Part of the Advancing Racial Justice and Educational Equity Learning Series. Learn from the experience and expertise of Tony Bradburn, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, about fostering inclusive educational environments.
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The six key practices for school transformation are illustrated on this infographic from the Community Schools Forward Framework, informed by both research and practice. The framework shows the integrated nature of the key practices and emphasizes the enabling conditions (i.e., trusting relationships, inclusive decision-making, a shared vision, and actionable data) and supportive infrastructure that must be in place for effective implementation.
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Your health is influenced by a wide range of factors, and the body you were born with is only one of them. Learn about some of the other factors that influence our health and what public health professionals do to address them.
Short video that highlights the voices of trans and gender nonconforming students talking about what they need from schools in order to feel welcome and supported.
This 3-minute video, created from a resource from Chicago Public Schools, provides best practice on how to respond to pushback regarding supporting Transgender, Non-Binary & Gender Non-comforming Students. It provides general examples; however, your responses may vary depending on the relationship you have with the individuals you are communicating with.
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A youth-led organization dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans and gender non-conforming students through advocacy and empowerment. In addition to their focus on creating a more trans-friendly education system, their mission is to educate the public and teach trans activists how to be effective organizers. Justice for trans and gender nonconforming youth is contingent on an intersectional framework of activism. Ending oppression is a long-term process that can only be achieved through collaborative action.
Tip sheet from Lurie Children’s Hospital that provides a shared language and context for the concepts of LGBTQ+ and Gender Inclusive Trainings.
This brief from the Learning Policy Institute highlights lessons learned from New Mexico’s investment in community schools. Drawing on profiles of three sites that received state implementation grants, we find that community schools implementing the key practices at the center of New Mexico’s community schools framework are seeing improvement across a range of indicators, including growth in test scores, increased graduation rates, reduced chronic absence, increased student engagement and connectedness, improved school climate, greater access to mental and physical health care, and stronger family engagement. Key to achieving these outcomes were state investments to support hiring school coordinators and to provide professional development and technical assistance.
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This webinar explores the growing evidence that shows the most effective way to improve school safety is by building supportive school communities that proactively protect against the perpetration of school violence.
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Based on existing research and best practices, the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (Version 2) is designed to support the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs. It is not a blueprint for engagement initiatives, which must be designed to fit the particular contexts in which they are carried out. Instead, the Framework should be seen as a compass, laying out the goals and conditions necessary to chart a path toward effective family engagement efforts that are linked to student achievement and school improvement.
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