SSF Lever 6:

Systems and Structures

Systems and Structures are defined as a school’s consistent procedures and routines that support the establishment of daily operations and avenues for schools to create commonality across all settings. Implementing whole-school consistent practices should be established from board policy through district expectations into classrooms for individual student success. Systems and structures refer to various processes in schools that encompass global expectations of individual student needs as well as individual student support through the Student Support Team (SST) process and beyond. It is a proactive, team-oriented, committee structure to assist students with a wide range of non-academic needs related to their school performance and experience.

  • Establish a formalized group of educators who meet regularly to address individual student concerns in Tiers 2 and 3 while building capacity in adults

    • Key Practice 6.1.1: Multidisciplinary Student Support Team

      • Create and sustain a multidisciplinary Student Support Team tasked with oversight of student supports.

    • Key Practice 6.1.2: Efficient MTSS Meetings

      • Create a cadence of meetings to implement and evaluate the MTSS.

    • Key Practice 6.1.3: Analyze Needs

      • Utilize data-based decision-making to analyze student needs.

    • Key Practice 6.1.4: Oversee Prevention

      • Provide oversight of effective universal prevention strategies.

    • Key Practice 6.1.5: Interventions and Resources

      • Provide evidence-based interventions and resources to support learning for identified students.

    • Key Practice 6.1.6: Setting Goals

      • Set individual student goals for participation in Tier 2 or Tier 3 programming.

    • Key Practice 6.1.7: Unify Supports

      • Collaborate with and support other teams and committees on campus to provide unified supports.

  • Proactive, consistent, clear, and caring communication to create collaboration and engagement between a school district, its campuses, staff, families, and community to keep families informed and engaged in student well-being

    • Key Practice 6.2.1: Positive Communication

      • Deliver warm, timely, and proactive communication that creates and maintains healthy relationships with all stakeholders and helps families understand changes in student supports.

    • Key Practice 6.2.2: Align Goals

      • Align communication between school goals, objectives, and student support systems to ensure consistent and coherent messaging.

    • Key Practice 6.2.3: Communication to Support Families

      • Clear, proactive communication enhances family involvement and buy-in by providing timely updates on student well-being supports, informing parents of changes in services or monitoring, sharing information in advance of well-being check-ins or screenings, creating opportunities for questions, and partnering with families to seek input and consent when appropriate.

    • Key Practice 6.2.4: Clear, Concise, and Timely

      • Deliver clear, concise, and timely communication that uses accessible systems to help families track previously shared information and understand school or support-related updates.

    • Key Practice 6.2.5: Transparency

      • Communication supports the transparent operation of the school and provides families with easy access to educational, health, and well-being information about their child, including overviews of available services.