District staff outline stepped supports, suicide‑awareness screening and new tracking platform

At a board meeting, district staff described steps to expand multi-tiered behavioral supports and to track interventions for students, saying the district purchased a case‑management platform and is considering a signs‑of‑suicide screening for secondary students. Chris Juarez, identified in the meeting as a district staff member who attended the MTSS conference, described new tools and trainings staff will use to monitor and coordinate student interventions.

The district is rolling out a platform staff called “Beyond SST” that Juarez said will record every intervention a student receives as they progress through Student Study Team (SST) supports and, if needed, to more intensive services. "We've purchased a program called, Beyond SST," Juarez said. He described using the platform alongside…