Communities In Schools, the Center for Optimized Student Support at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development, and City Connects developed an Integrated Student Supports State Policy Toolkit to assist state policymakers and education leaders in the development of statewide protocols that advance high-quality systems of integrated student supports and strengthen service delivery within their state.
This toolkit brings practical examples from existing legislation,frameworks, and protocols together with a rigorous understanding from the sciences of effective practice. It provides model language and recommendations that can be used to establish a student-centered approach as a strategy to address the most pressing challenges in a state and ensure that support for implementation is targeted to the right schools. It is meant to help closely link policy making with effective strategies and provides model language to ensure that legislation is informed by strategies linked to improved student outcomes
