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PILLAR 4 DEEP DIVE - MORE RESOURCES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
STRATEGIES
Included below is a subset of strategies that MSDE will use to accomplish the outcomes for Pillar 4. MSDE will
continue to re昀椀ne these, and other, strategies throughout the year to ensure active responsiveness to the current
needs of students, schools, and districts across the State.
Expand Community Schools and provide professional
Develop guidance for school teams to establish
learning for Community School coordinators and staff
sustainable models for integrated systems of support.
to provide effective wraparound services that meet the
needs of students and the community.
Provide embedded coaching for elementary and
middle school general educators and special educators
Enhance Tier 1 school-based mental health promotion
to model effective inclusion strategies for students with
services and supports to foster positive, social-
disabilities and signi昀椀cant behaviors.
emotional and behavioral skills for all students. Tier 1
activities are implemented school-wide, at the grade
Scale the Maryland School Mental Health Response
level, and/or at the classroom level, and services are
Program and strategic partnerships to support local
delivered by both school and community-based
education agencies in addressing student and family
professionals working within schools (e.g., school-wide
mental health needs by enriching the work of site-
mental health literacy; school climate improvement
based student support services personnel through
efforts; restorative practices; classroom-based social
enhanced training and consultancies on mental health
emotional learning for students).
promotion and services (e.g., risk assessment; crisis
stabilization; safe and supportive schools; linkages and
Expand in-class instructional scaffolds (e.g.,
triage; brief interventions).
co-teaching, visuals, language objectives) in content
areas to reduce achievement gaps for multilingual
Support the use of restorative practices to improve
learners.
overall school climate and decrease chronic absenteeism.
Utilize results from the Maryland School Survey to
Implement culturally and linguistically appropriate
spotlight connections between student and educator
gifted identi昀椀cation methods (e.g., native language
perceptions of their schools and school achievement
assessments, teacher training on multilingual learner
and other outcomes, while driving school level
giftedness) to increase multilingual learner
practices for improvement of student outcomes.
representation in advanced programs.
Provide professional development and support to
Provide opportunities through the use of embedded
LEAs to address root causes of chronic absenteeism
artists, musicians, and academic content specialists
(e.g. mental health supports, increased access to before
in Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) and
and after school programs, and resources to families).
Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI)
schools to identify students with disabilities and
Increase the number of out-of-school time programs
multilingual learners with exceptional areas of talent.
that offer socio-emotional programs.
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