WWYD:
What Would You DO
What Would You DO
A family shares they cannot afford school supplies for next year. What should you do first?
What is connect them to FCP/community resource supports and school-based assistance?
This team is contacted to report the administration of a school issued epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen) and request a replacement.
Who is Student Health Services?
B2SB represent this initiative.
What is Back to School Bash?
This team coordinates the meeting to
determine whether a student is eligible
for a medical exemption from compulsory attendance.
What is Attendance Services?
This is sent home when a student is noncompliant with immunizations.
What is an Immunization 5 Day Letter?
A student returns from suspension and appears disengaged and disconnected.
What is conduct a re-entry meeting with support planning?
A student makes a concerning statement that could
indicate a safety risk to others.
Who is the Threat Assessment Team?
An ECP represents this supportive document for students with medical impairment.
What is an Emergency Care Plan (ECP)?
A student’s behavior worsens after a recent traumatic event at home. These teams could be contacted for supportive interventions.
What are Social Workers and Trauma Informed Specialist?
Before long-term suspension, students are entitled to this process including notice and opportunity to respond.
What is due process?
At the cluster collaboration meetings, several schools in a cluster are receiving negative feedback for welcoming school culture. They would like to address this with front office and school staff. Who is the group that you contact?
What is FCP/ Family Engagement Team?
A community partner wants to host an after-school
enrichment program at your high school. What should happen before the program begins?
What is contact the Extended Learning/FCP team?
This acronym stands for the Davidson County Truancy Court.
What is the MSAC/Metro Student Attendance Center?
This is the appropriate team member for conducting home visits, which should be completed in pairs.
What is contact your school social worker?
A Section 504 eligible student is subject to disciplinary action that may result in a change of placement or suspension beyond 10 days, this type of meeting should be scheduled to determine whether the behavior was related to the student’s disability.
What is a Manifestation Determination Meeting?
A student was recently admitted to the hospital following a suicide attempt and is currently coded as ES. The student has not yet returned to school. You are seeking guidance on appropriate attendance coding during this period, anticipated discharge timing, and planning for a successful and supportive re-entry to school. These teams should be contacted.
What are the Special Populations, Attendance, and the Social Work Departments?
Contact this team when I am unclear about who qualifies for exam exemption, for which classes,
and how attendance should be coded.
What is Attendance Services?
This newly renamed department was formally known as SEL.
What is PGD/Personal Growth and Development?
A school experienced a student death and leadership needs to initiate the Disruptive Event Response Protocol. This person should be contacted to activate the crisis response?
What is Dr. Megan Cusson-Lark, Executive Director of Student Support Services and the DERT team?
This is the process that outlines
what my school should do when a student begins to accrue absences (both excused and unexcused).
What is the Progressive Attendance Intervention Strategy/Flowchart?
This procedural intervention is required
to process and approve a revocation
request for an out-of-zone student.
What is a successfully filed truancy petition?
Under Public Chapter 426, a student in DCS custody has been admitted to a Residential Treatment Facility (RTF). The school team is preparing to withdraw the student and update enrollment and attendance records accordingly. Contact this team to confirm.
What is Special Populations?
All external organizations, volunteers, and individuals seeking to engage with MNPS schools
must register through this system before supporting schools or students.
What is P.A.S.S./Partner Agreement Support System?
A student is struggling with adversity or trauma outside of school and demonstrating emotional and behavioral dysregulation in the classroom. This district team can support collaborative conversations.
What is the district Trauma-Informed Schools department?
At a district meeting, school leaders discuss ways to improve communication with families by offering translated materials, flexible meeting times, and opportunities for parents to participate in school decision-making. Administrators explain that these expectations are not just school suggestions but are part of the official district rules adopted by the school board to strengthen partnerships between schools and families.
What is MNPS Board Policy for Parental and Family Engagement (4.502)?