Strategic Priority 2 -
Cultivate Student Belonging & Well-Being
To inspire growth and engagement, each student thrives in a safe and supportive environment where their academic, social, emotional, and behavioral health needs are met, and has equitable opportunities to co-create and shape their experiences.
Key Strategies
Foster instructional belonging:
- Promote student voice and self-advocacy by partnering with students to co-create learning.
- Support students’ social-emotional needs and create a restorative, safe, and supportive learning environment.
Focus on behavioral health: Ensure students have access to behavioral health services through school-based problem-solving teams, direct services, and partnerships with community providers.
Expand access to advanced-level courses: Remove barriers and increase access to and success in rigorous college and career ready coursework.
Amplify student voice: Support students’ leadership and creativity in ways that honor student dignity and affirm identity.
Ensure fair and clear expectations: Prepare staff to co-create classroom community norms with students and consistently implement the Student Code of Conduct to eliminate disproportionality.
Goals
- Reduce student chronic absenteeism rates and minimize disparities across student groups.
Explore Priority 2 / Goal 1 - Increase percent of students participating in advanced programs including college and career ready pathways and challenging courses and minimize disparities across student groups.
Explore Priority 2 / Goal 2 - Reduce disproportionate suspension rates.
Explore Priority 2 / Goal 3 - Improve school climate survey ratings.
Explore Priority 2 / Goal 4
