{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Whole Child: Personalized Tiered Supports","title":"Whole-Child Supports, Unified Wellness Teams, and Managed Autonomy with Dr. Sally Parish","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2694,"description":"In this episode of Whole Child: Personalized Tiered Supports, host Naren Balasubramaniam welcomes Dr. Sally Parish, Vice Provost and Director of Schools at the University of Memphis, for a conversation about what whole child support looks like when a school district is built inside a university. It is the show's first conversation with a leader who works across both the higher education and K–12 spaces.\nSally shares how University Schools grew from roughly 300 students into the state's first Innovative School District serving about 1,500 children across early childhood sites, two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school that graduated its first class this past May. She explains why her team opened schools first and built the district structure around them, how the university's nursing, social work, psychology, and teacher education faculty become part of the student support model, and why success at University Schools is defined as every child reaching their personal best rather than a single proficiency benchmark. That definition extends past academics: her staff know whether a student had dinner last night, whether the power is on at home, and whether something is happening in the family that would change what a child needs that day.\nListeners will also hear how the district's Wellness Center gives families one entry point instead of a phone tree, bringing social work, psychology, nursing, speech, and special education practitioners to the same table alongside the university interns they are training. Sally and Naren dig into bridging the traditional silos between academics, attendance, behavior, and health, why leadership in a whole child system is about influence rather than position, and how teachers manage classrooms where students span several grade levels in both directions. She also describes what it takes to make whole child support a durable operating model rather than a person-dependent one, and closes with the challenge on her mind for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0-4hbmX1UOIqSlMqbkRGvjcw8wO80pZIXRhZJs1jZFw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82YmFl/MjcyOTgzYjYzNGJl/MzgzMDNlYzQxOTEx/NDk5YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}