Monday Morning Wins: Staff Newsletters Support and Connect the School Community

A group of educators smile while looking at documents together inside a classroom with a paper tree on the back wall.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

– Bill Gates


WHAT IT IS

The Monday Morning Wins newsletter includes pictures as well as instructional strategies of the work being done in classrooms. This newsletter is helpful for staff new to the concept of MTSS by providing them with examples of student engagement and the many teaching methods that are already happening every day on campus. 

Themes highlighted in the newsletter include the following:

  • A focus on what is positive that is happening in the school
  • Specific examples of FBI in the classroom
  • Examples of what’s happening to support students in co- and extracurricular programs
  • Being explicit about attaching everything to school values/identity

HOW IT’S WORKING FOR OVHS

Monday Morning Wins has given the staff a better understanding of what MTSS looks like on a daily basis and a better understanding of how to support all students.

Building on this momentum, Ocean View High School leadership was able to continue to support the school’s MTSS work in the following ways:

  • All of the staff professional development was organized around MTSS
  • Leadership continued to find ways for students to be better known by staff, including implementing grade-level, cross-curricular collaboration meetings
  • Leadership identified and operationalized student outcomes throughout the school day so that both students and the staff now have a clear understanding of the skills students need to be prepared when they graduate from OVHS

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