Whitney High School

Universal - utilized by 80% of the school population

WHS Offerings

• Intervention
• Senior mentor
• Curriculum essential skills
• Standards-Evidence based instruction
• Research based instruction
• Cocoa and cram
• Schoology
• Intervention period
• A few extra minutes
• Goal setting
• Teacher office hours
• Parent and guardian resource night

Student Strategies

• Grade reporting checklist
• Study skills
• Learning styles-Learning inventories
• Study strategies
• Goal setting
• UDL strategies

Teacher Strategies

• Tutoring and extended office hours
• Communication with parents
• Mandatory reporting
• Student/parent meetings
• Parent/teacher meetings
• Schoology
• Intervention appointments

WHS Offerings

• Senior offering-positive referrals
• Rewards for perfect attendance
• Referral/detentions/saturday school
• Breaking down the walls
• Whitney unified movement and curriculum-school resource
• School Resources Officer
• Parent conference
• Every 15 minutes

Student Strategies

• Coping strategies
• Communicate with teachers
• Goal setting
• Seek trusted adult

Teacher Strategies

• Engaging activites
• Student centered activities
• Behavioral management system
• Seating changes
• Teacher/parent/student conference
• Mandated reporting

WHS Offerings

• Senior mentor
• NAMI club
• September suicide prevention week
• March mental health awareness week
• "R word" week
• Health class
• Whitney united lessons developed to connect students to campus
• Whitney united movements
• Curriculum-kindness lessons
• Mental awareness week
• Teacher/parent meetings
• Mandatory reporting
• Teacher training and strategies (KOGNITO)
• Breaking down the walls program
• Every 15 minutes
• Submitted, presented and approved suicide prevention board policy
• Staff presentation on student mental health and signs
• Immediate attention and suicide risk assessment provided as need arises on daily basis
• Mental health incorporated into freshman success classes

Student Strategies

• Anxiety checklist for classrooms
• Reflective listening

Teacher Strategies

• Student-centered activities-classroom
• Behavior expectations-documented
• Intervention meetings
• Counselor-Special Ed representative-teacher feedback
• Feedback