programs. · Expand modes of learning and what counts as learning and instruction from elementary school age through high school — both in schools and within the broader community — through expanded learning opportunities and in partnership with community-based organizations, community colleges and cultural institutions. · Improve communications, coordination, and community engagement in support of children and youth · Increase community awareness about available programs and services. · Develop a strategic plan of implementation across the age continuum that coordinates services and increases involvement of key organizations and institutions. · Create youth positions for city government, school board, and other councils and commissions, modeled after the existing city council associated student government student liaison position or the planning and zoning commission university student liaison position. The San Marcos Commission on Children and Youth and the San Marcos Youth Commission have been dissolved as City Boards and are now under the leadership of the Youth Services Director at Community Action, Inc.

SAN MARCOS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2024

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