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7.17 - Academic Support Team

7.17 - Academic Support Team

SERIES 7 - EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Liberty Common School’s excellent teaching methods, rich curriculum, and strong character education reaches the majority of students and helps bring about amazing learning, high achievement, and strong character. While students are expected to do all they can to reach the high bar, their parents are also asked to help at home. For most students, this is enough to achieve their academic success. When a student needs more than this to achieve at grade level, the school is required to intervene.

Academic Support Team’s primary mission is to support students who are at risk academically by identifying and addressing barriers to their success. It improves student success toward mature literacy and independence by providing specialized instruction. AST addresses concerns through many avenues: Response to Intervention, English Language Acquisition, 504s, Advanced Learning, and special education. Support is given judiciously and only as needed. Liberty Common School intervenes with solutions while still ensuring that its students are educated with the Core Knowledge curriculum. When difficulties arise, the following steps occur. Students move to the next step if improvements are not seen.

  1. General education teachers work with the student and his or her parent/s to alleviate the problem.
     
  2. The Student Teacher Assistance Team (STAT) – a group composed of general educators, administrator/s, and AST representative/s – through referral, offers advice to teachers and/or parents and determines the next step.
     
  3. The student may be referred to AST for further intervention and support through the RTI process (RTI=Response to Intervention.) A student may also need screenings, observations, other testing, or an accommodation plan. STAT monitors progress and may revisit to change the plan as needed.
     
  4. If steps 1-3 do not remediate the problem, STAT may refer a student for a special education evaluation. Written permission is required before such an evaluation can take place.

    Parents are apprised of this process along the way and are encouraged to support their children in any manner they can to bring academic success. Questions about your child or this process should be directed to his or her classroom teacher or the Academic Support Coordinator.

    Adopted: 12-20-2012