Student Support at ARISE
ARISE High School serves a diverse student population with a range of academic and socio-emotional needs. This includes students who are performing below grade level, students who are performing above grade level, students who qualify for special education services, and students who are learning English as a secondary language. Serving all these students well is a core design element of the ARISE High School program.
In order for ALL students to be able to meet the high expectations that ARISE High School holds, a thorough system of support is critical. While our entire school is designed in such a way as to make the educational experience highly personalized, attentive, and responsive, Student Support Services is both structure and philosophy at ARISE to provide intensive support towards helping students move forward. While there are systems and programs that exist within Student Support, the work itself cannot be reduced to a process or policy.
As such, Student Support Services works within the whole school community to create the conditions, procedures, and resources to support struggling students academically & socio-emotionally using these approaches: Restorative Justice Praxis, Universal Education Model, and Response to Intervention (RTI). The links to the right provides details on these three approaches. While our model is squarely focused on integrated services throughout the school program and day, services to different subgroups are also detailed in accordance with the education code.
How Our Team Is Organized
Our Student Support team includes an academic counselor, a college and career counselor, a special education team, mental health clinicians, deans of restorative justice and school culture, and a team of ARISE alumni who serve as Academic Mentors and classroom TAs.
The Student Support Leadership Team defines the roles, responsibilities, and deliverables of everyone on the team. It sets the direction of our work, coordinates with the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) and Team Freire, and looks at schoolwide data on student engagement to make sure every student succeeds.
Meet the Student Support Team
Arianna Caplan-Bass
Head of School - Student Support
Jamen Suter-Donaldson
Dean of School Culture & Athletic Director
Robyn Collignon
Director of Special Education
Community, College & Career (CCC) Team
Brian Simpson
Academic Counselor
Kayla Jackson
Dean of Community, College, and Career
Viridiana Morales Serrano
Community Learning Coordinator
Maria Martinez
College & Career Counselor
Jessica Rangel
Senior Community Learning Coordinator
Kathia Osuna
Senior Community Engagement Coordinator
Special Education
Robyn Collignon
Director of Special Education
Daniela Matejkova
Special Education Teacher
Alicia Pacheco
Special Education Teacher
Jennifer Alatorre
Special Education Teacher
Anabelen Roiz
Special Education Teacher
Nataly Moreno
Special Education Teacher
Mental Health
Arianna Caplan-Bass
Head of School - Student Support
Artemisa Bobst
Mental Health Clinician
Danny Wilcox
Lead Clinician
Hannah Armstrong
Clinical Intern
Rosalia Sanson
Mental Health Clinician
Drew Watkins
Clinical Intern
Team hooks (School Culture & Student Support)
Jamen Suter-Donaldson
Dean of School Culture & Athletic Director
Aldo Justo
Academic Mentor Lead
Kathia Osuna
Senior Community Engagement Coordinator
Arianna Caplan-Bass
Head of School - Student Support