Pillar 4
Outcomes for Pillar 4:
- Accurately identify students who need more resources to be successful
- Improve the education of English Learners (ELs)
- Improve the education of students with disabilities
- Provide supports for students attending schools with a high concentration of students living in poverty
- Enhance student health services
In an effort to close the achievement gap and expand student opportunities, Pillar 4 strives to increase funding for students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and students from low income families; offering more support to students who need it the most and properly identifying students for services. This includes new academic programs, social services, and mental and behavioral health services at school and home.
A few highlights from the Prince George’s County Public Schools 2024 Blueprint Plan are listed below. For more information, read the entire More Resources to Ensure all Students are Successful section (pages 69-86).
Students with Disabilities
- Increase apprenticeships and work-based learning opportunities, for students with disabilities.
- The PGCPS Special Education team offers professional learning opportunities and resources on a range of topics for educators, including cultural competence, implicit bias, specially designed instruction, twice exceptional programming (students receiving gifted education services who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) or 504 plans are considered twice exceptional), high-leverage practices, positive behavior interventions, and trauma-informed interventions, aiming to build capacity to support students with disabilities.
Multilingual Learners
- The PGCPS Department of Family and Community Partnerships provides monthly Family Institute workshops for parents/guardians/families to engage in shared responsibility and effective collaboration with the school system aimed towards outstanding academic achievement for students.
- PGCPS multilingual staff serve as direct points of contact for students and families, as they are integral to relationship-building within the school community.
- English language development strategies for multilingual learners are embedded directly into K-5 and middle school mathematics, and K-5 reading instruction.
Community Schools (129) across elementary, middle, and high)
- Align partnerships with multiple organizations to support individual schools to achieve common educational goals for students from low-income families.
- Wraparound services to address the district’s top three needs: food insecurity, physical/mental/emotional health, and access to English classes for parents/guardians - efforts to support academic outcomes.
Expanded and Enhanced Mental Health Services
- Partnership with Hazel Health- teletherapy services in school and at home
- Mental health clinicians in every school in PGCPS
