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Personal Excellence - Extracurricular/Co-Curricular

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Personal Excellence

Extracurricular/Co-Curricular

RATIONALE:

Bismarck Public Schools believes all students deserve extracurricular/co-curricular experiences that facilitate exploration of interests and passion in order to enhance school experience and build life skills.

DEFINITION:

Extra/co-curricular activities provide additional opportunities to support and reinforce learner skills and understandings through passion driven participation in teams, clubs, and specialized courses both in and outside of school.

GOAL:

All learners have diverse opportunities to participate in or lead activities that enhance their experience.

OBJECTIVES:

  • Provide diverse and relevant opportunities for all students to experience success in activities.
  • Improve communications and outreach to inform parents and students about activities.
  • Provide leadership training to coaches, advisors, and students involved in activities.

Personal Excellence - Inclusive Practices

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Personal Excellence

Inclusive Practices

RATIONALE:

Bismarck Public Schools believes each learner thrives within an equitable and inclusive learning environment that values the contribution of personal, cultural, and historical aspects of identity to enrich our schools and community.

DEFINITION:

Inclusive practices ensure that each learner is valued as an equal member of the school community. They support positive school climates and foster an understanding of each student’s strengths and weaknesses while providing intentional and meaningful opportunities to engage in all aspects of learning.

GOAL:

Each learner is valued for their distinct characteristics, ideas, and perspectives.

OBJECTIVES:

  • Ensure that schools cultivate and integrate diversity in all learning environments by recognizing each learner’s distinct needs, ideas, and perspectives.
  • Examine and revise our curriculum and teaching practices as necessary to ensure that we are effective in reaching each learner.
  • Improve access to equitable school opportunities across buildings and for each student.

Personal Excellence - Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavior (MTSS-B) / Interconnected Systems Framework

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Personal Excellence

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavior (MTSS-B) / Interconnected Systems Framework

RATIONALE:

Bismarck Public Schools believes supporting social and emotional needs through a tiered systems framework is foundational to learning.

DEFINITION:

An Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) serves to integrate School Mental Health and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports through the blending of resources, training, systems, data, and practices (Multi-Tiered System of Supports). There is an emphasis on prevention, early identification, and intervention of the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of students. Family and community partnerships are critical to this framework.

GOAL:

All learners are supported through a continuum of evidence-based practices that promote behavioral and mental health.

OBJECTIVES:

  • Establish and monitor a continuum of evidence-based interventions at all MTSS levels that results in early identification and intervention implementation using data-based decision making.
  • Increase efficiency and effectiveness of Student Support Services (School Counselors, School Psychologists, and School Social Workers).
  • Provide professional development to meet the social and emotional needs of all staff and students.
  • Engage community collaborators in supporting schools in the promotion of behavioral and mental health for all learners.