Student Supports

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• Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap

  The Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap is chaired by the Lieutenant Governor and covenes state agency heads in order to coordinate cross-agency efforts to eliminate the academic gaps in Connecticut.

• Office of Student Supports and Organizational Effectiveness

  Home page of the State Department of Education's Office of Student Supports and Organizational Effectiveness

• Peer Learning Opportunities

• Practice Guidelines for Delivery of School Social Work Services

  Guidelines for professionals developing and implementing school social work services for Connecticut students

• Promising Practices to Reduce Chronic Absence

• Reducing Chronic Absence in Connecticut's Schools

  School district administrators can use this framework to plan and implement preventions and interventions that will help reduce chronic absence in prekindergarten through Grade 12.

• Reducing Chronic Absence in Connecticut's Schools

  School district administrators can use this framework to plan and implement preventions and interventions that will help reduce chronic absence in prekindergarten through Grade 12.

• Resources for Addressing Trauma, Violence, and Grief

• Results-Based Accountability

• Safe and Supportive Environments (Health Education)

  Guidance and resources for creating safe and supportive learning environments in schools.

• School Governance Councils

  School Governance Councils provide an opportunity for Connecticut schools to engage with families and community members in the essential dialogue about student achievement and preparing all students for success.

• School Social Work

  Guidance and resources for Connecticut’s school social workers.

• School Social Work

  Guidance and resources for Connecticut’s school social workers.

• School-Family-Community Partnerships

  When schools, families and the community work together, children benefit. School staff, families and community members each make important contributions to student development and success, and the best results come when all three work together as equal partners.

• Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled

  Connecticut law requires LEAs to offer an “alternative educational opportunity” to students who have been expelled in certain circumstances and further provides that LEAs may offer such an opportunity to any expelled student.