We will extend our equity work into 2020 and beyond by remaining committed to our M.T.S.S. model as well as open to its refinement. Currently, we envision rebranding the study center as our school’s learning hub and making it a permanent, central, and fluid fixture. This year, students have to be scheduled in the study center and must stay throughout the hour. As we move toward more peer and adult support, we envision this learning space functioning similarly to a university’s writing lab where peer and adult experts are available for students to drop in and utilize throughout each period of the school day, a space where all students are welcome at any time.

Additionally, we are committed to continuing to allocate resources to support teachers in the classroom. After engaging monthly in instructional rounds in the 2019-2020 school year, we hope to offer additional, more targeted options for classroom observations including shadowing students who may be struggling emotionally and/ or academically. We would like to use this system as well to visit and focus on the practices of teachers who are already doing equity work, following these visits with reflective conversations about the preparation that may go into such a lesson and celebrating as well as lifting the practices that may make these best practices more widespread. In addition to these learning experiences, we are committed to continuing to work with teachers in coaching cycles meeting for a planning conversation, delivering instruction, and reflecting on student data.