Enabling Conditions
Number of Enabling Conditions
What is 4?
Number of Key Practices
What is 6?
This is the feeling students and staff experience when they feel accepted, valued, and connected to their school community.
What is belonging?
This type of team regularly meets to discuss student needs and coordinate appropriate supports and interventions.
What is a student support team (or multidisciplinary team)?
This type of instruction challenges students academically while providing support so all learners can succeed.
What is rigorous instruction?
Strong, respectful connections among students, families, educators, and community partners built through consistent communication, reliability, and mutual respect.
What are Trusting Relationships?
These key practices were the 4 Pillars in prior models
What are Collaborative Leadership, Integrated Systems of Supports, Extended Learning Time, and Family/Community Engagement?
This daily practice—such as greeting students by name at the door—helps build relationships and a sense of belonging.
What is relationship-building?
This tiered framework organizes supports into levels so all students receive the help they need.
What is a tiered system of support (such as MTSS)?
This instructional approach connects classroom learning to real-world issues, communities, and student experiences.
What is community-connected learning?
Meaningful information that schools and partners regularly review and use to understand student and community needs, identify challenges, and inform decisions.
What is Actionable Data?
Before- and after-school, weekend, and summer programs provide expanded time, enhanced staffing, and enriched opportunities for learning and engagement through academic instruction, enrichment and extracurricular activities, and individualized support.
What is Expanded and Enriched Learning Opportunities?
This type of school environment ensures that students feel emotionally and physically secure so they can focus on learning.
What is a safe and supportive environment?
These partnerships help schools connect students and families to services like mental health counseling, food assistance, or after-school programs.
What are community-based partnerships?
Teachers may partner with these groups to bring real-world expertise and experiences into the classroom.
Who are community partners?
A common understanding among students, families, educators, and community partners about the goals and priorities for the school community.
What is Shared Vision?
Families, students, teachers, principals, and community partners co-create a culture of professional learning, collective trust, and shared ownership as they make decisions together through formal structures and through more informal engagement.
What is Collaborative leadership, Shared Power and Voice?
This approach focuses on repairing harm, building accountability, and restoring relationships rather than relying only on punishment.
What is restorative practice?
Integrated systems of support approach coordinates at least 2 these supports so students can succeed in school and life.
What are academic, social, emotional, and health?
This practice ensures instruction reflects and values students’ cultures, identities, and lived experiences.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
The practice of engaging diverse voices—including students, families, school staff, and community partners—in meaningful ways when making decisions that affect the school community.
What is Inclusive Decision-Making?
Families and students actively participate in the school community and are key partners in setting goals and shaping the school’s environment, priorities, and community partnerships. Schools become hubs providing opportunities for adults and young people.
What is Powerful Student and Family Engagement?
This group should have opportunities to share their voices and experiences to help shape a caring school culture.
Who are students?
The ultimate goal of integrated systems of support is to remove these so every student has the opportunity to succeed.
What are barriers to learning?
The goal of rigorous, community-connected instruction is to prepare students for success in these three areas.
What are college, career, and community?