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50 MARYLAND TRANSFORMS - STRATEGIC PLAN
DEEP DIVE INTO THE ENABLER
SUPPORTING STUDENTS SUCCESS
SOCIALLY & EMOTIONALLY
ENABLER 4: SUPPORTING STUDENT SUCCESS SOCIALLY & EMOTIONALLY
Expand community schools and provide professional learning for community school coordinators and staff
rooted in the Collective Impact framework to provide effective wraparound services that meet the needs of
students and the community.
Enhance Tier 1 school-based mental health promotion services and supports to foster positive, socialemotional and behavioral skills for all students. Tier 1 activities are implemented school-wide, at the grade
level, and/or at the classroom level, and services are delivered by both school- and community-based
professionals working within schools (e.g. school-wide mental health literacy; school climate improvement
efforts; restorative practices; classroom-based social emotional learning for students; etc.).
Scale the Maryland School Mental Health Response Program and strategic partnerships to support local
education agencies in addressing student and family mental health needs by enriching the work of site-based
student support services personnel through enhanced training and consultancies on mental health promotion
and services (e.g. risk assessment; crisis stabilization; safe and supportive schools; linkages and triage; brief
interventions; etc.).
Utilize results from the Maryland School Survey to spotlight connections between student and educator
perceptions of their schools and school achievement and other outcomes, while driving school level practices
for improvement of student outcomes.
ENABLER
GOALS & METRICS
Maryland is ensuring student success by: supporting our
students’ social-emotional learning, health and wellness,
and safety; enhancing school culture and climate; scaling
high-quality wraparound supports and partnerships; and
strengthening family and community engagement.
Increase in percentage of schools perceived as having a favorable
learning environment* and decrease in suspension rate.
*Specific survey topics will be selected when a third year of survey
data is available in late 2023
SNAPSHOT OF ENGAGEMENT
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS
MENTIONED THE IMPACT OF THE
PANDEMIC ON THEIR CHILDREN’S
ABILITY TO LEARN, THEIR
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING, AND
THEIR SENSE OF CONNECTION
Participants reflected on how the pandemic had laid bare long-standing unmet
needs and profound deficits in services for students and their families, from food
insecurity to uneven access to reliable internet to a chronic shortage of mental
health services. The pandemic heightened these needs and created more urgency
for finding solutions. Participants called for greater availability of counselors in
school buildings and for better education for both parents/guardians and students
regarding mental health and emotional wellbeing.
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Maier, A., Daniel, J., Oakes, J., & Lam, L. (2017). Community Schools as an Effective School Improvement Strategy:
A Review of the Evidence. Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center.