Learning supports are the resources, strategies, and practices that provide
physical, social, emotional, and intellectual supports to directly address
barriers to learning and teaching and, when necessary, re-engage
disconnected students.
To accomplish the essential public education
goal of enabling all students to have an equal opportunity for success at
school, research indicates the need for developing learning supports into a
unfied and comprehensive system. Such a system of learning supports provides
supportive interventions in classrooms and schoolwide and is fully
integrated with efforts to improve instruction and management at a school.
In ____, we began the process of unifying our many student and learning
supports into a comprehensive system to better address barriers to learning
and teaching and ensure student engagement.
[LINK TO ENACTED POLICY -- Maybe also use a quote about the importance of learning supports; LINK TO BROCHURE ABOUT THE SYSTEM; LINK TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENT DESCRIBING THE SYSTEM]
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