This website provides information and guidance on implementing Tier 2 supports. Tier 2 supports refers to the practices and systems that enable targeted interventions for students who are not successful with Tier 1 supports alone. The focus at Tier 2 is supporting students who are at risk for developing more serious unwanted behaviors before they start. Essentially, intervention at this level is more targeted than Tier 1 but less intensive than Tier 3.
When school policies and practices are informed by data, inequities in education can be identified and redressed. This website provides questions and competencies that can be utilized to help your school community build a data culture in your school building.
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Oregon’s Transformative SEL Standards help provide a well-rounded education that teaches to the whole child, builds on their strengths, perspectives, and contributions, and guides the interactions and relationships between students and adults. SEL equips students with the skills needed for
college, career, and life. Transformative SEL Standards help build capacity for strengthening equity-focused school cultures that support student and adult well-being. A focus on Transformative SEL enables students and adults to be affirmed in their identities, where they can develop a sense of agency and belonging, engage in collaborative problem-solving, and deepen their curiosity about the kind of society they want to make a reality.
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning Framework & Standards (Oregon 2023) Read More »
Many educators and administrators have limited prior experience with accommodating transgender and gender-variant youth. This website helps when planning for the best interests of the child, as well as for helping other students, parents, teachers, staff, school boards, and the media understand the circumstances and your school’s response. Their materials are available as both web pages and printable PDFs. You may print, link to, or distribute these documents by mail or electronically (without additions or modifications per their copyright notice).
This is a video series that explains how trauma affects students. The three videos in this series include:
-The Impacts of Trauma on Learning Part 1: Academic Performance
-The Impacts of Trauma on Learning Part 2: Classroom Behavior
-The Impacts of Trauma on Learning Part 3: Relationships
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.'” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
A practical guide to help navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.
Based on our Straight A Safety Improvement Model, these free toolkits for school communities in each active area of focus: Assess, Act and Audit.
The toolkits are designed to facilitate conversations, problem-solving, and partnerships in your school community.
This webinar explores the importance of educators practicing self-care, and help educators understand the science and psychology of self-care, including how educator self-care affects students. Explore a variety of practices and tools and identify practices that work best for you so that you can thrive and really show up every day in your school community.
The Therapist Aid website houses worksheets, audio, scripts and activities that you can search by topics, such as anxiety, depression, anger and trauma. This website requires user registration. Most resources are free but users need an account.
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