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State Support Team – Region 3 in collaboration with the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio recognizes students with disabilities, peers, and educators with the annual Excellence in Education Awards.  Because of COVID-19, the annual recognition brunch has not been held in person in the past three years, but a video has been created to celebrate and honor these incredible individuals, along with the great things that are happening in special education in Northeast Ohio.   Recipients this year also received a yard sign and certificate.  CLICK HERE to watch the video tribute.  

The health and safety of students and staff at Parma City Schools will always be one of the top priorities in the district, and this past fall, the district held a Mental Health Summit for student leaders representing all three high schools.  The approximately 75 students who participated in this special event had been selected by their peers to become mental health ambassadors through the Hope Squad program.

It is becoming widely understood that it is best practice for school districts to establish one system of social/emotional and behavior supports. This framework is called the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) and it blends Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) with mental health supports. One core feature of an ISF is the expansion of PBIS leadership teams to include school and community mental health clinicians. This ensures that the interventions provided to students and families can be managed and monitored for effectiveness and it avoids staff burn-out caused by an overload of meetings and overlapping efforts.