SLS proudly supports military families and understands the unique challenges they face. We offer services to assist you, whether you’re dealing with a recent relocation, deployment, or reintegration.

Academic Planning for Military Families

Registration

Current registration packet -https://www.keysschools.com/domain/506

Note: Please plan to provide all necessary enrollment information, including current transcripts, recent test scores, school physical forms, and immunization records.

Student Handbook

• Monroe County School District Handbook

Supply Lists

• Voluntary Pre-k (Vpk)
• VPK Daycare
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade
• Fifth Grade
• Sixth Grade
• Seventh Grade
• Eighth Grade
• Art Wishlist

Exceptional Student Education Services

The Exceptional Student Education Department provides the essential support and services for students with special needs. Our programs encompass a wide span of abilities, from severe/moderate/mild disabilities to gifted education. We have a team approach that provides for students and their families as well as school administrators and teachers. We work with educators, families, and community partners to meet the challenges that our special needs students face. We welcome your questions and are happy to assist you in any way we can. Click here for more information: Monroe County School District Services

Dr. Lesley Thompson, Director
Phone: 305-293-1400, ext. 53378
Email: lesley.thompson@keyysschools.com

Sugarloaf School: Sean Cambridge 
MCSD ESE Diagnostic Interventionist/Staffing Specialist
(305) 745 – 3282, ext. 50351
Sean.Cambridge@keysschools.com

MFLC program

The Military and Family Life Counseling Program helps military families and children navigate challenges with free face-to-face support. Child and youth behavioral military and family life counselors, or CYB-MFLCs, provide confidential non-medical counseling services to children and youth up to age 18 in groups and individually. They also offer support to families, staff, and support personnel. Working with a counselor can help improve behavior performance in school and relationships.

MFLCs are master’s or doctorate-level licensed counselors who may:

• Provide consultation support to parents and caregivers, childcare providers, teachers, and administrators on the healthy development of children and youthModel evidence-based intervention approaches
• Assist educators with strategies for cultivating a deeper understanding of the factors that shape social-emotional development
• Conduct classroom observations

Services are private and confidential except in situations that involve domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or otherwise necessitate a duty to warn. 
MFLCs provide support on topics including, but not limited to:

• • Feelings identification
  • Bullying
  • Self-esteem
  • Separation from parents
  • Problem-solving
  • Sibling and parent relationships
  • Time management
  • Deployment and reunification
  • Divorce

Community Support

School supports, enrichment activities, and educational field trips are available for all grades and supported by our community partners.  Field Trips are available for Military Students to participate in. 

Sugarloaf School currently offers the following sports:  Volleyball, Cross Country, Boys and Girls Basketball, Boys and Girls Soccer, Softball and Baseball, Cheerleading, National Junior Honor Society, Student Counsel, Mini-Cheer, Middle School Band, Robotics Competition, Sea Perch Competition, and Safety Patrol.  Please join us!  

More Useful Links:

Information on the school’s student-led transition program: We are pleased to offer a student-led transition program. Elementary and middle school Military Student Ambassadors will give all new military students a campus tour.  Ambassadors will meet students on their first day and guide them through their schedules.  They will introduce your child to other military students and give them the inside scoop on all the clubs and activities.  Our guidance staff will check in with new military students within the first few weeks of their attendance to ensure the new students are acclimating academically, socially, and emotionally. Please contact our Military Family Life Counselor, Amber Mascioli, to be a part of the group or your child’s teacher.

Fleet and Family Readiness: offers information regarding moving, contacting your ombudsman, our local DEERs office, and more!

Military One Source Active duty military resource website: offering 24/7 support for service members, spouses, their families, and survivors on taxes, moving, benefits, non-medical counseling PCS, and more.

Mental Health Services: Fleet and Family Support offers information on the mental health challenges facing military students, including ways to access school-based mental health services.

Work and Family Life (WFL): WFL programs directly support mission readiness by preparing service members and their families for the physical, emotional, interpersonal, and logistical demands of the military lifestyle. Our programs and services include:

• Deployment Readiness Support
• Individual Augmentees Spouse and Family Support
• Ombudsman Program
• Transition Assistance
• Relocation Assistance
• Family Employment
• Personal Financial
• Emergency Response
• Webinar Classes
• Life Skills
• Exceptional Family Member Program

Counseling, Advocacy and Prevention (CAP): CAP programs provide individual, group and family counseling, victim intervention and related prevention education and awareness programs.

• Clinical Counseling
• Sailor Assistance and Intercept for Life (SAIL)
• Family Advocacy Program (FAP)
• New Parent Support Home Visitation Program (NPS-HVP)

Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program (SAPR): Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) provides sexual assault awareness and prevention education, victim advocacy, response coordination, case management and incident data collection to active-duty personnel, adult family members and commands.

Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP): Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP) promotes protective factors and reduces risk factors among individuals, within relationships, and organizations through policies, programs, and practices. Commander, Navy Installations Command’s (CNIC’s) Integrated Primary Prevention Workforce (IPPW) focuses on risk and protective factors that impact two or more harmful behaviors.

Guidance Care Center: The Guidance/Care Center, Inc. (GCC) provides behavioral health services, education, and support to benefit people of all incomes and walks of life, adults, children, and families, persons experiencing issues with mental health and/or substance abuse problems, persons in crisis, adults with serious and persistent mental illness, mothers and fathers working to be better parents and children and youth with behavioral problems.

Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC): The Military Child Education Coalition provides programs and resources to address the unique educational challenges that face military-connected children.

Sesame Street for Military Families: Sesame Street for Military Families offers family support services, kids' learning sites, and other resources for military children, which help all military service families build the skills they need to be resilient.

Military Kids Now 2020 Survey: This report summarizes the initial analysis of the survey results, highlighting trends, challenges, and areas where support is most needed. The depth and richness of the survey results will doubtless lead to further analysis to better understand the needs and challenges of military-connected students, their parents, and the professionals who support them.

Military Child Resources for parents, teachers, and students: Follow this link for essential digital resources for students, parents, education professionals, and influencers. They are available in multiple formats: videos, webinars, and downloadable documents.