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Brighton updates blueprint: expanded mental-health access, MTSS work, curriculum reviews and safety benchmarks
Summary
At the Nov. 5 board meeting, district leaders reported expanded mental-health partnerships with URMC, new parent-university sessions (including vaping education), ongoing MTSS and inclusion work in special education, curriculum and equitable grading initiatives, and plans to develop safety benchmarks and continuity-of-operations plans.
District leaders used the Nov. 5 board meeting to update the board on the Brighton Blueprint action plan, describing multiple initiatives across mental health, special education, curriculum, family engagement, and operations.
Diana (district leader) summarized mental-health and student-support work, including an on-site partnership with URMC that the district expects to expand (discussing a potential third day of services at the middle school). She said the wait list for services is sizable, which the district interprets as continued demand and a positive indicator for sustaining the site-based clinic. Diana also announced the district’s first Parent University session, scheduled for Nov. 6, with a session on talking to children about vaping led by a medical director from the University of Rochester who is also a district clinician.
On special education, district psychologists and special-education leaders described efforts to standardize MTSS-related referral forms and K–12 processes for the Committee on Special Education (CSE), and to develop inclusive programming that supports independence for students served in self-contained settings. Allison reported curriculum work including a new curriculum management system (PowerSchool), a planned math textbook review for grades 7–8, and ongoing efforts on equitable grading practices at the middle and high schools.
Jeff Green detailed family and student experience initiatives: outreach calls to every new family, mentoring programs that pair high-school athletes with middle-school students, clothing-access pop-ups (Brighten Your Wardrobe), free sports clinics, and a district student-support fund that the Brighton Believers Council recently donated to. Lou described operations work focused on safety training, threat assessments, CPR/AED and suicide-assessment training, and development of benchmarks to measure safety-program effectiveness.
District leaders and the board said these reports will be tracked through quarterly check-ins and that full presentation materials are available on the district website.
