SST+Processes

**Student Support Team Goal** SST is a **process** of supporting students through the use of teacher collaboration with SST case managers and/or other school specialists that implement interventions to __help students succeed in the regular education classroom__. **SST Purpose** Every Wake County school has a Student Support Team whose goal is to strengthen and support the individual student, in the regular education classroom, by developing and implementing a holistic, collaborative plan utilizing strategies that may be school-based, community-based and/or scientific research-based depending on the availability of resources most likely to enhance the student's success. The Student Support Team intervenes as early as possible when there is concern about a student's success and through development of the student action plan and progress monitoring, attempts to prevent decline in a student's progress and support future success. **SST Team Members**
 * Grade level Professional Learning Team
 * Student’s teacher(s)
 * School Specialists (Literacy coach, Interventionist, ESL teacher or other)
 * Administrator
 * School Psychologist
 * School Counselor
 * School Social Worker (as needed)
 * School Nurse (as needed)
 * Parent/Guardian(s)