Building Support for Student Success
AASA collaborates with
Communities In Schools (CIS) to design a targeted leadership strategies to enhance
Social-Emotional and Academic Development (SEAD); thus, creating healthier
school environments and improved outcomes for our target audience, at-risk
students, particularly those living in poverty and students of color. The CIS
model of integrated student supports is based on school-based coordination of
broad community resources to meet the mental, physical and emotional needs of
the whole child.

AASA understands that we must increase the understanding of school district and state superintendents of the power of student supports and and comprehensive approaches to young people to ameliorate the effects of poverty and social, health and economic inequalities that have negative consequences for school performance and lifelong implications for overall health, economic achievement, and incarceration.

Staff Contacts
Kayla Jackson, Project Director
703-875-0725
kjackson@aasa.org
Bryan Joffe, Project Director
401-633-4074
bjoffe@aasa.org
Updated July 2020