Start by engaging your entire school community in identifying your Why – what do you believe every student should be able to do to be successful.  Here is a possible tool:

WHY?

Our students, families, community, and school believe that every student should _____________________ ___________________________in order to be successful in our school and community now and as adults.

In order to achieve our why, every students needs these critical skills:
AcademicCognitiveSocialEmotionalBehavioral
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to learn more about a framework for improving students’ academic, cognitive and mental health outcomes, click on the “Learn More” link below to read Advancing Education Effectiveness: Interconnecting School Mental Health and School-wide Positive Behavior Support.  It outlines the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF), a structure for embedding evidence-based school mental health practices into a Multi-Tiered System of Support.  Read the overview on pp. 1-2 & Chapter 1, An Introduction to the Interconnected Systems Framework (pp. 3-17).

Appendix B of this document (pp. 134-135) provides a templated structure for answering four key questions that can help a community begin to align systems in order to improve student outcomes.
1.  Who cares about this issue and why?
2. What work is already underway separately?
3. What shared work could unite us?
4. How can we deepen our connections?

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