Launch
July: Before students return to school
Build and Manage Systems:
- Write/revise and train staff on minute-by-minute routines
- Track key school culture metrics
- With SL, set up regular meetings/structures: classroom walkthroughs, minute by minute walkthroughs, attendance response, school culture data, and student of concern meetings (in coordination with mental health professional, special education lead, and multilingual learner (MLL) lead)
- With operations staff, launch discipline and behavior response systems that are in legal compliance
Drive Professional Development:
- Lead professional development (PD) on school culture vision, values, systems, policies, and processes
Build Community:
- Lead kindergarten, 5th-/6th-/9th-grade, new student, and family orientations with operations and grade-level leads
Strong Start
August-September: When students return to school
In addition to the previous season’s skills …
Build Community:
- Lead community meetings
- Build proactive relationships with students and families
Reach All Learners:
- With mental health professional, special education lead, and multilingual learner (MLL) lead, identify and establish support plans for students of concern
Build and Manage Systems:
- Monitor and respond to Critical Routines via Minute by Minutes
- Complete classroom walkthroughs on Strong Start Culture Criteria and respond to trends
- Monitor and respond to attendance data via weekly or biweekly meeting
- Monitor and respond to culture data at least monthly
- Coordinate with grade-level leads to structure recurring grade-level meetings
Drive Professional Development:
- Lead practice clinics on key Strong Start skills (with Instructional Leads)
Rigor I
October–December: Ratio, Lift, & Monitoring
In addition to the previous season’s skills …
Build Community:
- Celebrate student growth and achievement
- Survey students, families, and staff to gather input around school culture
Reach All Learners:
- Analyze culture data to determine trends, outliers, and response plans, with specific attention to students with Individualized Education Programs/504s and multilingual learners
Build and Manage Systems:
- Analyze schoolwide culture data points and make recommendations for what to prioritize in January Jumpstart
- Adjust/revise school culture systems to prepare for January Jumpstart
Rigor II
January–March: Monitoring and Response to Data
In addition to the previous season’s skills …
Build and Manage Systems:
- Lead whole school resets
- Monitor and respond to Critical Routines via Minute by Minutes
Reach All Learners:
- Facilitate meetings with off-track students and their families (attendance and behavior)
Strong Finish
March–Early May
In addition to the previous season’s skills …
Build Community:
- Plan and facilitate end-of-year celebrations
- Facilitate end-of-year conversations with students and families (attendance and behavior)
- Solicit family, student, and staff input on school culture
Plan
May-June
In addition to the previous season’s skills …
Build Community:
- Survey students, families, and staff for input on the next school year’s policies and practices
Build and Manage Systems:
- Analyze a variety of schoolwide culture data points and recommend what to prioritize next year
- Adjust/revise school culture systems to prepare for next school year