Highland Free School

Highland will purchase Al's Pals SEL curriculum- to help support the social, emotional, and mental health needs of the students. [As found on "Evidence-based database" document on ADE's ESSER III page as well as Casel.org]. These lessons and resources will address social, emotional, and mental health needs of all students, and particularly those students disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including students from low-income families, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, children in foster care, and migratory students. The weekly lessons will facilitate large-group interactive discussions and problem-solving experiences to help struggling students (including those disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic) navigate difficult/ stressful situations.
Highland will hire an aide to provide support and address learning loss provide additional support for those struggling. Aide will use Lexia Core 5 resources (including individual Lexia Skillbuilders and recommended lessons), STAR CBMS, Freckle tier alerts on standards-based assignments, and ZEARN sprint and alerts to provide additional support for struggling students during independent learning times. Struggling students will be determined in 2 ways: 1) Lexia Core 5, Zearn, and Freckle Math issue alerts based on current student progress. These alerts are not static and depend on current struggles in specific standards-based curriculum in the adaptive online programs. As a result- assistance will be provided on an as-needed basis 2) STAR assessment data (both CBM and benchmark) will be used to determine students who are in Tier 2 and Tier 3. This data will be used to provide more consistently scheduled interventions and support (using rank-listing based on Star Assessment data) including additional practice in reading fluency and comprehension. This targeted one-on-one or small group support will help address learning loss and provide support as needed to students across the curriculum. Subgroups: Highland is a very small school with subgroup populations even smaller (generally smaller than the statistical threshold of 10 that the state often uses) which makes it difficult to target support based on those populations. As a result, vulnerable student populations (including racial and ethnic groups , economically disadvantaged students, children with disabilities, English learners, gender, and migrant status; students experiencing homelessness; and children and youth in foster care.) will be a considering factor in when determining rank listings for scheduling this additional support.
IN ADDITION: the aide will also help support learning loss in social studies, science, and writing.