Our Framework

Strategic Priority : School Culture

• Improve Student Attendance and Safety
  Improving school culture begins with ensuring students and staff feel safe through improved safety and security practices in each of our schools that incorporate prevention strategies and post-incident management.
• Implement Social and Emotional Learning to Maximize Engagement
• Foster Cultural Competence Across the Organization
  As a district serving students of many backgrounds, it is our job to not only honor diversity but also work exhaustively to promote positive, effective and culturally responsive interactions between students, staff and community members.

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The Social and Emotional Learning and Culture Department operates with an essential framework structure that is modeled after the Multi-Tiered System of Supports framework. Our instruction, interventions, and resources are organized by level of intensity (tiered) and our department roles and responsibilities reflect this structure.

All Social and Emotional Learning and Culture Department members empower campus leadership, integrate SEL into the school climate and culture and classroom instruction, guide campus MTSS/SST processes, and provide SEL training and professional development to staff across the district.

Department roles and responsibilities:

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Tier 1

School Support Specialists

• Support campus MTSS initiatives
  • Develop team capacity
  • Guide action planning and progress monitoring
  • Support Tier 1 schoolwide and classroom systems and interventions
    
• Guide integration of SEL tools and practices into the school environment
  • Support development of positive classroom management systems
  • Support alignment of SEL and academic content and skills
  • Collaborate around improvement of school climate and culture
    
• Build campus capacity around MTSS, SEL, and relevant practices
• Monitor the districtwide implementation of TLAC strategies

Tier 2

Licensed Mental Health Professionals

• Crisis response for students and staff
• Provide group counseling and individual counseling
• Provide resources and wraparound service referrals
• Conduct outreach and follow-up regarding clinical interventions as well as safety planning
• Provide psychoeducation to students and families
• Facilitates staff developments regarding mental health and local agency resources

Tier 3

Licensed Specialists in School Psychology

• Guide appropriate next steps for Tier 3 behaviors
• Support school teams in the development of individual behavior plans
• Provide behavior consultation to school personnel and families
• Review outside psychological reports
• Provide crisis intervention support for staff and students