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PPS Community Schools v2.1
1. Five in 2017-18 school year
PPS Community Schools
+ Aquatics = Greatness
Opportunity to make a splash.
From mark@rauterkus.com
Swim & Water Polo Coach
2. Executive summary, part 1 of 2
Contract for Coach Mark Rauterkus
as Aquatics Director for
PPS Community Schools
• Expand Summer Dreamers Swim &
Water Polo to Year-Round Aquatic
Achievers
• Grow Varsity Club, Sports Camps, and
enrichment programs with sponsors
and wide-reaching participation
• Exclude aquatics from PFT contract
3. New start-up budget, as line of credit:
$100,000 staff
• 1 Aquatic Director/Head Coach
• 6 Lifeguards/Assistant coaches
• 3 sites
• 4 hours per day
• 6 days a week
• Year round
Executive summary, part 2 of 2
Swim pools, equipment, sponsorships and user
fees available and expected.
Projects, planning and procedure to come.
4. What is a community school?
Opening questions
Philosophy, perspectives,
public duty, agents of change,
mission, teamwork
5. Definition:
• Community Schools partner with local community
agencies to provide an integrated focus on academics,
health and social services, youth and community
development, and community engagement.
• Many operate year-round, from morning to evening.
• Many serve both children and adults.
6. Our city of Three Rivers loves sports!
Pittsburgh
We are a sports town. Sports
excite our community and its
kids. Sports passions can build
transferable skills to academic
scholarship, spirit, goal setting,
wellness.
7. Sports: In or Out?
We know just how impactful athletics,
sports, and recreation can be in our
students’ lives
• Sports helps our students grow in and
outside the classroom
• Athletics and recreation create healthy
lifestyles that can last a lifetime
• Sports can be the best bridge among
communities for PPS Community
Schools
Sadly, in urban Pittsburgh, we sometimes forget and discount the positive
role athletics, sports, and recreation can have in students’ lives
Throughout the last 8 years we have seen the positive role of
sports, athletics, and recreation every year at our PPS Summer
Dreamers Swim and Water Polo Camp
8. All American and WPIAL Record Breaker, Sead Niksic, of PPS Obama Academy give an interview.
Swimming can lead
the way
• Foundation sport
• Build upon success
• Year round
• Physical education and health in schools
• Citiparks facilities and people
• Drowning prevention, safety
• Lifeguard jobs, CPR, nursing too
• All age groups, even adult and seniors
• River town
• Lifelong skills
• Popular among students
9. Let’s use our pools!
PPS Community Schools
are endowed with great
aquatic facilities
• Swim pools are the learning
laboratories for the discovery of
personal and group excellence
• Resource exists (5 of 6 community
schools have pools)
• Most capital investments have been
made
• Swimming is cheap
• Water does not wear out
12. PPS Community Schools is an
opportunity for our schools and
communities to better embrace our pools
What type of changes are expected?
Process
&/or
Projects
13. PPS Community Schools can be a disruptive change
By integrating athletics, sports, and
recreation with these Community
Schools we can create an even bigger
impact
• For me, integrating aquatics into
Community Schools can create positive
dividends
• Just like the positive dividends our
aquatic programs have created for PPS
Summer Dreamers
For this to be successful we must create a two way partnership that removes restrictive and
harmful barriers
14. Aquatics at PPS Community Schools can help change Summer Dreamers to Year-Round
Achievers!
Let's improve BOTH
process and projects
Goal: Build and lead
programs suitable for my own
children
15. • Success with Swim and Water Polo Camp at
Summer Dreamers from the start
• More than 1,500 PPS students have participated
in our camps in past 10 years
• Learning success in the pool has lead to success
out of the pool
• Our campers school attendance rates are always
higher than average rates
• Our campers often go on to join their school
swim teams or find other ways to stay active
after camp participation
• After coaching more than 10,000 swimmers, 10
years in PPS, 9 years at NCAA level, in addition to a
variety of WPIAL and PIAA programs, we have
developed an aquatics curriculum that has proven
success for city students
Been there. Done (and
doing) that.
16. PPS Community Schools gives us the opportunity to turn these
summer successes into wide-reaching, year-round, robust activities.
17. To create year-round success we must address
ownership and coordination
Historic barriers:
Lack of aquatics leader
• People are busy - without someone dedicated to
aquatics things don’t happen or don’t happen
as well
Lack of district wide coordination
• Athletic initiatives and ideas can get siloed
Lack of successful coordination between district
and year round aquatics programs
• This is a big district and coordination can be
hard, however, as we have seen with aquatic
programs during Summer Dreamers - when
aquatics (and sports at large) are successful
integrated with academics - great things happen
Our solutions:
Create an aquatics director role
• Someones who can focus on creating diverse and
integrated district wide aquatics programs - as I have
done within PPS Summer Dreamers
With one aquatics director - coordination is easy
• Athletic initiatives and ideas can grow and thrive -
helping students thrive in many ways
By building on and consolidating our current success
we can create a vibrant year round aquatics program
that supports the district’s goals for Community Schools
• By creating a person that can coordinate and support
the success we are already having - we can provide our
students with increased opportunities with year round
aquatics - Community Schools gives us an unique
opportunity to carry out these goals
18. Coach Mark’s coordinated aquatics program delivers an
Aligned Instructional System
• Let's align city-wide aquatics, raise expectations, cooperate
and compete
• With a coordinated focus we can align our aquatics goals
with our academic mission
• Me must move beyond building-based decisions that have
not been successful in supporting or funding dynamic
aquatic programs
• In addition, our aligned instructional system can create
tailored solutions that fit specific communities, pools,
equipment, coaches, and players
• Let's start with core district-wide programs to reside within
PPS Community Schools
19. Summary: The solution needs:
❖ Exclude the coaching positions within
aquatics (competitive swimming) from the
scope of the PFT contract.
❖ Assign an administrative post, PPS
AQUATICS DIRECTOR responsibilities.
❖ Staffing and programming of after-school
aquatic efforts (including interscholastic
swimming) in certain PPS facilities* resides
within the authority of the Aquatics Director.
❖ PPS Aquatics Director manages pools and
programs and leads a coordinated approach
with principals, custodians, coaches,
lifeguards, staff, athletic coordinators, site
coordinators, nonprofit providers, sponsors,
families, students and community
participants.
20. Well begun is half done.
Less desired:
Last minute challenges.
I can start now.
Can we begin?
Began a decade ago.
21. Question of Ownership or Partnerships
❖ Control matters.
❖ Who is in charge?
❖ Who gets access?
❖ Who gets invited to planning meetings, as it isn't found
within the framework of Summer Dreamers Activity
Providers
❖ Administration, Union, or outsiders
22. Where are the boundaries? What sandbox?
❖ PPS: Own and invest in a Rec Center model that
energizes aquatics and athletics around the PPS
Community Schools.
❖ Existing school pools serve as the prime setting.
❖ The sandbox should be owned, operated and controlled
by PPS.
❖ Reverse the tide of closed facilities.
23. Suggestions for this sandbox
❖ Let's launch and spin out programs, incubator style.
❖ Let's form common sense partnerships.
❖ Let's grow and manage services and programs for
enrichment and economic energies.
❖ Let's embrace and obtain control of some strategic pieces.
❖ Let's learn and practice "Playing Well with Others."
❖ Let's progress in deliberate, measured, proactive acts of
leadership.
24. Begin with PPS Community Schools plus Obama, Sci-Tech and Oliver
Phase 1
Places where Coach Mark
currently operates, and PPS
Community Schools
25. Add partners: Trees Hall = Team Pittsburgh at Pitt, Sarah Heinz House and PPS UPrep
Phase 2
USA Swimming's new FLEX
MEMBERSHIPS help, plus it's
Diversity & Inclusion efforts.
26. The Pittsburgh Project on Northside and Citiparks Ammon in The Hill District
Phase 3 Outdoor pools used for past
summers.
27. Growth, expansion, capacity building with different populations
Phase 4,
expectations
Chatham University, Thelma
Lovette YMCA, Citiparks
Oliver Bath House, PPS
Brashear
28. Does PPS aim to grow or preserve equity?
Offense or Defense?
Make gains or guard?
Open or close?
Of course, PPS needs to be sensible and
prudent.
I hope PPS goes on the offense.
Let's expand facility use in under utilized
assets.
29. Play offense!
❖ The swim pools are a
wonderful place to play
offense, refine
communication methods
and engage with a wide-
reaching community.
30. Experiences
❖ PPS steering committee, Parent Education Resource Centers, PERCs
❖ PPS Athletic Reform Task Force
❖ PPS Summer Dreamers, from start
❖ Sprout Fund, Digital Badges grant, Remake Learning
❖ Afterschool, YMCA, Clubs, Parks
❖ Take A Father To School Day, committee 10+ years
❖ Coach more than 10,000 swimmers, 10 years in PPS, 9 in NCAA, 6
states, WPIAL
32. Aligned Instructional System
❖ #Fail: Building based decisions have not
been successful in supporting nor funding
dynamic aquatic programs.
❖ Services must fit specific pools, equipment,
coaches, players.
❖ Let's align city-wide aquatics, raise
expectations, cooperate and compete.
❖ Let's start with core district-wide programs
to reside within PPS Community Schools.
33. An aligned instructional system, a PPS goal, requires:
Ownership, operation and oversight of key elements.
.
❖ First year objective: Aquatics.
❖ Aquatics leads to Athletics, Sports, Recreation.
❖ All-City Varsity Club
❖ All-City Sports Camps
❖ S6
34. Sport, Spirit & Soul, Song & Story Summit
S6 . CLOH.org
Sports lecture series with spotlight events.
Includes music on stage.
Sell season subscriptions and sponsorships.
Planning events.
Technology and literacy components.
Projection: $200k per year.
35.
36. Inorganic growth, co-op, fortify, mergers
❖ CAPA's "Centers" on Saturdays formed to seed string talent
❖ PPS Parent Education Resource Centers (PERCs) steering committee
❖ Allderdice has JCC Sailfish using pool
❖ Gifted Center had a Summer Gifted Camp
❖ Freedom School at Westinghouse, Weil
❖ Activity providers at Summer Dreamers
❖ APOST, "The Zone" (UPrep)
❖ Neighborhood Learning Alliance's Reading Warriors
❖ BGC's College and Career Readiness Program
❖ Promise Readiness Corps
❖ 4-H
❖ Urban Impact
❖ The Pittsburgh Project
❖ Hosanna House
❖ Sarah Heinz House
❖ Learn & Earn
Examples:
37. Projects include:
❖ Staffing (recruit, cultivate, train, manage)
❖ Recruitment of kids and families
❖ Recruitment of boosters
❖ Recruitment of community participants
❖ Refine lessons (digital badges)
❖ Plan competitions: home and away
❖ Seek finance support (grants, sponsors, events, fees)
38. Process and procedure tasks:
❖ Internal communication (BOE, buildings, faculty)
❖ Permits / facilities (Long term commitment, micro hurdles)
❖ Outreach to wider PPS and region
❖ Career (lifeguard, future teachers, CPR)
❖ Varsity Club (database, NCAA, PIAA, ethos, socialize)
❖ HPERD (health, p.e., recreation, dance)
❖ Remake summers and vacations (parks)
❖ Travel teams
❖ S6, (teach tech, talent visitors, literacy enrichment)