The MC2 staff comprises of a complement of salaried teacher/advisors, hourly special education support staff, and adjunct, community-based mentors and instructors. The tools in this section are intended to help all staff improve their interactions with students, whether they are focused on academic progress, behaviors, social-emotional learning, or some combination of all three.

Model up, model down.

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• Advisory - these blocks of time, and instructional routines, are an integral part of how we enculturate students into the MC2 model and also introduce them to important concepts like goal-setting, reflection, and metacognition.
• Learning Teams and Exhibitions - Not your typical "Parent-teacher conferences," Learning Teams are a collaborative process that balances student, parent, and advisor voices.
• Coaching: Instructional Framework (TCTEF) - When designing learning for any of the four learning opportunity types, we use the Thoughtful Classroom model, described here.
• Coaching: Restorative Practices - Many of our community structures use restorative practices to mitigate behaviors that harm the community. When poor choices do exist, we use restorative practices in our due process and in determining consequences.
• Coaching: Think Kids - Often staff need to coach students through challenging situations and behaviors, and the Think Kids approach is a trauma-informed system that prioritizes empathic listening and collaborative problem solving.
• Coaching: NDFL - When demystifying how brains work and learning preferences, we use the Q.E.D. Foundation's "All Kinds of Minds" Neruodevelopmental Framwork for Learning.
• Special Education - Integrated special education services is an important element of our model, so all staff need to be familiar and fluent in best practices and extenuating needs.
• Learning Remotely - While COVID-19 accelerated the process, MC2 was already piloting alternative pathways for students who needed to work remotely towards their diploma. These are our evolving best practices.

Below you can see some of our hallmark documents and resources that span multiple areas of adult interactions- especially ones that overlap multiple categories listed above.