Comprehensive Student Support Teams (CSST)
The Comprehensive Support Team is a key structure for care, guidance, and accompaniment at U.E.P. San Gabriel. It works in a coordinated manner to ensure that each student is supported academically, humanly, emotionally, and spiritually, in ongoing unity with families.
What Are Comprehensive Support Teams?
They are multidisciplinary teams established at each educational level and sublevel. Their purpose is to guarantee the comprehensive care and well-being of students, promoting a formation that integrates pedagogical, coexistence, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual dimensions, in coherence with the Ignatian pedagogical model.
These teams act as a bridge of support and communication between the educational institution, students, and families, ensuring timely responses and close follow-up to each student’s needs.
Objectives of the CST
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Guarantee students’ comprehensive well-being in all their dimensions.
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Support academic, emotional, social, and spiritual development.
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Strengthen communication and shared responsibility between family and school.
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Create a safe, positive, and formative school environment.
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Provide timely and specialized guidance according to students’ needs.
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Care for the whole person, in coherence with the Ignatian charism.
Functions of the CST
They are organized in a complementary manner according to the role of each member, ensuring comprehensive attention:
Pedagogical Coordination
- Support pedagogical and curricular processes.
- Monitor assessments, grades, and academic achievements.
- Provide guidance on learning experiences, educational field trips, and service activities.
- Accompany teachers’ classroom management.
- Ensure the proper implementation of the Ignatian pedagogical model.
Student Well-Being Coordination
- Safeguard harmonious coexistence and behavioral well-being.
- Manage justifications for absences, tardiness, and permissions.
- Address students’ daily situations.
- Support and resolve behavioral matters.
- Coordinate logistics and organization of level activities.
Student Counseling Department (DECE)
- Address inclusion processes and Specific Educational Needs.
- Develop actions for the promotion and prevention of psychosocial risks.
- Provide individual and group emotional counseling and support.
- Identify psychosocial risks and propose preventive strategies.
- Contribute to comprehensive development and a positive school climate.
Pastoral Ministry
- Promote spiritual growth and formation in Christian values.
- Provide spiritual accompaniment to members of the educational community.
- Organize social action and service experiences.
- Plan religious celebrations, events, and Ignatian formative spaces.
