Student Supports
Goal Statement: Mason Public Schools will proactively focus on robust and bold practices that connect students to their learning in order to prioritize and provide a barrier-free, successful education.
Objective 1: Mason Public Schools will build an intentional culture that generates systems and strategies to increase authentic engagement by promoting positive perspectives toward self and others that will establish healthy relationships.
Implementation:
- Improve access for students and staff to behavioral and social emotional supports at all three tiers.
- Refine systematic Social Emotional Learning programming throughout the district.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive school counseling program prekindergarten-12th grade, addressing the mental health, social emotional, and personal needs of students.
Objective 2: Mason Public Schools will build structural support systems and strategies that proactively identify and address individual and collective student needs equitably.
Implementation:
- Review and formalize the district’s Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
- Formalize procedures for supporting students, including information for families on how to connect with resources inside and outside of the district, to address various inequities.
Objective 3: Mason Public Schools will build leadership opportunities, cultural awareness, and community partnerships that will provide students and staff with a platform of engagement in 21st century learning.
Implementation:
- Update, develop, and implement media literacy programs throughout the district, prekindergarten-12th grade.
- Understand and support community diversity and culture, including continued equity and inclusion efforts.
- Develop and implement service-based learning environments to increase student engagement and provide students, prekindergarten-12th grade, the opportunity to give back to the community.
