Supported

Each student is supported by qualified, caring adults in ways that address each student's individual needs and circumstances.

Central to a supportive school are teachers, administrators, and other caring adults who take a personal interest in each student. Research shows that supportive schools also help prevent a host of negative consequences, including isolation, violent behavior, dropping out of school, and engaging in self-harm. Schools and communities committed to educating the whole child connect students with caring adults throughout a student's school career through a variety of positive relationships. These relationships reinforce academic achievement and social, civic, ethical, and emotional development.

MCSD Indicators

Personalized Learning: Our school personalizes learning, including the flexible use of time and scheduling to meet academic and social goals for each student.
Student Progress: Our schools' teachers use a range of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment tasks to monitor student progress, provide timely feedback, and adjust teaching-learning activities to maximize student progress.
Relationships: Our school ensures that adult-student relationships support and encourage each student's academic and personal growth.
Multi-Tiered System of Support: Our school ensures each student has access to school counselors and other structured academic, social, and emotional supports.
Data-Informed Decisions: Our school staff understands and makes curricular, instructional, and school improvement decisions based on child and adolescent development and student performance information.
Families as Partners: Our school personnel welcome and include all families as partners in their children's education and significant members of the school community.
Equitable Communication: Our school uses a variety of methods across languages and cultures to communicate with all families and community members about the school's vision, mission, goals, activities and opportunities for students.
Family Advocacy: Our school helps families understand available services, advocate for their children's needs and support their children's learning.
Qualified: Our school staff is well qualified and properly credentialed.
Role Models: Our schools' adults who interact with students both within the school and through extracurricular, co-curricular, and community-based experiences teach and model prosocial behavior.

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