StepUP

Building – Support students through a trauma-informed lens in their growth of social, emotional, behavioral and academic skills, enabling students to overcome individual barriers and gain independence, fully accessing their home camus.

District – Build capacity to support students with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) lagging skills in the least restrictive environment through purposeful continuum of services.

Community – Build trusting and collaborative relationships with families, community members and staff who work with our target population. Provide timely and relevant communication to all stakeholders.

You might ask, what is StepUP and what happened to “Brown”? While we are still located at Edwin Brown Education Center, we have renamed all of our programs under the umbrella of StepUP. You will even see an awesome new sign above our door! In the spring of 2018, our systems of support for social-emotional interventions were completely redesigned and with big changes a new name was chosen to help shift perspectives and thoughts around our building and what ‘used to be’.

At StepUP, we serve students from Kindergarten through High School.

• We have four Social-Emotional Learning Programs for kindergarten through 12th grade. These programs are broken into grade levels, kindergarten through 2nd grade, 3rd through 5th grade, 6th through 8th grade, and 9th through 12th grade.While these programs are designed to provide intense interventions for struggling students, our team provides support on students’ home campuses, coaches students through transition back to home campuses, and engage in brainstorming with campuses for preventative supports.

StepUP Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs are for students accessing Redmond School District. Our SEL Programs offer intensive support through small group and individualized instruction, focusing on social skills, emotional regulation, coping strategies, and academic support. Our goal is to ensure students don’t fall behind and to help them develop the skills necessary to successfully access their home campus. Most students in StepUP follow a hybrid schedule, attending both StepUP and their home campus.
StepUP SEL programs are available through referral for students who attend their home campus, receive multiple school-level interventions, and continue to require additional support in social skills or emotional regulation.

The Redmond School District offers various tiers of support at each campus, and a team at the building level would meet to determine which interventions might be most beneficial for your child. If previous interventions have not been effective, the school team can submit a referral to a district team for additional consultation and problem solving support, including both BRYT (on-campus) and StepUP (off-campus) programs. Access to these higher levels of support is based on this referral process and is contingent upon the needs of the student and the capacity of the programs.

Both BRYT and StepUP are short-term interventions, with the goal of helping students return to their regular classes and home campus as soon as they are ready.